r/LearnGuitar

I have taken a few guitar lessons here and there so I know a lot of basic stuff like bar chords and some other simple chords but I don’t know enough and can’t play well enough to pull together nice progressions. I want to learn guitar mainly so I can compose better music (I have a synth and piano I use regularly). Does anyone have any suggestions for what I should practice or look into to get better at coming up with my own music?

I figured that it can be useful to analyze the playing of great guitar players to understand the technique they use and why they use, how to make the same things. I'm a beginner, Idk how useful it will be to me, but I was wondering where I could get content on that, of both footage of great guitar players playing (in a way that I can see what they are doing) and people who have already made analyses on their playing.

I’ve gotten the sudden urge to learn guitar. I’ve been looking here and there to see what I need or how much it’ll cost all together.

Can you guys help me figure out what amp / pocket amp / whatever is needed for me to practice as a beginner silently. I live in an apartment and I don’t want to burden everyone else with my beginner skills. THANK YOU.

From a previous post people recommended a THR10, sonicake amp, fender mustang mini, and laptop stuff that would do the same for cheaper? For the record I do have an old MacBook that I never use. Any help would be super appreciated.

And can you give me tips on how I should start learning which things to focus on I am a complete beginner if you can give me a road map i will appreciate it ☺️

So I have had a guitar for about 5 years now but never picked it up. Came across Stairway To Heaven after a long time a few days ago and the spark reignited.

What I know right now? Absolutely nothing. I don't even remember if I learned any chords beyond A. I have just gone through the lessons (again!) of tuning my guitar and holding it the right way.

Now I only have 75 days because I've got something coming up. And I only want to be able to play like the first 1 minute and 30 seconds. That's it.

Can I learn just the starting 1.5 minutes in 75 days assuming I'm giving 1-2 hours of practice everyday?

If not what would be a realistic timeline for this goal? And can you suggest something of a similar type that would be possible to learn in 75 days?

Been waiting for some extra time over a long weekend to play more. Excited to focus on:

\- Improving my warmup exercises

\- "Lenny" by SRV

\- Studying the fretboard / leaving the pentatonic box

My thumb skin has become hard after the second time it formed and now it doesn't form even if I continuously play guitar, my thumb becomes dead. That's for sure . And recently I started practicing the walking finger technique and my middle and index fingers started becoming red and kind of paining. How should I avoid all this? What should I do to avoid all this?

There is no option of inserting an image or else I would have inserted that.

As i learn the scale it can be kind of frustrating to me when im recommended to use a specific finger when playing it a different way is more comfortable to me. Would it be problematic for me in the future if I just played them the way that feels more comfortable for me? Or would I be better off powering through it and learning how to do things the "right" way?

I got an electric guitar and no matter what I do I just can't learn how to play. Am I supposed to press the strings, and I supposed to not, am i supposed to do BOTH? No matter what video I see, text I read I just don't get it. Also, when I do try to play a chord my fingers just can't do it either. I'm left handed, so I got a left handed guitar, but I think my right is better at the chord stuff. I'm so annoyed and sad

I bought my electric guitar a couple months ago, and I've been really irregular when learning it. I'm rlly bad at having hobbies because I can't for the life of me be consistent in something even if its something I like. I learnt bits and pieces, I started off learning the different chords (completely forgot what it is now but I was doing the beginner course on justinguitar) but I realised that it put me off learning even more so i started learning snippits of songs e.g. Meddle about by chase atlantic, Until I found you by Stephen Sanchez and a couple others that I've forgotten about.

I want to start learning again but I prefer tabs and riffs?? instead of whole songs so I wanna learn some songs that are in between beginner and intermediate because so many beginner songs are chord changes. does anyone have any recs?

I really liked 'The Edge' - The American Dawn, but I couldn't find the tabs and that was what I was planning on learning fully first, so now I gotta find another song to learn that's mid ish difficulty. Does anyone have any recs or advice?

I’m trying to pick up guitar and I’m struggling with fitting all of my fingers in the same fret on an A chord. I have my brother’s old guitar from when we were kids.

I have some pretty large paws, I wear XXL gloves most of the time and work with my hands a lot so I’ve got pretty thick fingers. Is this a suck it up and get good situation or do I really need a different guitar that’s made for fat hands like mine?

I’m not doing a 123 grip on my A, it’s a 213 where my index stays on the G string to kind of anchor for switching to D chord.

I’ve been playing electric for a while but I want to learn how to do barre chords what is the best way?

Hello to anyone who is reading this post I just got a guitar after years wanting to play but now I don't know what to do with it. I did some research on guitar lessons online but so far they didn't click with me, I did had to tune my guitar but I believe it is in tune since I tried copying sounds from each string from a video about tuning a guitar and it sounded pretty close. I am just hoping someone can point me in the right directions as a newbie because everything is so confusing and I just wanna have fun and play songs that I enjoy. I mainly wanna play music like Bunii or Duskydemise but I know it will be hard without prior knowledge of playing guitar but I enjoy their songs a lot.

Im in this werid place where I have learnt to play a little bit of a few things/songs I like. but....

Put me in a room and hand me a guiar I am not sure I could confidently think/remember/play anything.

Anything advice?

I am looking to buy some new picks this week, my guitar came with some but I think they are too thick.

Which brand of picks do you like and recommend for a 3 month beginner?

I am not an absolute beginner, I played for about four months and then just stopped because I really felt like I wasn’t progressing. It’s been some months since I played, and I just don’t know what to do anymore. I do have some experience but I honestly can’t remember a whole lot of the songs that I learned. What should I do? My ultimate goal is to be able to play like some American football type riffs with some hammer ons and pull offs and stuff. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I got my first guitar at 7 and I am 30 now. I have played consistently. No breaks except for my time deployed.

The problem is I was never really taught anything about the guitar. My grandpa taught me to memorize finger placements for the songs he wanted to teach me. He didn’t explain chords or keys or strum patterns.

Just “do this”.

Then I found YouTube videos with Tab and that was more of the same.

Eventually I learned cowboy chords and some bar chords through repetition.

I can pick up my guitar and play and sing a lot of songs on the spot by just looking them up on ultimate guitar tabs.

But I want to get over this decade long plateau. I want to be able to jam with people. I want to be able to play lead.

I keep looking into things in the internet but the more I find out the more I get lost. There is a lot I didn’t know I didn’t know.

I just don’t know where to begin to get moving foreword.

For example, yes I learned a pentatonic shape. But what do I do with it? Can I just play it anywhere? What’s it supposed to be building on?