For the Guitar Players: How fast did you progress at the beginning?

Play as much as you can. You will have days where you make huge progress and days where you want to break the guitar bc you cant do anything right.


With that said, I'm 6 months in and can play a couple tunes. I veered into studying music theory over the last month, instead of playing. This has helped me understand what I'm doing/trying to do when I'm playing

I would recommend practicing at least 20-30 minutes a day. If you still want to play after that, either keep practicing if you feel you're making progress with what you want to learn or just learn some new songs if you're getting frustrated.

I've spent the last month or so refocusing on truly learning to play and read music. Some days go well. Others...eh. Once I get through that, I'm going to focus on theory. After that, speed.

My next 12-18 months is solely focused on fundamentals. I want to be a very versatile player with the capability to play and write in musical notation what I hear in my head.

If you play golf. It’s like golf.

Takes about 6 months to stop hitting worm burners. Then a year to make it stop going right and another year for it to stop going left.

Guitar is quicker ONLY because it is easier to practice and play. You don’t have to drive down to the Guitar course once a week. Just sit on your couch with it.

Definitely a lot of plateaus like golf. Those are frustrating. How many times can you play Wish You Were Here before you want to move into something else.

I am constantly picking songs far beyond my skill level and frustrating myself. Jim Croce? About a billion barre chords in I Got a Name and Operator. Fast uncomfortable switches.

Melissa by Allman Brothers is a good song IMO to slide around with barre chords. Slide does not mean use a slide by the way. It’s fairly slow in the changes and your keeping same hand shapes. Between fret 2 and 4.

Tricky part for me is stopping the barres in Mellisa. When the go to A major. Just plain old A is tough after x number of measures of barre chords. Then cap it off. fricking b minor.

For me personally, progress is always somewhat slow. I don't consider myself to be a natural musician, and at times it takes me quite a while to get something under my fingers.

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How many times can you play Wish You Were Here before you want to move into something else.

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Why you have to call me out like that?

Commit yourself to playing a half hour EVERYDAY. If you get it you get it...

I've played drums since I was 9. I can incorporate that into my strumming

Pay as much attention to your right hand as you do to your left. I was playing leads within a year, but I practiced a lot and already understood theory.

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For someone new to playing an instrument the old adage practice slow to play fast probably makes sense

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Absolutely. I'm taking my time with reading music. I literally sound like a 3rd grader with his first recorder. It's painstaking at first. But once I get the notes of the exercises down, I'll run through 10 reps of 5 increasing bpms. I'll do that with both single notes and chords.

Get Rocksmith! I played stringed instruments from 8 or so through high school, I played around with it a little in college but not so much. I picked up Rocksmith and it is just... fun. I really like riff repeater for learning more intricate parts of songs, and you can speed it up, slow it down, all kinds of options. Also, the family is more into it because they can actually hear the other parts of the songs. They have songs for all kinds of musical tastes, and you can spend a pretty penny on them. Pick a platform, if I could do it over again I would pick PC since they put songs on sale more often, but having it for Xbox is fine. I have my amp, pedals, everything inline with my (sons) Xbox.