Any guitarist?? need some help :(

[dransy]

Right basically im stuck in a rut

I bought an accoustic and really have been playing that for about 3 months non stop.

Decided to get some new strings for my electric put them on the other day .

BUT now i cant find a song to learn! every song i look at is either to easy or way to hard , im struggling trying to find a decent song that i can learn ! >.< What do i do?

I dont really wanna go back to my accoustic as i wanna get back into my electric

Anyone got any ideas or some cool little riffs for me to get motivated again.

Cheers
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Whenever i get in a rut i learn a new chord and incorporate it into my playing.
As much as you enjoy playing your electric remember the wooden box now and again, it's great for building strength into your fingers which helps for those 2hr electric jams.


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[dransy]

When i got my accoustic it carved right into my fingers expecially the bottom 2 strings it was so much harder to play than my electric.

I only started learning chords a few week ago as i always read tab.

When i play chords on my electric though it sounds awefull i think it might be cos my amp is a really cheap crappy small one??

But im not sure
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If you can do it on an acoustic, you can damn sure do it on an electric and the chords are a lot easier to hold and generally the action on an electric is easier on the fingers.

An old favourite is to start with power chords, in TAB they look something like this:

7 6 3
7 6 3
5 4 1

You do know how to read tab don't you?? If not just google it, the basics take literally minutes to learn, its only when your looking at particular techniques like trills, tapping, hammer-ons, pull-offs etc that you might need to take time to get used to seeing the symbols.

So, get used to moving up and down the fretboard using power chords, throw in some distortion and in 4 hand movements of that power chord shape you can play Nirvana's "Smells like teen spirit".

I'd then say go onto playing up and down scales, easy ones like major and minor pentatonic to get your fingers used to moving about individually. Look up John Petrucci's "Rock Discipline" videos on youtube as there are some really good warm up techniques in the first few videos that will get you all over the fretboard whilst getting some string skipping in the mix as well.

As far as searching for more simple songs goes, anything by Nirvana will do, some oasis songs are simple chord changes, a lot of Metallica songs are not too difficult technically but you might be more comfortable playing them when your a bit more used to switching between positions swiftly - Master of Puppets is a very nice one to learn. Im also told that any classic rock bands are fairly basic, but its not really my thing to play so I wouldn't know personally.

It's pretty much down to what genre you are into really, even if a song looks hard, break it down into segments and get used to playing them individually, then work on the transitions.

HTH

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[Villers]

Isnt it more

5 3 3
7 5 5
3 1 1

etc. for power chords? Try looking at ultimate-guitar.net and just search for whatever takes your fancy, you will find something eventually. For me personally Ive all but given up, it seems to bore me loads these days and I dont have the patience with it. I think the downturn started when I bought a cheap marshall amp.
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[dransy]

What my main problem is , is finding a song that i can play all the way through.

Like i can play the intro to sweet child o mine .. and abit of the chorus but not any of the rest , stuf like that i can play some parts of songs but not others .

I can play quite alot of stuff but i think i can only probably play about 10 songs all the way through.

I need to practice hammer ons and pull offs . I start to practice but after a while i just get pissed off so i come to it the next day and just play what i already know.

Its the pull offs that are doing my ass in!
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[chillpill]

learn bar cords then its easy to make your own stuff up

[WildGoose]

I don't play guitar, nor do I play electric, so I may not be much help at all. Sorry.

Feeling stuck in a rut is part and parcel of playing an instrument at any level other than perfect. I go there often, it sucks, but something normally occurs to sort it out again. If it's pissing you off, put it down take a break, a few weeks or a few minutes, whatever is needed. If it's not fun whats the point.

I can't say i've found a shortage of songs yet, and I have about 100 regulars to choose from, I only play what I like/want to be able to play.

Play the hard ones, no matter how badly, you will learn, the skill will come. If it was easy enough to glance at a song and play it all the way through, any monkey could do it.

Can't read music or tab (well I can in theory, but not quick enough to be of any use) and no real interest in developing that particular skill. I play rhythm and sing mainly, not bothered so much about the melody side of things.

Reading tab is following a set of instructions, doesnt appeal to me, if you learn some chords you can learn songs much more simply, and mix it up a bit with your own ideas to keep it interesting.
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[Moonie]

Would be good if you could tell us a couple of songs you looked at and whether they were too hard or too easy for you.

I had that problem about a year ago, the thing for me was that I had been stuck at one level for so long that everything I could play I could play really easily and then it was a big jump to step up to better things. You never know you might need to pick a slightly harder song than you're comfy with and work at it for ages.
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