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re: Frustration With Learning Guitar
Posted on 7/16/12 at 1:38 pm to When in Rome
Posted on 7/16/12 at 1:38 pm to When in Rome
Only thing that will help is practice.. Start with one chord and practice strumming patterns. I started with down down up up down up down. and keep doing that one chord until that one chord feels natural. Then try it with a new chord until you are comfortable with it. After that, try the strumming pattern with a switch between the two chords.
I know this sounds weird but that's how I learned how to navigate between chords when I first started
I know this sounds weird but that's how I learned how to navigate between chords when I first started
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Posted on 7/16/12 at 1:41 pm to Delacroix
One my friends (who is a girl) found it useful to put a capo on the first or second fret when she was starting out.
She said it made it easier to press down the strings and it will help with your confidence because you will hear the chords sounding better (of course you will have to ween yourself off of that eventually)
She said it made it easier to press down the strings and it will help with your confidence because you will hear the chords sounding better (of course you will have to ween yourself off of that eventually)
Posted on 7/16/12 at 2:12 pm to Eighteen
A capo will reduce the scale and make everything easier to reach. If you tune down, you'll reduce the string tension and thus the pressure need to fret the strings. If you tune down as many steps as you capo, you'll basically convert your guitar to a short-scale guitar with the dots in the wrong places. I wouldn't recommend learning this way unless you have some kind of physical limitation (e.g. injury) and can't get a real short-scale guitar like a Taylor GS Mini, which I hear is a fine instrument, period.
Posted on 7/16/12 at 4:00 pm to Eighteen
I might do just that. Girl hands are not conducive to this, as I'm beginning to find out 
I think because I played piano when I was younger, and it came so naturally to me, I assumed this would too. I was wrong...it's physically more difficult 
I think because I played piano when I was younger, and it came so naturally to me, I assumed this would too. I was wrong...it's physically more difficult
Posted on 7/16/12 at 4:09 pm to When in Rome
Posted on 7/16/12 at 4:19 pm to When in Rome
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it's physically more difficult
I play piano and noticed my hands extending out as far as I could to cover octaves plus a note or two. Then tried to pick up a guitar and just couldn't get my hands to shrink back to play chord progressions on a guitar.
Posted on 7/16/12 at 4:34 pm to Eighteen
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yea but I think you only make the decision of how far you want to go once you get the basic open chords down
Oh definitely. I've seen lots of folks play and learn a couple songs then when I said "alright, play an E boogie" or something they respond, "which one is that?" and start sliding around power chords.
Learning songs only is a great way to start off, you just have to make sure you're learning 'songs + guitar' and not 'songs' if that makes sense
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