I’d say I’m an intermediate player, I started guitar when I was 17 mainly simple things. Took a good few years break from playing and fell back in love with guitars about 4 or 5 years ago now. I am now 34 nearly 35. Youtube has been an amazing tool I wish I had it back in those days. I just learned from tabs mainly.
My tastes have changed a lot since I first started at 17 I was into Nirvana, Oasis, Metallica, but I started liking a lot more classic rock, country and Guns N roses and Van Halen. My tastes In guitars definatley changed too. I loved fender guitars when I was younger now I completely love Gibson guitars.
My goals are to be able to improvise more. I still feel stuck in the pentatonic scales with a few licks thrown in here and there. But it never seems to sound natural. I found some recordings of myself jamming 2 years ago and I don’t seem to have improved this. I try to play some backing tracks and play along as much as I can but it just doesn’t seem to flow very well. Maybe learning blues will help this?
Frustrating part is I do tend to learn things quite quickly it doesn’t take long for me to learn a new riff or a song. I do spend time palying everyday not as much as I would like due to my lifestyle but I find when I pick up the guitar I will try to learn something new for a few mins then I just revert back to playing the same old stuff everytime. I think my wife is going to kill me soon if she hears me playing the November Rain solo many more times. (which I have been playing for ages and I still can’t play the last part properly J )
Whilst youtube is great and I’ve look at Jamplay and got some dvds, I find there is so much choice I don’t know where to go. Some of those DVD courses start slow as I am already past that level so I lose interest. I had the idea of going back to basics to cover anything I missed but it doesn’t seem to work. I also try to look at what players I like and try to see if I can play like them for example on youtube I love the way Phil X plays.
I end up learning bits and pieces here and there that don’t really help me overall. Learning some shreddy run or sweep picking things. But I don’t actually want to play that style.
I just play guitar for fun at home but want to get better. Should I take actual lesons?
Any tips on how to improve this sort of thing would be highly appreciated.
My tastes have changed a lot since I first started at 17 I was into Nirvana, Oasis, Metallica, but I started liking a lot more classic rock, country and Guns N roses and Van Halen. My tastes In guitars definatley changed too. I loved fender guitars when I was younger now I completely love Gibson guitars.
My goals are to be able to improvise more. I still feel stuck in the pentatonic scales with a few licks thrown in here and there. But it never seems to sound natural. I found some recordings of myself jamming 2 years ago and I don’t seem to have improved this. I try to play some backing tracks and play along as much as I can but it just doesn’t seem to flow very well. Maybe learning blues will help this?
Frustrating part is I do tend to learn things quite quickly it doesn’t take long for me to learn a new riff or a song. I do spend time palying everyday not as much as I would like due to my lifestyle but I find when I pick up the guitar I will try to learn something new for a few mins then I just revert back to playing the same old stuff everytime. I think my wife is going to kill me soon if she hears me playing the November Rain solo many more times. (which I have been playing for ages and I still can’t play the last part properly J )
Whilst youtube is great and I’ve look at Jamplay and got some dvds, I find there is so much choice I don’t know where to go. Some of those DVD courses start slow as I am already past that level so I lose interest. I had the idea of going back to basics to cover anything I missed but it doesn’t seem to work. I also try to look at what players I like and try to see if I can play like them for example on youtube I love the way Phil X plays.
I end up learning bits and pieces here and there that don’t really help me overall. Learning some shreddy run or sweep picking things. But I don’t actually want to play that style.
I just play guitar for fun at home but want to get better. Should I take actual lesons?
Any tips on how to improve this sort of thing would be highly appreciated.