WHY IS LEARNING GUITAR SO HARD I JUST WANT TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING

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Like most skills, you just have to accept sucking at it for a long time and practice regularly until you get over the hump where it then starts to become more fun than frustrating.

Granted, you then hit territory where it's really easy to stagnate. I've been playing guitar for ten years and I should be leagues better than I am now, but I still enjoy doing it.

>>38127188

REEEEEEEEE I JUST WANT TO PLAY SONGS FROM MY FAVORITE ALBUMS ALREADY
I'D LIKE TO PLAY IN A ROCK BAND AT LEAST ONCE BEFORE I DIE

No one picks up a guitar and immediately starts shredding.

You can either give up or accept the fact that it's gonna take a while before you're any good.

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I've managed to get pretty decent at guitar. Though I play classical guitar. Which means even knowing guitar can't really help me with women unless they're especially cultured. Or maybe hispanic.

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Guitar is easy as fuck. Are you just bad with your hands? A brainlet or something? It couldn't be easier, you just finger the frets and there you go you're playing guitar.

>>38127228
I gave up guitar at 14, now I'm 20 and picking it up again because music is the only thing I care about desu

And girls. I care about girls a lot. and girls like guys who play guitar REEEEEEEEE I WANNA BE GOOD ALREADY

>>38127264
Stop acting like a faggot and get to practicing already then.

>>38127066
Just keep playing and practicing really hard. Being good in music is mostly just hard work.

>>38127066
the quickest way to get better is to either join a band or always play with a metronome/drum track.

>>38127304
okay.

white stripes songs don't seem that hard to play

>>38127066
Download an app called tabit
then download some tabs
its really easy to get into it with this program

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>>38127066
>tfw can't transcribe for shit

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU TRANSCRIBE CHORDS?

>>38127358

I'd recommend focusing on just being able to play one simple song for half a hour first.

keeping it simple is what kept ringo in the beatles.

>>38127262
this wtf, learned guitar in like 6 months in high school

>>38127066
Accept that you'll suck at first, as with almost any skill. Then just practice and improve, it takes time.

>>38127385

I'm not a fan of the beatles

but the keep it simple advice is nice, thanks anon. I'll keep at it

>>38127066
What a joke. Learning guitar is the easiest instrument out there. I can master a song in an hour tops. You simply don't have the talent for it.

>>38127066
Nobody plays guitar anymore you faggot

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>>38127264
>picking up a hobby to impress roasties
wew lad

>>38127878

all you do is masturbate so go fuck yourself you twink

you could try bass

OP, I learned guitar in highschool and I keep learning by watching this guys' videos.

https://www.youtube.com/user/martyzsongs/videos

He's really informative and keeps it simple. I started off like shit, it took me a few minutes to switch chords and now I'm really good. Took me a few months to improve by practicing at least half an hour a day.

Start by becoming familiar with chords; not only the finger position on the frets, but also their sound, and learning a song is really just a matter of connecting these chords together. It's that easy. Even some of the most popular songs use less than 5 chords or so.

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>>38127909

I'm mostly joking about playing guitar just to get girls. I'm doing it for myself.

Besides, roasties only care about top 40 pop music, obviously I won't be playing just for them

>>38127066
i know that feel
i spent $2000+ on a bass setup and gave myself nerve damage in my wrist within a month

>>38127262

Music is extremely hard to get into if you haven't been learning it as a kid. Adult brains don't have the learning potential as children brains.

>>38128133

lol damn, you could've fucked 200 girls in Thailand with that money

>>38127909
that doesn't work unless you are already a chad

>>38127066
Give up now and save yourself time.
If you're playing to be good, you really honestly should give up. because
A: it's gonna take years to be good. I've been playing for over a decade and i'm still not that good
B:If you just want something to be "good" at and you don't enjoy playing guitar itself, you wont be able to be good

do something you actually enjoy instead

Could I plug some of my original guitar stuff here or will you guys get angry?

>>38128268

but the only other things I enjoy are sex and money. Both of which I don't get enough of.

I also outgrew video games, so it's not like I've got that as a timekiller

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>>38128268
Jokes on you; I enjoy nothing

>>38128307
Ignore these guys man, I've only been playing for about five years and I'm at a point where I'm happy with my ability - obviously I still want to be better, but I don't consider myself bad
I say keep practising, get one or two real easy songs down (Seven Nation Army and Satisfaction maybe) and start playing with other people as soon as you can

>>38128268
>I've been playing for over a decade and i'm still not that good
What the fuck? This has to be bait. Some people are naturally talented but by a decade + you should be a pro. It took me 8 months to learn. You're lazy, that's really it.

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>>38127066
Guitar is easy as shit OP all I want are replies AND NOBODY EVER FUCKING REPLIES TO ME FUCK FUCK REEEEEEEE REEEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>38128422
I'll originally reply to you, friendo

>>38128422
hi buddy enjoy your (you) I hope it makes you feel better

>>38128174

It's harder to learn anything as an adult than it is as a kid, but you can still do it.

The problems most people have, whether for learning an instrument, a language, or any subject through primarily self-study are

1. They are not patient and methodical in how they approach the subject. For example, people will buy an instrument and a music book (or watch videos on youtube), but won't go at a moderate pace, instead they want to rush ahead and overestimate when they are ready to proceed to the next lesson. They think if they can fumble through the notes of a piece that's good enough, even if the tempo is bad and there are lots of mistakes. Consequently they eventually feel overwhelmed when they race ahead too far and discover they actually are still very poor at the subject.

2. They don't arrange to get good feedback. This is a huge problem when you don't have a teacher. In music, you need to hear yourself if you don't have someone else trained to do so. You need to record yourself playing and listen to it objectively. It sucks to do it because you hear yourself and how bad you sound, but that's how you get better.

Basically, go at a glacially slow pace, be very methodical and make sure, through testing yourself, that you have mastered every concept before going onto the next one. This is true for ANY sort of self study.

>>38128306

sure go ahead dude orignaltacos

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Being a neet with huge amounts of free time, I decided to learn guitar just by watching YouTube tutorials.

Keep at it anon.

>>38128422

OP here

have a (You)

Life is worth living.

>>38128532
Cheers friend
https://soundcloud.com/jacob_wilson/untitled-7

>>38128562

which youtube vids did you watch

SO far I've seen some justinguitar vids, it's alright

>>38127066
use songsterr
watch youtube video on technique (try ben eller)
ALWAYS play in rhythm, its probablty the most important thing, rhythm and legato make the biggest difference
try and memorize licks and songs you really like and play them over and over again.

>>38128590
Not him but try Martyzsongs (he gets a new channel name regularly but you should be able to find him)
Dave Simpson has good videos on John Frusciante and Jimi Hendrix too

>>38128577

niiiiiceeeeee dude, saving to my bookmarks

>>38128381
The more time you spend with an instrument, the better you become at seeing your faults. This isn't that uncommon of a thing.

When I was on my 3rd year of playing guitar I thought I was hot shit. Now I'm on my 7th and I realize I'm pretty mediocre.

>>38128620
That means a lot, thanks!
Check out the other stuff I've got on there if you like, I find only my Untitleds and covers are worth looking at though

>>38128590
I mainly watch GuitarLessons365Song. He does requests too

>>38128381
It's more you reap what you sow.
I'm not a shredmaster, i never cared about technical proficiency. most of my playing is garage rock or shoegaze, fucking around with pedals. So now I'm really good at coming up with riffs, but no i can't play scales fast or anything

>spent 15 years playing guitar
>got really good
>played lead guitar in several bands
>stopped playing when i went to grad school
>haven't played in 7 years
>totally suck now

You also have to practice constantly if you want to stay good once you get there. Now I'm a lame rythym player at best whereas when i was at my best there wasn't a solo i couldn't learn in a few hours.

>>38129167
I hear that, I stopped playing metal for maybe six months and now I can't play lead fast at all

>>38127066

My fretting hand is also the hand I fap with so when my forearm got super veiny from "double duty" I had to choose between guitar and fapping...so I chose fapping. I made the right choice

>>38129167

I have taken a few multi-year breaks. It takes about two months to get the finger strength and muscle memory back. At first it certainly does feel like you're back to being a beginner, fingers no work, coordination is all befuddled, but it comes back more quickly than you'd expect with daily practice.

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>>38129301

not a bad choice desu, webcam girls need to make a living too

>>38127066
I actually got guitar really easily, the solos just messed me up sometimes because the pulloffs were too far from eachother (I.E One by Metallica)

>>38127066
I picked up guitar last monday and already taught myself one song
A simple song
But still a song
Now i have to fix my guitar strings before i can get on with the next more difficut song

>>38129385
>One by Metallica

Holy shit, I remember my metal phase, One and Children of the Damned by Iron Maiden were my favorite songs ever

>>38129429
What guitar did you get friend?

>>38127993
OP, im>>38129429
And this is true
This is the guy who taught me the song

>>38129429

which simple song did you originally learn my original buddy?

>>38129474
I have an esp ec-10

>>38129507
Nice
I'm a strat man myself, my main guitar at the moment is a cheap no name strat I repainted and swapped the neck on
Sounds amazing for 50 quid

>>38129495
Smoke on the water by deep purple
Next im goung to learn iron man by black sabbath
And then blitzkreig bop by the ramones
Anyone got any other songs good for beginners?
>>38129507
What's a strat?
Im very new and dont know any terminology

>>38129560
A stratocaster, probably one of the two most famous guitars ever
Think Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Hendrix

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>>38129560
pic of strat for reference because I'm dumb and didn't include it before

>>38129593
So to be clear the [blank] caster mainly describes the appearance of the guitar

>>38129656
Looks just like mine except i got a smooth black one

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This is my girlfriend. She cost me $100

>>38129661
Not really, it's a specific model by Fender
But there are guitars the same shape as this made by other companies that are called strat-style or super strats
The main feature of it are the three pickups where most other guitars will have two

>>38129684
Should mention that one isn't mine, but it's similar
I messed up when repainting mine and made the burst too dark

>>38129716
Nice. I have the same guitar.

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Play something you enjoy, anon. Also if you choose something then learn it anyways, even if you feel like you can't do it. This is the only way (I play on a cheap Cort strat, so it's not about the equipment at all).

>Why can't I be good at something without pratice, training and time?

Because fuckwad, if anyone could do it there would be a lot more shitty rock bands.

>>38129848
If anyone could do it they wouldn't be shitty :^)

>>38129868
Oh trust me, there are a lot of people who can do simple tasks and still fuck them up and make you wonder how they can fuck up something so simple. So yeah they would be shitty, trying to combine some garbage heavily modified guitar from a song they already know with some acid jazz bass and drum rhythm thinking that their unique sound is good.

Stop trying to play progressive technical death metalcore and just stick to normal rock, fag.

>>38129953
Don't be mean to the poor dude

>>38129560
This is laye,
But Hunger Strike by temple of the dog is really easy, though i'm not quite sure how it would sound on electric

>>38130084
Hm
Ill look into it
>>38129718
Sorry for asking so much questions but what is a pick up

>>38127407
>6 months
And you sucked big time

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>>38130140
Don't worry about it man, everyone starts not knowing anything
A pickup is what "picks up" the sound your strings make - marked red in the image

>>38130140

Here ya go, anon. Everything you ever wanted to know about passive guitar pickups and how they work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjS17I6inbk

>>38127066
Its not though.
Step one. Play this note/cord to work on your fingering for HOURS.
Step two. Repeat step one until all notes/chords are learned and muscle memory is a thing.
Step three. Learn your fucking scales and harmonica god fucking damn it.
Step four. Learn a song.
Step 5. Enjoy playing guitar.

Expect each step to take 1 to several months but realize each individual step is really fucking easy.

>>38130511

It's better for the student's sanity to mix learning songs throughout all of those steps. Sitting in front of chord and scale charts for hours will make anyone bored and discouraged.

Best way is to use a particular song as an example piece for how various chords and scales have been used to compose it. eg, here is song, it uses these chords, and is in this key. Learn song and chords at same time. Identify to student how the notes fall on the scale associated with the key the song is in.

>>38127376
Bretty easy slow down the track to 75% speed hear the lowest ringing note when the chord hits so you know the root note and then just figure it out by thinking "bottom 3 or top 3 strings".

>>38130337
i mean whatever helps u sleep at night i guess my dude

>>38130646
But it builds a rock solid and unshakable foundation you can use later to become the best kind of composer.

>>38129743
It's good for the price desu. Only problem I have is that when I hold down the 3rd fret, 2nd string, it makes a really loud buzz even if I hold it down strong enough. Not sure if I need new strings or something.

>>38131287

Of course, but you need a mix in the curriculum. It isn't helpful to learn chords/scales/modes outside of the context of composed music.

>>38131383

Raise the bridge saddle for that string slightly. Look up youtube video on how to do truss rod adjustments. Your neck may or may not need an adjustment, but the video will explain to you how to indentify if it does or not.

>>38127264
its 2017 girls like guys who rap you dumbass

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>tfw learned how to play a new song
>it sounds shit because its the basic melody but you're proud of yourself

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>>38132559

Progress is progress. Good job.

Sometimes when i play my fingers go slightly over the fret
And it makes a bad sound or it just gives the wrong sound completely
Do any of yall have a remedy for this?

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>>38127066
>you'll never be good at anything
>because for any hobby or profession, there are people out there who make it the center of their life
>they'll continually raise the bar to the highest level its humanly possible to raise it to
>you're just some below-average schmuck without the passion to spend a decade or more pursuing this one thing and one thing only
>doomed to be one of the expendable masses who aren't particularly good at or essential for anything in particular, of no great use in any field

>>38132080
what makes you think he's into fat white girls?

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>>38133078
These feels resonate with me. What can we do?

Guitar sucks, learn something useful like piano. You'll be forever a musiclet if you learn theory from guitar.

>>38127264
same except I'm 24 now and thinking about picking up a guitar again
but I feel I would not get any further than last time I tried, something's just wrong with me

>>38133785
Do you have any useful resources for learning piano? I have a keyboard but never use it.

>>38127066
If it was easy it wouldn't be worth doing ;^). Not that learning guitar is worth doing.

>>38127407
>i learned guitar in 6 months
Except that you never stop learning an instrument. Wtf does your sentence even mean? You learned how to play a few chords? Could you improvise over a Mixolydian progression?

>>38135202
it obviously meant i learned the basics and was decent enough to play music, write music, read tabs etc. i was no john butler but there's a difference between learning an instrument and mastering it, retard. maybe the reason you're all losers with no friends and relationships is because you can't understand context and socialization due to your autism.

>>38133223
Enjoy the rewards that all these people reap for us. We get to enjoy the media that all these people slave to produce. It's great.

>>38135268
>but there's a difference between learning an instrument and mastering it
I think you're the retarded one if you think you ever finish learning an instrument. I have a wife btw, so nice projection

>>38127066
guitar is easy pleb. start with basic chords. strumming rhythm will come with practice

>>38135316
you're literally missing the entire point of my post lmfao
and if you had a wife u wouldn't be on r9k, stop lying to yourself it's sad

>>38135585
What was the point of your post? I think you believe there was a point, but if you actually review it from a literary perspective then there was none.

I met her on /r9k/ 2 years ago (^:

>>38127407
Check out this badass /s

>>38127878
It's all about that synth now

>>38133150
>>38132080

that Shawn Mendes kid on the radio plays guitar and all the girls want his dick, same for Ed Sheran

>>38135699

>I met her on r9k two years ago

WHAT THE FUKKK

r9k is all like:
>tfw no gf

and this asshole meets a wife here

>>38135988
/r9k/ was a hotspot for meeting people a couple years ago. Now it's mostly underage normies shitposting but back then there was a semblance of community. I'm probably the only one from back then (who I still speak to) who ever goes on /r9k/ anymore. You might think the whole "/r9k/ is shit now" is just a meme, but it's not.

>>38135699
I'm sure you did. And I met my boyfriend on /sp/. (^:

I wish i was kidding

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learn music theory first anon-kun

>>38136197

girls are trained early these days I see...

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>>38136197
anything specifically?

>>38136147
Okay? Good job on completely sidetracking and not elaborating on what you initially meant. I know you're a brainlet who didn't have a point.