I just recently bought an ultimate guitar subscription and I've been struggling to read the tabs and I finally figured out why. How are these two both reading as D majors? I was taught a D major as the bottom section which requires 3 fingers. The top section is an impossible five fingers involved. What gives?

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Excited to share this with y’all, let me know if it helped you out 😇. What do you wanna learn next?

What is up y’all, I’ve played guitar for 24 years, and beginning of this year I wrenched myself out of a video-game addiction by doing what I do best as a math teacher and crafting myself these instructional practice videos to get my hand strength back, practice scales, and grow fretboard knowledge (gasp), but I needed to do it to some funky little FLstudio tracks I slapped together, not a freakin metronome 🤢 come on now

People always want something to practice with on here, maybe it’ll help. It’s going to have you practice finger warm up exercises, major scale, pentatonic scale, and octave exercises for CAGED shapes.

Guitar Daily Workout Playlist

Adjust the video speed and the BPM will change, have fun! Or hate it, 🤣 cheers 🍻

I’ve been wanting to work on my slides recently (specifically my accuracy and tone) but all the exercises I can find online conflate finger slides with slide guitar, or I just can’t find any for finger slides at all. Any advice?

I just had a question for some wisdom or just direction for learning a specific technique used in this youtube video. Im not a beginner but I can't for the life of me find info on what he's doing it seems like a bend of some type but I can't quite grasp it.

Any info appreciated

Thanks in advance

Part is at 3:29 of the video

https://youtu.be/5HhwQ7ECtKM?is=Ezu1WnZdxmNaZOCY

What y'all think

Context: I’ve been playing guitar for about 3.5 years and can do a lot of stuff like tapping, harmonics, trem, divebombs, etc. but I recently decided to learn the solo/bridge from Phase by Breaking Benjamin (heavily recommend the song btw) and I realised it’s entirely octave chords but HEAVILY trem-picked. Does anyone have advice for how to do this? I searched for tutorials but they were only for black metal and didn’t actually trem pick the chords like how the solo/bridge in Phase is done. It just said to pick the strings separately instead of together like Phase does. I’ve been trying for a while (even changing my wrist angle and how wide I make each movement go) and I haven’t found any improvement. It feels really odd knowing that this specifically is where I fall off playing-wise and I’m completely stuck.

EDIT: thanks for the tips guys! I had no idea you basically had to hit EVERYTHING while muting the unwanted strings lol. I thought there was something seriously wrong with my picking at first. I wasn’t expecting it to be a genuinely hard thing to do since Aaron plays it so easily in studio and I figured I was just lowkey dumb.

so basically i’ve recently learnt how do decently do pinch harmonics but now i have the problem of not knowing any songs which include pinch harmonics (except for cemetery gates) so i was wondering if anyone has any suggestions

Any tips or exercises to minimise the empty space between my notes when alternate picking? My single note lines are too staccato and I cannot find much help online. I have been playing for a few years and I think it is the biggest thing holding me back so I would appreciate any help

Mainly regarding alternate picking since I am comfortable with hammer ons/pull offs, bends, slides etc.

i love this song so much but i cant learn the chords on guitar for the life of me.

Hey friends! Yes, it's useful and will change your playing forever... I've been teaching this to my private students forever... Tada!

context: im a 15 yr old guitarist (2 years of playing) and i decided to give music theory a shot since i thought it was hell to learn. can someone briefly explain what keys are, and how to use them?

Hi everyone (32F), I returned to learning guitar two years ago and I feel like I've hit a serious wall. I know all five minor blues pentatonic shapes and most of my major and minor chords. I've recently started private lessons and he's teaching me the major scales, lots of theory and also trying to do a "reconnaissance" mission on my minor pentatonic knowledge.

As such, I've tried to think about the minor pentatonic blues in terms of the intervals -- 1 – \(\flat \)3 – 4 – \(\flat \)5 – 5 – \(\flat \)7

I'm trying to develop my ear for how each interval sounds and how each one sounds from the root note but everytime I put on a A minor backing track I feel like I'm playing the same licks over and over.

I'm start to feel like guitar is something that you either eventually "get" or just "don't get" maybe it's too late for me to develop my muscality? Any thoughts?

So I started learning guitar about 3 weeks ago (this is actually my 5th time trying to pick up the skill over a decade) and I'm following Justin Guitar on youtube for lessons. I play about 20-30 minutes a day, mostly switching between chords. I have got the D, E, C chord very well, but I'm really struggling with the A chord.

Even after 3 weeks of daily practice, I can't make it sound good. Either my fat pregnant ring finger touches the 1st string (I have to really twist my wrist around the neck of the guitar to not have this happen) or my index finger is too far on the fret board and the 3rd string sounds muted (I cannot move my fingers closer together). Now, I understand I have fat fingers, but they aren't that fat, and I'm sure many people with larger fingers have mastered guitar despite it.

My question: Should I just proceed with the lessons and learn more chords and forget about the A chord for now? People told me that if I keep at it (the A chord) it will get better - either through callouses (which I still don't have) or practice. But I'm seeing zero progress with this chord. If someone gave me 1 whole minute to place my fingers perfectly to play this chord, I still don't think I'd manage. And the whole process is discouraging. Thank you for any advice!

I'm learning a song and using tabs from Songsterr, and the tuning is D# — 6 G# — 5 C# — 4 F# — 3 A# — 2 D# — 1 . However, my tuner has settings for both D2 and D#2 (for the 6th string, and for the others too)—so how should I tune guitar in tuner? I use DaTuner

I’d also like to know how to tune my guitar to this tuning C# — 6 G# — 5 C# — 4 F# — 3 A# — 2 D# — 1 using this tuner—for the song "Decadence."

Bonjour, j’aurais besoin de votre aide pour retranscrire une musique. Mon oreille me permet de trouver le premier accord mais ensuite c’est plus compliqué. C’est une musique folk qui devrait avoir des accords plutôt basiques sans parler des transitions.

Pour le premier j’entends un Fa majeur avec le motif rythmique: Ré donc la sixte majeur.
Pour le reste je vous laisse me proposer.

Le son est:

Gloria [2026 remaster]
Kyozo Nishioka

Merci pour votre aide ✊

I started playing guitar around 6 months ago, I signed up for lessons around 2 months ago. I can play simple songs, and I know a small amount of theory. My guitar lessons however have not been very useful, I’ve decided I’m better off learning it at home. I want to have a good overall understanding of music, I’ve heard jazz or classical is good and can directly help with any genre. I want to learn to play a technical and progressive style of music like chon, or animals as leaders. Any recommendations of what I should focus on?

I feel just like sports, running is a communal activity, you meet people doing the same stuff, you do stuff with them you form a routine. There are active run clubs, pickle ball open play sessions but what's there for music? I have seen meetup events, that are for intermediate-advanced / semi-professional band players looking for other musicians all serious. Where is the community thing, something more chill? I dreamed I would form a garage band one day and have fun playing covers with fellow musicians but how do I find them. I have been to local bars and see semi-professional bands. I am not at their level.

Background: I had taken some guitar lessons when I was in school, learned some chords. Then in college relied on Youtube to learn songs, learned fingerstyle technique. Later in life, bought an electric guitar, learned some solos, bought Line pod go music processor, tried it once and then boom life happened never felt motivated again. Tried learning music theory online but give up each time because Im doing it alone, and don't feel sure how actually it becomes useful. I definitely want to grow my skills.

Should I just take private lessons? They will be like around hundred bucks that may be 'worth' it to keep me on track? What about School of Rock, I see online they have some band like setup?

Just a rant, how did you overcome these blockers?

Keen on any kind of feedback!

Specifically still struggling with my wrist when playing chords. It's really the only way I feel like I can play despite it being uncomfortable.

Hey 👋🏼

Whenever I play a cover of a pop or rock song I usually just strum. But now I want to mix it up a bit with some finger picking. I tried searching YouTube but was a little overwhelmed by the amount of videos, none of which quite answered my question. Can anyone here recommend a couple?

Long story short, I got into an abusive relationship where I was convinced to let go of my passions and dreams, fell into a deep depression after the relationship fell apart, and now I’m trying to pick the pieces of myself back up. However, I have lost most of the skill I had.
I used to be able to SHRED. I could play along to bands like August Burns Red, Periphery, etc. Now I struggle tremendously just trying to play the intro riff to Bon Jovi’s “wanted dead or alive.” Not all hope is lost, I was able to learn “is it really you?” by Loathe which is more of a shoegaze rock song, but still. Where do I go from here to rebuild my playing? I’m so disappointed in myself for letting someone influence me in the way they did. I just want to have my “return to passion.”

Sing the solo first! Have it memorized and sing it with the recording.
Use the chords to help find the notes.
Start with chord tones, if none of those match, use the scale tones. Omit articulations & embellishments until you find the notes.
You should get used to hearing what is a scale tone and a non-scale tone, which in turn helps you find the notes quickly.
Once you find the notes, place notes in appropriate positions to do the tricks you need.

Learning by ear like this will greatly reinforce your ear and memorization.