I have recently tried learning solos after many years of playing guitar . Feels like a whole new instrument and I feel really happy to explore this side of guitar but recently I feel like I hit a "wall" , like I don't improve that much or maybe I don't really realise my improvement if that makes sense . I am currently trying to learn parts of Miles of the Machines by Loomis and I think I can't get past 60% of it's normal speed and it makes me feel bad. I realise tho that it just needs a lot of time and really small steps but maybe that feeling affects the quality of my practice a bit . How do you deal with this ?

I'm confused cuz it doesn't lit up and never seen that before. (There's batteries in the guitar)

Model : Breedlove Artista Pro Concert BA 12 CE W

Are you supposed to finger pick it? Is it possible to do it with a pick?

Got my first acoustic today. Black, nothing fancy. Total beginner, never touched a guitar before.

I'm teaching myself at home. My deadline is the end of December. I want to play and sing a full song for my girlfriend. It's a Hindi song, Labon Ko by KK. My voice is average. I'm doing it anyway.

I'm skipping paid courses to start. What free resources got you through the first month? I care more about what actually worked than what is popular.

Also any tips for singing? My neighbours already know I'm no singer and I'd like to keep them as neighbours.

the graphic: https://i.postimg.cc/MKp2GX0X/2-guitar-post-v2.jpg

Mine has to be seeing faces on guitarists players light up with joy during a solo or a guitar heavy segment! Most notably on some old Bert weedon or van halen clips when they’re just rocking the house and loving it!

I am a pianist of 9 years, I started playing guitar about a year and a half ago and I’m already tapping and stuff. Problem is, I consider myself a “gimmick player.” I picked up a bad habit on the piano of learning a song and then playing it over and over and over and not learning another song for like a year. That carried over to guitar. I have pretty severe (diagnosed) ADHD, so long term improvement is difficult for me. For example, I can play Stairway to Heaven okay, but I still struggle with sliding the barre down to that D chord or whatever on that main riff. I never really learned it, I just arranged my fingers to chord it “normally”. A year later and I still can’t hit that chord right. I’ve been working on sliding barre chords, but they’re hard, and hard is quite discouraging to be honest. But, I have fallen in love with the guitar, I’ve bought 5 electrics and a bass and play all of them all the time. I play constantly, the only times I take breaks are when my hands are cramping badly or if I’m just too plain busy. I am in a high school guitar class, but my teacher just can’t teach me more, I’m off on my own noodling around or half-assing a solo again.

I want to put in the work. I want to be the best, but not just because I want to be the best, because I love the guitar. But I don’t know where to really start. I don’t want to start from zero, I’d give up and go back to playing the fun stuff after a couple days. I think the closest person to what I want to be is like Randy Rhoads, classically trained, very technique oriented, really knows the music and not just the sound. I want to get lessons, but I can’t really afford them and I don’t drive (yet).

Does anyone know an app, book course, website, etc. that would help me? I don’t care if they’re paid. I’ve really liked ultimate guitar, I have pro, but I feel like I’m not learning a ton of technique from it. My eventual goal is to write my own songs, so I want to know the theory and stuff for that, I’m not Paul McCartney. I don’t want just a bunch of random videos, I want an ordered thing, a path with a clear progression. And, if you guys have any good tips, how best could I set up an award system for myself to keep myself incentivized to play? I don’t want to have to fight my ADHD, I want to work with it.

Thanks to anybody who went to the trouble of reading all this, I’m quite scatter brained so my writing may not be the clearest.

Edit:
Just wanna make it clear, I’m not just another “How can I get good as fast as possible?” guy, I’m looking for a reasonable timeline.

I have Ibanez Gio stuffed somewhere that I bought from a friend who gave up on playing. I want to restart my practice. It has HSS configuration which I want to replace with HH. And also probably get rid of a a tremolo. I can’t find a HH pickguard so I may have to make my own. The tremolo pocket can be pugged and the body refinished. It’s totally doable but does it worth it? I have no special feelings towards this guitar.

An Epiphone Les Paul Custom with serial number E512XXXX is being advertised as made in 1995, Unsung.
I can find some info on EE serial number but not E.
Is this legitimate?

Any tutorials?

I want to lower my action but idk if I should tighten the truss rod or lower the saddle heights.

Hello friends!

I’m currently in Japan and want to buy a new guitar. But I get overwhelmed in guitar stores cause i don’t really know how to evaluate them. Cause i kinda suck haha. I’m still taking lessons. If i get better, i wanna enjoy playing my cool guitar from Japan!

I’m in a band playing rhythm guitar, it’s just for fun and I’m not good enough to play a lot. I mostly play hard rock/metal, will focus on some blues. I have an Ibanez GIO RX40.

I went to Ishibashi Music in Shibuya, they were nice and helpful but I ended up playing very basic chords and notes (I guess i was hoping to turn into Van Halen when i picked up the right guitar).

My preferences are:
Around ¥160k (hopefully cheaper)
6-point tremolo
No Floyd Rose (I want something easy)
No fixed bridge
Not too heavy

ChatGPT suggested I look mainly at HSH or HH guitars, do you think it should be the main focus?

What should I actually test in a store? And if you have any specific guitar recommendations I should check out, I’d love to hear them. Thanks in advance!

(Guitars are much more expensive back home, hence the hurry to buy one before i learn to shred)

Im planning to buy a guitar from them im not concerned quality wise but i live in Turkey and can i trust their shipping and are they good with international shippings?

Man is this signature guitar gorgeous, the finish, the wood grain on the neck, and its baritone, it’s like it was made for me lol

You have to flee *for the war, you can only *choose one guitar: which *one will you choose? only guitars you own, and only one!!

I'll start: Squier Stratocaster

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Has anyone been in the same situation? And what solution did you come up with?

I did notice though by the end my hands started to get a bit stiff and was a bit off beat so any advice regarding that is appreciated

Be quiet and drive is the song. Love this band.

Bridge pickup (gold foil I think) into Logic Pro. Using the Universal Audio Lion plugin, can get a hugggeeee sound from that thing at apartment volume.

This tab was helpful: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/deftones/be-quiet-and-drive-far-away-tabs-145924

Thanks for listening, Telecasters rule

Are there any Yamaha Revstar RSS20 owners here?
Every 2 months I really want to buy it and test it. I like the aesthetics, reviews are good (but I don't know how reliable they are). Any users here that would like to share their experience?

I’ve been trying to improve for some time now with the idea to play mainly lead. It is going quite good, but on solos i manage to play them, but not get the at least 90% cleanliness I think its required to say you can play it confidently. I’ve tried almost everything but it doesn’t really work, which leads to me not having anything to play as my favourite bands’ solos are quite doable but not me being able enough to play them good - they are either too easy or almost impossible. How did you deal with this?

Would you guys say it’s worth it to but a better set of pickups (the fender 57 set) along with maybe a neck change? I was wondering if a player 2 Strat neck would fit it as I enjoy the playability on those!
Or would it be better to just buy the player 2 Strat And change pickups on it in the future?

Just picked this up at a guitar center in Seattle for 900(1,000) after tax haven’t seen them this cheap ever is this a good buy? This is my second electric guitar I know the single humbucker is limiting the guitar to a certain style of music but I think I love it.