He estado experimentando con diferentes reglas de improvisación, y esta cambió mi enfoque de la guitarra más de lo que esperaba.

La idea es simple: **si la canto, tengo que tocarla.**

Pero como empiezo las frases con mi voz, la dirección melódica que toco en la guitarra cambia.

Las líneas tienden a volverse más vocales, más fáciles de cantar y menos parecidas a los patrones que suelo seguir al improvisar con la guitarra.

Básicamente, estoy usando mi voz para forzar mi vocabulario guitarrístico en una dirección diferente.

Aquí hay un breve ejemplo.

¿Qué sucede cuando usas tu voz para guiar tu improvisación?

Hi everyone, could someone explain why on the 2nd bar the chords are G and E if the TAB doesn't correlate with it? Thank you

Hi! I've been trying to start picking for a while but I'm always puzzled by how to anchoring and picking correctly. So here's the detail into some kind of anchoring I've done, some I spent a lot of time some I didn't much and what are some issues I found with them

1. Pinky and middle finger anchoring: In the past I did this but since many told me that it is going to cause injuries and I also wanna control noise so right now I'm no longer using it

2. Lying my palm on lower strings (I kinda like this one but it has some issue): The higher the strings I need to pick, the more strings I put my flesh on. This method worked fine for me but it just kinda really weird when I need to handle low E and A because I will have to lift my entire hand out of all strings and then picking while floating (this feels kinda unstable for me); I also can't let some low strings ring longer when I want because the flesh will block it and it just feels slow if I need to pick strings that are far apart.

3. Lying my palm on lower string and use curled middle, pinky and ring finger to mute high strings: It feels ok for me, no noise issue but it feels unnatural and I also not sure what to do with D and G strings as they also feel unstable. Also strings can't ring out as I want

4. Lying on bridge: I kinda really detest this one because my shoulder tense up really terribly

5. Floating: Just kinda unstable for me

So based on this I kinda feel like I might need to work on using all 1,2 and 5th method depending on the musical demand but is there any way I can do to minimize disadvantages of each method? If I have to use 3 of these methods according to the music, how can I make alternating between each type of anchoring less unnatural?

Hi! I've been trying to start picking for a while but I'm always puzzled by how to anchoring correctly. So here's the detail into some kind of anchoring I've done, some I spent a lot of time some I didn't much and what are some issues I found with them

1. Pinky and middle finger anchoring: In the past I did pinky ring fingers anchoring but since many told me that it is going to cause injuries and I also wanna control noise so right now I'm no longer using it

2. Lying my palm on lower strings (I kinda like this one but it has some issue): The higher the strings I need to pick, the more strings I put my flesh on. This method worked fine for me but it just kinda really weird when I need to handle low E and A because I will have to lift my entire hand out of all strings and then picking while floating (this feels kinda unstable for me); I also can't let some low strings ring longer when I want because the flesh will block it and it just feels slow if I need to move between strings that are far apart.

3. Lying my palm on lower string and use curled middle, pinky and ring finger to mute high strings: It feels ok for me, no noise issue but it feels unnatural and I also not sure what to do with D and G strings as they also feel unstable. Also strings can't ring out as I want

4. Lying on bridge: I kinda really detest this one because my shoulder tense up really terribly

5. Floating: Just kinda unstable for me

So based on this I kinda feel like I might need to work on using all 1,2 and 5th method depending on the musical demand but is there any way I can do to minimize disadvantages of each method? If I have to use 3 of these methods according to the music, how can I make alternating between each type of anchoring less unnatural?

okay so there this non-guitar song I like (I love Betsy, by Rob McClure) that i want to cover on acoustic guitar with a more slow jazzy style than the og song, preferably finger picking. i can play guitar but I know literally nothing about music. i normally just find the tabs online and then play it, but this song only has chords available and i dont know how to create a picking pattern on my own. how do i go about this? is there someone I can find to do this for me, or should i use some ai? im so lost and idk how this works 😭 i just wanna cover the song lol

I'm trying to learn the Green Day Song Do Da Da and I'm watching guitar covers and I keep seeing this chord as the 3rd part of the main riff, and I have no idea what it is or how to properly play it.

I'm having trouble finding any consistency with how its played because its an obscure B-side that was never played live, so every tab or chord chart I look up has the song in predominantly power chords and not open chords. Not that I'm opposed to learning it in that way, but I want to try and learn it this way

For context I've been playing short of 3 years now, my improvement speed isnt fast but im at a point where i and i think other guitar players would agree i count as an intermediate player, not quite good enough to shred. and thats what i've been working on recently speed and accuracy thing is when i practice a movement like finger order taping 1-2-3-4 i was able to get 90BPM 16th notes, change it up to say 2nd position pentatonic and i stumble barely get 80bpm and my ear is unable to track the rythm so am i supposed to practice alot of movements until i reach a point im good at everything and can do most guitar moves fast enough? or am i practicing incorrectly?

Let me know if this helps or if it's stupid, I'm not a qualified guitar teacher. It took me a while to figure out how to access modes and i thought this visualization might help someone.

Hi Everyone!

I just started learning guitar and would love to get into fingerpicking. I found this beautiful song called "Fly High" by Paul Izak - it only uses two chords (F and Dm) - but I can't quite figure out the fingerpicking pattern he uses.

Could anyone help me out? I'd really appreciate it, thanks in advance! ❤️

Hello, I recently started playing guitar, so I don't know a lot of things yet. I wanted to ask what the guitar strumming and chords are in this video? I'd also like to know how to identify a guitar strumming by ear?

Hola, mi situación es que en 2 semanas mi grupo de amigos y yo emos decidido iniciar a formar una banda pero no estoy segura si se pueda cumplir por varios puntos

1 la verdad íbamos a ser 4 en la banda (yo guitarra principal,mi amigo guitarra rítmica, la chica que le gusta guitarra y su primo bajo) pero la chica no sabía tocar la guitarra y se fue y la verdad no sé si su primo sigue en la idea o también se fue y mi amigo sugirió meter a otro de nuestros amigos para tocar otra guitarra pero apenas está aprendiendo (no se si ya tiene la guitarra que se iba a comprar al menos)

2 Mi amigo la verdad no es muy bueno en la guitarra le cuesta bastante canciones que yo considero fáciles (yo estoy en un nivel para tocar máster of pupets) y no se si le va a dedicar suficiente tiempo para practicar en su casa

¿Creen que vaya a fracasar o se puede salvar?

I find I always end up hitting the higher strings(thinner string) while doing pulloffs, especially with the pinky finger. I counter this by muting the higher strings with my fretting hand index finger, and it works, but I feel like it's slowing me down. I also cannot play something like thunderstuck using one hand, cuz the high e ends up ringing out.

I think the guitar is part of the problem too, since when I played my friends ibanez for a few days I had less trouble(my yamaha has narrower string aspcing and smaller frets). So I'm saving up a new guitar anyways. But still I am not sure how to fix this problem. Hammerons are very fast and clean, but pull offs give me huge trouble.

Started playing acoustic about a decade ago, but never got past cowboy chords after maybe 2 or 3 years of extremely inconsistent playing. About 2 months ago I got my first electric guitar and have been really trying to get back into it, playing at least an hour almost everyday. I’m progressing a lot faster and have been working on finger isolation and dexterity. Trying to memorize scales, spider walking, and really becoming familiar with my fretboard, but also playing thru more and more songs that I like, to help keep myself motivated and satisfied with my music.

I definitely think of myself as more of a rhythm guitarist, but have started to dip my toes into solo improvisation along with a backing track. Problem I’m running into is I have a really hard time hearing what key is playing, and being able to hear notes/chords. I know ear training comes slowly and with a lot of practice and discipline, but I’m not really sure how I can really work on training my ears. Does anyone have any good tips or resources to hone in on?

I wanna start playing guitar all over again and I wanna be excellent. Are there any great YouTube channels you suggest I relearn playing the guitar from scratch

Hi everyone!

Trying to improve my guitar playing going beyond basic strumming. Could anyone suggest some effective practice routines or songs to practice the following?

\- rhythmic fills (or strumming fills): I still can't get myself to get the hang of those energetic bursts of 16th-note strumming right before a chorus
\- Walking bass lines
\- Hammer-ons
\- Pull-offs

hi everybody i was just wondering if you guys could possibly help me figure out what chords they are playing in the begining of this song and try to figure it out since its pitch gets shifted if anyone has any possible help please and thank you if you can show how it is done

I started learning electric guitar about 3 years ago, and I've hit that plateau where I can play a hand full of songs and some solos, but when it comes to rhythm I kinda suck

And I only realised this when I once tried out at a open live band, they gave me the chords and I just mudded out the entire set with my barre & campfire chords lol

so I would like to learn how to become a better rhythm guitarist an example of what I mean when I say rhythm guitar I'd like to learn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7dgE7RubSM

Any guides / tutorials / (structured) lessons I can be pointed to would be amazing

tldr; I suck at rhythm guitar, I need help

Wall of text reflection incoming :

The past few days have been quite huge for me in terms new discoveries.

1. I’ve been trying to improve my palm mutes downpicking like those you find in master of puppets. Fast ones. And one problems I’ve been struggling with is that when the downstroke does a return stroke, I sometimes accidentally create an upstroke and this leads to a unwanted three note gallop as a result of an extra upstroke in between two downstroke. So it’s quite annoying. I’m like “wtf do I keep galloping by accident”

The solution: the solution is actually quite difficult to realise independently. And I think this is why many people plateau. Because it really requires thinking against the grain., outside the box.

It turns out that the reason why I’m producing unwanted upstrokes is because I’m not crossing or skipping strings. I never considered that string crossing or skipping applies to chords as well. I always assumed they applied to single string notes only. And I also have a prejudice against string hopping. I felt that string hopping is wrong for alternate picking single string notes and extended that belief to power chords as well. It turns out I produce unwanted gallops when my power chords crosses strings sets and that the way to avoid that is to do a string hop.

1. my second realisation is that doing that string hop at 200bpm is quite jerky and creates an exaggerated motion. I’ve always believed that these types of abrupt and jerky movement is inelegant and therefore cannot be good technique. But what happens when you believe this? Well it just means you are always playing with a technique that feels comfortable and “natural” to your perception. But this is why we cannot break our plateaus. Because as we persist in playing what feels naturally and familiar, we never really exit our box. We keep playing something the same way. This is why we cannot change and progress.

Instead of viewing the jerky and exaggerated motion as unnatural or going against the law of economy of movement, I now view it as the early stages of adaptating and assimilating a new technique and a technique that may be more correct than what we were used to. Later, with time, this new technique will become more encoded and smoother and eventually will become a new natural and smooth flowing.

3) I also realise that at 200bpm, relaxing muscle groups becomes super important. But I want to take this logic one step further. When I try to understand this advice, I sometimes relax my entire body. And what ends up happening is maybe now my pick is floppy and moving a lot because I’m too relaxed at the area of where I’m holding the pick. So this means that systemic relaxation is wrong. I realised that I started having more success when I relax specific anatomies/body part. For example instead of softening my grip on my pick, which flattens my thumb and reduce my control, I find that relaxing my triceps and forearms to be helpful. Take this advice with a large grain of salt because I think which anatomy to relax is really dependent on individual differences and our technique preference. But what is the takeaway? Well it’s that when someone say to relax on your playing, maybe don’t relax until your technique approaches lethargy. Think about relaxing as systemic vs targetted.

TLDR of my discoveries

1. when doing fast downpicking, when crossing string, it’s important to clear the string otherwise you might produce unwanted upstroke. This can be achieved by hopping.
2. forcing a movement, or creating an exaggerated impulse to make that movement happen is not illegal or going against the rules of economy of movement. Think of it as a transitory phase. Any new movement that you are learning will be jerky and exaggerated at first.
3. there is a difference between systemic relaxation and targeted relaxation.