andy.anderson Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Hey! I'm new to this forum. I'm actually developing a product that has to do with learning the guitar quickly and easily. I want to make sure I cover all the biggest questions for beginners. Who here wants a free copy of the product? All you have to do is give me your questions about learning to play guitar and I'll give you my product when it comes out. No strings attached. Simply go here: http://www.guitarsecretsfornewbies.com/biggestguitarquestion.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 How can I sound like Slash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 How can I sound like Slash? can i play like slash in two weeks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbreslauer Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 i get asked about investing in an instrument: people seem to be ashamed to buy "too good" a guitar when just starting out. "i'll buy a good one when i learn to play." :) i always say get the best instrument that you can reasonably afford. i also recommend electric, but that is just because i find them easier on the fingers, and therefore less frustrating at first. my 2c. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Why the @()*^#$* can I not play like Roy Clark? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Why didn't mommy love me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Cause she was loving Roy Clark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krock Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I wanna be the very best Like no one ever was Sorry for using the pokemon lyrics. Just popped into my head. but yer that sums it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 what are these dots on the stringy long wood thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Cause she was loving Roy Clark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 My biggest wonder when I was a n00b at guitar was...... WHEN THE HELL MY FINGER TIPS WOULD STOP HURTING!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 My biggest wonder when I was a n00b at guitar was...... WHEN THE HELL MY FINGER TIPS WOULD STOP HURTING!!! Hell, I STILL wonder that! LOL Calluses don't seem to form as fast, as they used to, or last as long, either. ;>b CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Is there an easy way to learn the fretboard and scales? Unfortunately there isn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 why does everyone have to learn the intro to stairway to heaven?...boring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 why does everyone have to learn the intro to stairway to heaven?...boring Most guitar player actually play it incorrectly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Most guitar player actually play it incorrectly you mean by not making mistakes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 you mean by not making mistakes? Yep... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidl Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Aside from sore fingers (which eventually goes away), was making your fingers move in ways they never had before. And barring chords of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WahKeen Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Upon learning the first chord, "Where are the chicks?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 ..... WHEN THE HELL MY FINGER TIPS WOULD STOP HURTING!!! D*mn, that was all I had, Duane, and you beat me to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Actually I did a piece for a website about Duane V's perfect response to the biggest beginner question I've come across. It's also the biggest question for folks who've laid off playing for years and years. The solution is partly a quality guitar, but a beginner doesn't know what constitutes quality and frankly, you can get a $6,000 Gibson set up for heavy strings and a relatively high action for a certain kind of playing that will kill the interest of today's average beginner. So... regardless, I'd say the question should be couched along the lines of "How do I get an affordable guitar that won't hurt my fingers so much like everybody tells me will happen." There are many possible answers to that which probably are equally valid. Some I'd probably agree with, some I probably wouldn't - and the same holds true for others with some experience teaching beginners in various styles. A guitar teacher can help, literally with a trip to a large guitar store where many instruments may be held and tried along with a true lesson on the different types and how they may be played. A not so good case is a trip to a large guitar store and discussion with a sales person who seems knowledgeable and "nice" and willing to help so he/she will have a customer for other stuff next month. A good and truly caring sales person will help keep things on budget and offer several attractive options within that - plus ensuring there's a good setup. As to beginning practice on any guitar, I prefer variations of "gentle playing, relatively low action and light strings with no session lasting longer than 15 minutes and not resuming until fingertip tingling quits; then longer and longer time periods." The next question is probably "how do I tune my guitar." Again, there is a knowledge fork to follow. Someone with some music experience will know something of tuning to a piano, etc. When I started, I was 18, had been playing music "all my life," and just needed to remember which strings had which names. (That is, of course, the politically incorrect mnemonic, "Every American Daughter Gets Babies Eagerly.") After that point, though, there are a thousand "proper" ways to learn, depending both on the style of playing and music emphasized and the goals of the player. Frankly the guy who just wants to back up his singing for a summer camp probably needs some basic chords, some promotion of the concept of a barre chord, and elementary transposition. The guy who wants to be Segovia has a rather harder road ahead in an entirely different curriculum concept. For me to say, "you gotta be like this" probably will scare him/her off. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I'm gonna use that Every American Daughter thing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 My question very young was; " Every guy has his girl, if I learn guitar, will I have my pick ? " 40 years later, I still have my pick................:unsure: ..................... .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 40 years later, I still have my pick................:unsure: ..................... .......... And a Hello Kitty pick for good measure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 And a Hello Kitty pick for good measure Indeed Duane........I actually FRAMED IT !!! [thumbup] ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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