how can you improve in playing the guitar?
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This is not to insult you, but I tell this to everyone who asks.  Practice more, find a good teacher, and take lessons.  When I taught guitar, I showed students how to practice and good technique.  I used music the student lilke as well.  This alone is worth the time. \n\nBest wishes
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Hi!  When I was first teaching myself how to play guitar, I tried to find some good sites to help me do that.  I found a few, (www.cyberfret.com was a good one), but ultimately, what worked best was just learning song-by-song and picking up more and more as I went along.  However, www.cyberfret.com will give you many basic lessons to help give you a jump start.
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One way is to take up playing the guitar.  Most all avid guitar players I know have calluses on their fingers.
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Well, there is no beating good 'ol fashon lessons, they can tell you what your doing wrong and right, unlike a site. But if you're really determined, and don't get frustrated easy:\n\nhttp://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/\nStart with the 'Basics' category, and possibly the 'Begginers'\n\nBE SURE YOU KNOW THE PARTS OF YOUR GUITAR!!!\nIt's pretty important to know termonology.\n\n\nAlso, these are all subitted by people liek you and me. They are reveiwed, so they ARE correct 99% of the time. But they are all out of order, you need to do a bit of searching....\n\ngood luck... your fingers are going to go through hell teh next couple of weeks... But it's all worth it ^_-
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Pick up a brush, If youre strumming hand is youre right hand then buy a left handed one, if its your left hand then by a right handed one, I'm a right handed, Left handed guitar player and have been playing 2 years, 13 years of age, reccommended acoustic songs to learn that are really easy\n\nI Walk The Line - Johnny Cash\nWish You Were Here - Pink Floyd\n\nget the tabs from www.911tabs.com
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You mean to teach yourself, get books on the instrument of choice, and start from there. Hangin out at the local music store is helpful. Ask questions. And study the styles of your favorite bands and copy their licks. Alot of patience and daily practice.
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Don't worry! I've been playing guitar for a year now, and chords take a little while to get used to. You need to get a nice approach... make sure your thumb is anchored low and your fingers are sitting strong on the strings. To stretch your fingers out, do finger warm-ups every day (if you get lessons, your instructor can supply you with some warm ups.) Also, your fingers will strengthen the more you practice... you'll start to notice calluses.\n\nA great way to get used to making a C chord is by switching from C to another chord, and then back to the C chord again. Once you can make a switch, it'll become easier to quickly recreate the C chord. \n\nI'm the same way... I want to move on to bigger things and forget about the basics. Take it slow, because the more time you take on the basics, the better guitarist you will be. Stay with the basics and then move on. If you don't take lessons, I strongly recommend it... it's a lot easier. \n\nIt's not impossible but it does take a LOT of practice, so don't give up!
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changing a stratacoustic's strings:\n\n1- unwind old strings so that they're loose. cut them in the middle if you want to make them shorter/easier to deal with while throwing them away.\n\n2- pop out pins from bridge, and take out the strings.\n\n3-put new string balls in line with the holes, and use the pegs to guide them into the bridge. make sure the groove in the pin is pointing toward the neck of the guitar.\n\n4- put the strings up through the tuning pegs.\n\n5- put your hand on the neck, UNDER the strings. turn your hand so that its in the position you'd use to "karate chop" the guitar. now, spread your fingers apart (this step ensures you'll have enough extra string to wrap around the tuners, different ppl use different amounts. i like to not have too much extra.).\n\n6- tune guitar to pitch.\n\n7 - you'll probably notice that your guitar will go out of tune as you're tuning, or for the first 20 minutes or so as you play. thats the strings stretching. if you just lightly tug the strings before you start and retune them, that will go away faster. you may need to repeat that step a few times.
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Check at guitar shops and in paper .Make sure the person you ask to teach you can play the type of music your into.If your looking to learn on music theory i strongly recomend a teacher.There is books out there about it but i just could not get it all out of a book.Reading tabliture was huge for me once i learned that i really became a better guitarist mastering all the old metallica albums.Theory though helps open your mind to so much more and you already know what your doing before you do it.Example with theory mastered you could listen to a guitar part and now exactly were to go to play a solo or what scale would fit.\n       Good luck to you and remember the biggest thing that will make you improve as a musician is,practice i cant stress this enough
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i'm a guitar instructor, i have about 40 students a week, and i also work behind the register at a music store. if a student comes in once a week for a half hour lesson, and gives an honest effort to practicing around 20 minutes or more on most days, i can have most ppl playing songs, and understanding chords and scales in about a month and a half or so. not playing perfectly, but enjoying it, and what you play will be easily recognized as a song.\n\nanyone can do it, as long as they want it enough to put in the effort.
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start off by just going through a scale you know. just pick the root, 3rd and 5th. the trick is timing. start on the low E string, and pick the root note, but dont stop the picking motion until your pick is resting on the next string. then, make sure you kill the note you just hit at the same time you push the pick past the next string. you're not really picking again, you're just continuing the motion you've already got going. they'll sound super clean if you start slow and make sure that you're only letting one ring at a time. gradually as it feels more natural, you can go a little faster.\n\nwhen you get that down, change directions. eventually you can add in some slides, hammer-ons, etc.
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um...get a teacher or a book, remember that electric guitar is easier if u ever want to try it ( the neck is skinnier)
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When I started to play the guitar it was really hard at first because i was new at it.  But about a year later I learned how to play chords and it got much easier.  Its easier and more fun when you get to make your own songs because its easier to memorize. You also have to be dedicated to playing the guitar, and have a good guitar teacher to make things fun.
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Okay, first thing you need to do is understand that playing any musical instrument is not going to be easy.  If you wanted to be a rock star tomorrow, I'm sorry.\n\n1.  Listen to the type of music you want to play.\n2.  Start SLOWLY and build up speed.\n3.  Start SLOWLY and build up speed\n4.  When you are learning a new song go one note a time if you need to, then go to one bar.  Work on that one bar or note or line until you have it.  Repeating is the key.\n5.  Don't practice too much.  When you get frustrated, set it down for a bit, I've gone several days.  You'll be amazed at how much better you feel.\n6.  Start out simple.  You're not gonna play Satch's Boogie right away, sorry.  Play something at your level until you get that, then move on.\n\nGuitar is a very wonderful thing, it will bring you a life time of fun if you stick with it.  Remember that you will always be learning.  BB King has been playing for 70 years and still learns new licks from people.\n\nWhen all else fails  START OUT SLOWLY AND BUILD UP SPEED.\n\nGood luck!\n\nand p.s.  there is no quick way, don't buy into that I'll teach you how to play in 45 minutes crap.  Clapton will work 3-4 hours on one string bend, and he's a "guitar god"
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If you're gonna do it, do it right. take lessons, learn to read music. take your time and learn as much as you can.\nI'm a guitar player, but never learned to read music. I wish i would have done it differently.
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I had the same problem when I was learning, just stick to right handed books, and mirror the image!\nEven better get a right handed guitar and learn on that, it freaks right handed players out...............lol
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guitar center....get some extra light strings....and keeping playing.............like dont stop...everyday...they wont hurt anymore.......GOOD LUCK WITH THAT :)