I took guitar lessons when I was a teenager but haven't played properly in years, just bought a new acoustic guitar tho
first song I will learn:
Used to play cover songs. I just play now.
Looked up some video lesson on this and it seems pretty accurate to that. The tabs are displayed nicely while he gets straight to the point.
Yeah that's the one I found too
Do you write music now or just dick around? I don't actually think I'm musically creative enough to come up with tunes I haven't heard somewhere before
Do you write music now or just dick around? I don't actually think I'm musically creative enough to come up with tunes I haven't heard somewhere before
Both. I never write them down or record them either, which isn't the best idea cause we can actually forget about songs over a long period of time, then they come back, or sometimes they come back but I've forgotten how to play some of it.
If you're just getting started, there's a powerful finger picking technique you ought to learn. In order for me to learn this, I had to unlearn my previous techniques and retrain my muscle memory to do it. Once the muscle memory sets in we can then pull it off at any speed and we can alter it however we want, This technique enables us to play virtually anything with style or when we apply it to other things, it magically makes it sound better.
I see this technique being used in the video tutorial for Cherry Wine but it's very slow and mild for this one so it's a decent song to start off with if you're to pick up this technique. The same technique is commonly known for Dust in the Wind which is the prefered song to learn this technique. We can identify the technique by how often the bass strings are played. That would be a bass string between every note ( which makes for an active bassline, we needn't alternate between bass though more interesting in my opinion )
The technique I'm referring to is called "Travis Picking" and if you look it up you'll see endless guitarists calling it the ultimate fingerpicking technique.
You'll notice how basic and easy this man makes it out to be, until he actually does something with it while maintaining the simplicity and making it "seem" complicated while adding these spins to it.
Do you write music now or just dick around? I don't actually think I'm musically creative enough to come up with tunes I haven't heard somewhere before
Both. I never write them down or record them either, which isn't the best idea cause we can actually forget about songs over a long period of time, then they come back, or sometimes they come back but I've forgotten how to play some of it.
If you're just getting started, there's a powerful finger picking technique you ought to learn. In order for me to learn this, I had to unlearn my previous techniques and retrain my muscle memory to do it. Once the muscle memory sets in we can then pull it off at any speed and we can alter it however we want, This technique enables us to play virtually anything with style or when we apply it to other things, it magically makes it sound better.
I see this technique being used in the video tutorial for Cherry Wine but it's very slow and mild for this one so it's a decent song to start off with if you're to pick up this technique. The same technique is commonly known for Dust in the Wind which is the prefered song to learn this technique. We can identify the technique by how often the bass strings are played. That would be a bass string between every note ( which makes for an active bassline, we needn't alternate between bass though more interesting in my opinion )
The technique I'm referring to is called "Travis Picking" and if you look it up you'll see endless guitarists calling it the ultimate fingerpicking technique.
You'll notice how basic and easy this man makes it out to be, until he actually does something with it while maintaining the simplicity and making it "seem" complicated while adding these spins to it.
Interesting, thanks for the advise
I did take lessons when I was younger but I don't really remember what we were taught as far as picking techniques go. Thought it seems familiar so far with cherry wine so maybe I did start learning the Travis technique before
I will look up dust in the wind too
chai said:I don't actually think I'm musically creative enough to come up with tunes I haven't heard somewhere before
I had a similar issue many years ago, I'd spent so many years playing other peoples songs that anytime I would go to write something myself all that would come out is slight alterations of existing parts of music that I had learnt or heard in the past
I changed the tuning I played in from EADGBE to CGCGCE (aka Open C). This made it such that anything I previously knew how to play could now not be played. It forces creativity. Now I have maybe 15 full songs written and recorded in open C and hundreds of melodies or segments
Give it a try, you might be surprised at how creative you can become with a simple change of tuning
chai said:I don't actually think I'm musically creative enough to come up with tunes I haven't heard somewhere beforeI had a similar issue many years ago, I'd spent so many years playing other peoples songs that anytime I would go to write something myself all that would come out is slight alterations of existing parts of music that I had learnt or heard in the past
I changed the tuning I played in from EADGBE to CGCGCE (aka Open C). This made it such that anything I previously knew how to play could now not be played. It forces creativity. Now I have maybe 15 full songs written and recorded in open C and hundreds of melodies or segments
Give it a try, you might be surprised at how creative you can become with a simple change of tuning
I might try this thanks
But first I want to get better at playing again by learning other songs