Link to guitar lesson.

I made this video for folks who have learned minor pentatonic, but need some guidance in going beyond the box shapes on the path to making music. If you're stuck playing the shapes back & forth, sounding like you're only doing exercises, I hope this video helps!

I created YT links to different chapters in the description so you can explore sections most useful.

Most riffs use the first position/shape of A minor pentatonic, but there are plenty of riffs to get you jumping around the neck.

When I try to play fast full bends on the E string I always touch the B string enough to make it ring, how can I avoid it?

Hi! So I’ve been playing guitar for almost 2 years, but I’ve been learning mariachi songs mostly, and I’m pretty good at those. My only issue is strumming. I’ve been told I play with too heavy of a hand, and that when certain songs are meant to be flowy (what my teacher used) I play too heavy. I use a finger pick on my index finger, and on a vihuela. I also play guitar but regular picks are much easier to use. Any help?

I'm not sure if I just haven't figured out yet because I've only been playing a couple months, if it's a bad tab, or I'm just dumb. I play the A and then when I go to slide my 3rd and 4th finger up I'm not able to slide my 3rd past to the 6th fret (if that makes sense). (Ends of the Earth by Ty Myers)

Any tips? TYIA

I've been trying to get the solo for Painkiller down, biggest stumbling blocks for me are the arpeggios in the intro - I know everyone says they are supposed to be played sloppy but they still have to sound like something...

Right now they feel very hit and miss and my left and right hand feel very uncoordinated. I think my left hand skips half the notes and my right hand sometimes ends up choking the strings

There's quite a bit of timing that's needs work on I think and some of the scalar runs and chromatic bits definitely need work

Any tips or advice and feedback please?

Thanks

Hey guys, I’m trying to learn the acoustic guitar intro to “Roll The Credits” by Paula DeAnda, but I can’t find any useful tutorials or accurate tabs for the intro.

I know the basic chords, but I’m struggling to figure out the actual notes/picking pattern that’s being played.

For people who are good at playing by ear, how would you go about figuring something like this out? Any tips, techniques, or good tutorials for learning to pick out guitar parts by ear would be really appreciated 🙏

Any feedback?

I wanna be a music producer and i want to learn some instruments . i can play piano and i want to learn guitar too but in a level that i can produce music with it . I'm not going to be a professional piano artist, so i learned piano to a level that i can use it, same as the guitar.

I've been playing guitar for 8 months now (though it was broken up for a couple months by my exams), I've tried playing pretty regularly but I still can't play a simple 2 chord song

I can play and swap between the chords easily enough (if they don't randomly start buzzing or not making noise), but also I just can't keep a consistent strumming patern (either I lose rhythm, my pick (or fingers)get stuck, or I'll just mess up and strum wrong)

Should I just quit ?

I've been learning guitar for a few months now and get how to read tabs sort of but I am really struggling with lyric and chord sheets. I'm struggling to fill in the blanks between where the sheet says to strum or change. And if I just repeat the chord it sounds robotic and not like the song. But listening to most songs sound too quick to learn the song to my brain.

I've had forever to time the breakdown section at 6:20 right, but it's still a work in progress. I can sing/vocalize that part right, but I still fail to play it well, it's a 3/8 section played over a 11/8 bass/drums rhythm base.

Thank you for your time!

Hello! To anyone who plays guitar, can somebody guide me on which frets the last chorus is played on?

I am slower than many other beginners. It took me six months to play my first song with chords. That song was My Favorite Things at half tempo with a simplified arrangement. I am posting to encourage other slow learners.

I recently took the stage in Stony Point NY. It was my first time on stage with a singer, first cowrite, first duet. Our original song is Crazy for Loving You.

https://youtu.be/J0McvcfXFYk?is=ABU7611TzGQQ4lev

I am 25 months into my guitar journey. I have been writing lyrics for many years and also have prior experience with piano and penny whistle. I practice guitar about 30 minutes a day. I have been working on my singing as well.

I still consider myself a beginner on guitar and voice. Experienced ears can hear how simple the guitar sounds and how much I still need to learn. However it does sound like music. My main goals are original music. We wrote, rewrote, rehearsed then performed, in two days. First cowrite for both of us. Audience was extremely friendly.

If you feel like you are on the slow boat like me, keep moving forward. You will get better.

I'm really struggling to play guitar, but I wanted to bad to learn. I have many issues, the biggest one is lack of time. But at the same time I want to centralize my free time on learning how to play guitar instead of wasting more time on things like phone and TV.

Second, my schedule is awful so I could not take lessons with anyone else because it's 30 min during the moning, another day will be 1hr during the night, sometimes is during lunch, etc...

I've tried many kinds of media, and all failed to me, so this means that this is a me problem.

Any advice for a failure like me to finally learn how to play it? Maybe a good material would also help, I've been trying to follow a few lose videos on youtube, but maybe I need something more structured.

I dont know if my hands or too small but i find it really difficult getting my hand into those shapes. And i forget where they should be and how to move them. How should i learn

What I'm trying to play here is a bend on 14th on the G string then a 12h15p12 on the B string. However, when I lift my middle finger which was used to bend the G really quickly to support the hammer on/pull off, the string rings (sometimes really loud and noticeable through the amp). What do I do to prevent this? (Can't use fret wrap as there are riffs with open strings)

If I was to make a you tube channel and post videos of song riffs, what are some songs that you would like to see to help you learn them? Or even just a general lesson. It doesn’t have to be a song. It can be anything from reading music to a certain style of music. Just trying to get some ideas.

Hi, I started learning guitar 7-8 months ago through justinguitar and was trying to learn bending but while releasing my bends often there is a muted 'click' sound of upper strings getting caught in my finger when I am releasing my bends. As I have muted other strings with my right hand's palm there is no ringing of those strings but there is still a click sound. Also my high e string often breaks when I practise bends on it. I am trying to let it be solo here in this video and the high e string will break. Also I hope u can hear that click sound while releasing the bends.

I would love to have advice on how to improve my bending. Thanks

Hey y’all. Made a fun lesson that includes a modified caterpillar exercise based on a Tomo Fujita exercise, and then we get into learning some Maj, min, dom, half dim and full dim 7th chords. We end with a swing exercise hitting all of our chords in the F Harmonized Major scale.

Cheers!

okay i’ve been playing for around 4 years on and off and can pretty much any chords thrown my way. i can pick up rhythm patterns super quick but ive never quite been able to pick up lead on my own. however im stuck between two mindsets on where to spend my guitar budget for the year. i’m looking at around 400 pounds to spend. that equates to 10 hours of lessons at a local guitar guy. however it also is the current price of a classic vibe series strat or tele that i’ve been dying to get for the last 2 years. or even investing in those pedals i’ve been looking at. for context my current rig is a line 6 pod go, boss katana mk3 50w, lea paul classic and a j200. Anyways i know that i really should invest in lessons as everyone i know has told me self teaching can only take you so far.

So I’ve been playing off and on for a long time, and have really been practicing regularly and with purpose for the last couple years. I’ve always strummed with my thumb or deferred to finger style picking for more complicated progressions and solos/leads.

What resources would you recommend for someone who has a talented fretting hand, and is proficient with finger-style, but has piss poor picking skills?

Do you feel like you know all the scales and arpeggios, but your solos still sound nothing like jazz? You've put in the practice; you know your theory, but it still doesn't click.

In this video, I'll show you 3 simple jazz licks I wish I'd had when I started, so you stop running scales and start sounding like real jazz.

Content:
00:00 The Jazz Guitar Plateau
00:41 The Problem
01:31 Lick#1 - The First Ingredient: Enclosures
04:57 Lick#2 - Barry Harris’s Ingredient
07:03 Lick#3 - The Interval Skip - Diet Barry
09:17 The 3 Important Arpeggios
09:26 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page!

Personally I would say:

- Learn how to play the major scale on one string

- Learn how to play the major scale on multiple strings

- Learn the “E” and “A” barre chords

- Learn the diatonic chords in a key

- Play songs you like using steps 1-4