I just keep playing the same shit. I can write riffs, but not songs, and the instrument is starting to not be as fun. I just got my IC400 back from the Luthier and it plays like a dream but I still play a lot more drums now because they're just so easy to improvise stuff on. My original goal on guitar was just being able to improvise and play what's in my head. I'm closer than I was, like, a year ago and I am improving, but it's still very frustrating. It's not as instantly rewarding as drums are.

Anyone else know what I'm saying? Any tips on what to learn to better improvise? I know all the basic chord shapes and the c major scale, some phrygian, and the most difficult stuff I can play are opeth licks and some solos. Can't write like them of course but that's not the goal. I just wanna be able to pick up this instrument and play something original that wasn't entirely written by someone else. I don't care if the chord progression or strum pattern is stolen, I just wanna make something, but for some reason I just keep noodling.

If you are/were in the same boat, any tips are very appreciated, thank you :)

Cheers

I am a somewhat long time intermediate/decent guitarist and one of my friends recently asked me to teach him guitar, I'm wondering what do I teach him first?

I think chords and scales and theory are very important but really I don't want him to get bored/frustrated and quit

Any advice welcome thanks !

Hey guys, I've been building my YouTube guitar lesson channel and adding to my Beginner Blues Guitar Lesson playlist... lots of great content (more coming). I hope it helps! Thanks for your support in growing my channel (I've been teaching most of my life but the youtube adventure is new, and the algo can be a cruel mistress, haha!)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlPgfl4MF4tozJAqule-2iQuQYf_r2GJj

Identify strumming pattern for Godspeed - Quinn XCII

Hi everyone, i'm starting and i'd like to know some YouTube channels to teach me the basics, i'm currently struggling with strumming pattern, so that's it, thank u!

What are good electric guitar strings for starting out?

TYIA

The Grateful Dead catalog is, in my opinion, the best vehicle for learning guitar. So many genres, improvisational rhythms and leads… who’s with me? 💀🎸

I’m honestly starting to get bored playing songs made by other people. I want to start making my own music. Where do I start? How do I start?

I have found an electric guitar I really like the look of and it’s only £100 on Facebook. Great condition. The guitar is a. Lag arkane series A66 and I was wandering if it is actually any good considering how cheap it’s going for. Thank you

The music sheet says capo 2, but also says 6-D. Does that mean drop d tuning then use capo on second fret? It sounds awful. Does it mean normal tuning then keep the capo off the 6th string and just drop it down to D? I’m so confused.

hi guys, I really need your advice cuz i’ve been trying for a while to make a song and i have everything sit up but i can’t play and sing at the same time, it’s been about 2 years since i started playing on the guitar but i’ve never thought about the idea of singing and playing at the same time cuz most of my fav songs are just melodies, so please if anyone have anything that could help like a method or like an exercise please tell me , that would mean a lot to me.🙏🏻

Dear you,

Whenever you think you're not good enough and maybe haven't made as much progress as you wanted to etc...just swap your hands on the guitar and try do anything you do right now. Yeah.

Stay safe y'all.

• Sincerely, your hardest critic...you

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Hey so I've been playing guitar for 3 months now but recently whenever I pick up my guitar ready to play I just feel so unmotivated and then I attempt to carry on learning stuff I'm all ready doing then I get frustrated and overwhelmed and put the guitar down all in the spam of about 30 minutes. if anyone has any advice on how to break this and actually start enjoying it again not get to overwhelmed and frustrated when playing it is all greatly appreciated 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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What do you recommend for up and down picks? Also the speed is meant to be 210bpm but I don't know if that s even possible with this lol. It's a little filler I made that isn't in the actual score but I wanted to know if it's even realistic at this tempo?

TIA.

Hi all,

I've been playing the following chord progression:
Em7 --> Cadd9 --> Gmaj --> Dsus --> Dmaj

In the transition from Em7 to Cadd9, I've been playing a few notes to transition:

(High E string) 3 --> 2 --> (B string) 3 --> 0

I don't know why it sounds good to me, but I would like to know the theory behind and it and try it with the other chord transitions. Other than it just sounding good to me, I would like to know the reasons why it seems to flow so naturally and how I can reproduce it!

I've been playing for around 9 years at this point but I never got the hang of fast downpicking. My alternate picking is fine and can do it without tiring out but downpicking is out of the question. The thing is, I hold my guitar in a manner where I can see the fretboard inlays and use that as a reference. This makes it so that I kinda of pull the guitar closer towards my body and arch my own neck and head out in a manner that makes it stiff I guess. Is this holding me back? Should I be holding the guitar in a position where my point of reference are the side dots on the neck of the guitar instead? I play Jackson's RR V models exclusively so I play in the classical positions always.