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I'm still blown away when I went from my hard steel string acoustic to whatever my friend's electric guitar was using. I could actually STRUM!
As someone who has a guitar and is too lazy to learn how to play, what's the best way to start?
And how long before I start shredding faces off?
Unless you're motivated, it will never happen.
Yeah, I get that... But it's kinda paralyzing right off the bat. Don't even know where to begin.
As someone who has a guitar and is too lazy to learn how to play, what's the best way to start?
And how long before I start shredding faces off?
Thanks for the tips.
Any sites/lessons/youtubers you suggest following for beginners?
Thanks for the tips.
Any sites/lessons/youtubers you suggest following for beginners?
Thanks for the tips.
Any sites/lessons/youtubers you suggest following for beginners?
Buy Rocksmith 2014. Cheapest guitar lessons for the feedback they give.
This never happens, by the way. Been playing for 30+ years. Chicks don't dig guitars anymore, it's not the 80s.
If you wanna get laid, be a DJ.
I never played an instrument before and maybe it's time to learn. A ukulele is what comes to mind and then the mandolin.
Which one has an awesome sound and easy to play.
If I ever get a girlfriend, being able to seranade her with a song would be nice. I need to learn some new skills.
As someone who has a guitar and is too lazy to learn how to play, what's the best way to start?
And how long before I start shredding faces off?
If it has a Floyd Rose bridge, it will be a pain in the ass, but yeah in general, guitars are very easy to tune.
Learn to play guitar because it's awesome, not for this silliness. That's Ray Wonder's area - he's the only one for a reason.
Then again, I know a girl who gets super excited when I do magic tricks, so who the hell knows.
The Ukulele is probably extremely tough to master.. but it's pretty easy to pick up and start making music. Just learn 3-4 chords and you can play dozens of songs.
my opinion is to find some songs you like, that use only 3 or so chords (being either A, E, Am, G, C, or F) and just learn how to play that song first. That will take you a month easy.
I learned the lesson years ago - never buy a guitar with a Floyd Rose bridge. Hell, tremolos in general are unnecessary.
Les Paul all the way, baby.
I started playing like a year before this came out and honestly, it really helped me a lot. A lot of purists dismissed it as a novelty, but my strumming and fingering improved massively as a direct result of trying to get FC'sAs somebody who has been playing guitar for 10 years, and if I had to do it all over again, I would have gone this route.
Probably would have saved a lot of money.
This is how i learned the Banjo.That's exactly what I did like.. 21 years ago during easter break at school. Just looked up some tabs on the old dialup and sat in my room learning by myself. It's quite a fun way to learn the basics I thought, since you can recognise cool shit you like straight away.
These days I'm sure youtube can teach an awful lot to a beginner.
😲 Screw you buddy I was being serious as hell 😂😭
Electric Dulcimer.
No I'm serious. Skip to vids for proof.
Here's mine. Its got a dimebucker bridge and an Invader neck pickups. Solid Red Mahogany and heavy as fuck. So much tone would it can sustain a note tapped for nearly 10 minutes. Tune it to GDG and its in the G major scale meaning damned near all piano sheetmusic can be read for this instrument so no worries on sheet music not existing. I can read pretty much anything I find online and play it. Theres also a tab program that'll convert mp3 or midi to dulcimer tabs called Dulcitab.
- 3 strings and diatonic not chromatic. This means its tuned to a chord and its a straight scale down the neck with the exception of only a few sharps. Strum it and do nothing but bars if you wannabe like Green day. Its tuned to a chord already so its all good. Just slide your finger down all the strings and strum as you see fit.
- Chord shapes are easy if you want to do non bar chords to get the 4th and 5ths and what not. Plus frets are WIDE so no finger cramping.
- You can hold down 2 strings and just strum while moving your thumb around to play both back up and lead from day one. Its actually a dream to fingerpick so its easy to do really nice fast melodic stuff.
- Since its a solid body you can put rail pickups into it and get a guitar sound or midi pickups for a keyboard sound if you like. Only sacrifice is the scale range since you have half as many string sizes and not all the chromatic notes. Most notes you can makeup for by pre bending a string before picking it. You can also get a cheap piezo pickup to lay on an acoustics body if you want electric tones on an acoustic. Not bad, but you'll pickup body noises.
- You can play them overhanded or underhanded so guess what...if gripping a guitar cramps your wrist fuck it and just go overhanded like a lap dulcimer player.
Perfect for upright, overhand, under hand styles of grip. Strumming, picking, slide or whatever. Piss easy.
Here's some music.
An electric Dulcimer and two acoustic dulcimers playing Pinball Wizard
Famous Unknowns Lindsay Buckland playing his electric dulcimer with guitarist Carlos Vamos I think he has a midi pickup which means any sound bank a keyboard has he can make his dulcimer sound like it.
Bing Futch playing some SICK blues on his electric dulcimer. As well as doing a national anthem hendrix style
Quentin Stephens shredding Halen-style on an electric dulcimer
Insane piece done by Bradley fish on an acoustic Dulcimer with a piezo electric pickup. This piece really shows how much tone you get just from strumming and sliding and how fast you can play. Dude is literally playing with a wooden noter which is like a slide you just move up and down the neck. Check this out above all.
I'm just needing someone to make me a tremolo system for mine. I need to fish around for custom guitar luthiers to machine one. If I pull that off then I can do divebombs and all that good whammy bard stuff on the instrument. For now...I have a pedal for it
Thank you for this post, it really made me interested. I personally play around with a banjo, oldschool style.