how do you improve your guitar soloing?
469734
any guitarist with his/her head on is going to say, break the pieces up, then slow it down to get the technique down, a very important thing to do is be patient
1034082
Take your guitar to a music shop IMMEDIATELY and let them get the broken piece out--DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DO IT ON YOUR OWN!!! The same thing happened to me, and when I tried to do it myself, it messed up the intonation and it never sounded the same again. So get a professional to do it!
255506
first, of course, learn your chords and scales.\nthen practice, practice, and practice some more.\nfinally, just "feel" the notes - then they are yours:)
63109
I've been wanting to play for a long time and bought an acoustic for my birthday this year.  If you know people who play it's great to sit and listen/watch/learn with them.  Ultimately it comes down to practice though.  I love just experimenting with different sounds and trying to reproduce chords or riffs I hear in songs.  Craigslist.com has good listings for local people who will give lessons.
1050838
Definitely stick with it.  Glad to hear you're starting with acoustic; alot of people start with electric and I think it robs them a little.  Acoustic takes a little more to play because the action of the fretboard is greater and bends and hammer-ons have to be done more crisply.  I learned with tabs you can find on any of hundreds of tabulature sites.  Once you get the timing down you'll pick it up.
82292
Perhaps, find a book you like more.  Definitely learn the fingerings for chords, and practice changing between them.  Also, learn scales.  Try going up and down the fretboard, using each finger, and switching between strings.  Try different combinations and variations too.  This will increase your agility and stamina.  Keep your middle finger and thumb relatively parallel to one another.  Also, when I first started learning to play the guitar, I found that I began to play better and improve faster when I practiced standing up.  You'll have to use a strap of course.  I know this has worked for friends of mine, but it's definitely not something that is a scientific constant.  Once you become more physically proficient at guitar, the technical aspects should become easier.  Make sure your fingers are getting stronger and more practiced, at the same time you are learning chords, scales, and riffs.  There is no truly easy way, but you can surely make it easier on yourself beforehand.
997095
OK! here have mine! I gots loads of them! And here's a free lesson! What you do is you hold out your left hand and curl up your fingers like you see the guitar players on tv do *sigh* and pretend like you're holding a pick in your right hand and strum!!!!! Can't you just hear the beauty? lol and then you jump up and down and move your hands all around and *~TA DA~* you've become the most beautiful princess at the ball! just kidding what I meant was ~*ta da*~ you're the rockingist freakin rocker on the planet! Good luck! And take care of my air guitar; she's a beaut! lol have a nice day! :)
828036
Actually,you could do like Hendrix did with his right handed Stratocaster guitar and just flip your guitar around like you hold it (which would technically be upside down),and restring the strings so that your fat "E" is on top ! EADGB  This may work ,till you can get a lefty .Your knobs may be at the top of guitar now ,but you should still be able to jam ! :o)
724473
I would try guitar lesson of the net \nhttp://www.freeguitarvideos.com/ looks like a good place to start also there are probably podcast on it.
321567
The easiest way to learn playing an instrument is you must love it. Then you can read some books to know more about the guitar( or ask somebody) and practice songs
91216
I am a complete klutz who can't hold a pencil without dropping it and I learned to play lead guitar in a surf rock band okay (NOT good, mind you, but ok) in 6 months.  I put in a LOT of hours but we're talking fast picking lead, not rhythm guitar.  I learned both on acoustic and electric.\n\nSo, I can quite honestly say if I can do it anyone can do it.  The hardest thing with an acoustic guitar (more than an electric) is buidlign your callouses.  You'll have to build up some major callouses and get so your left hand and right hand will work independently.  That isn't as hard as it sounds.\n\nThe truth is in this saying by the man Beethoven chose to teach his nephew:  "Practice is the great magician who not only makes apparent impossiblities performable, but ever easy."  Carl Czerny\n\nHINT:  Don't play too long the first couple of weeks or your fingers will get too sore from depressing the strings, even on a high end guitar.  If you put your hands in warm water and think your fingertips are on fire, you're practicing too long at one stretch.  Build up time slowly.\n\nHINT TWO:  Get really good strings.  They will make your life a lot easier and sound better, too.\n\nHINT THREE: Don't be discouraged by what seems like failure.  One day you'll suddenly make a giant leap and be doing something you thought you'd never get.  Then you'll level off and think you aren't getting anywhere.  Pretty soon you'll take another leap.\n\nHINT FOUR:  When you aren't playing, do "beats" with your hands against your legs, the arm of the chair, etc.  It helps you learn to keep time.  (This I thought I'd NEVER be able to learn.  Everyone always said I had to sense of rhythm at all.  Imagine how proud I was when I took up drums and everyone sat and stared at me because I actually had a really steady beat from months of slapping furniture and my body to anything playing on the radio!  YAY!)\n\nGood luck!
16532
Practice more. You'll get better as you do.
978318
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.
1051388
um...get a teacher or a book, remember that electric guitar is easier if u ever want to try it ( the neck is skinnier)
419958
On guitar?  There are a couple ways.  You can bar the F and move it up two frets:\n- - - - - -\n1| | | 11\n| | | 2 | |\n| 33 | | |\n\n- - - - - -\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n3| | | 33\n| | | 4| |\n| 55| | |\n\nanother thing I do in another song is:\n\nX - - - - X\n| | | | 1|\n| | | 2| |\n| 33| | |\n\nX-OO-X\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n| 2| | | |\n| | | | 3|\n\nIt is still quite the transition, but no bar chords, and less fingers.  That is a song where I fingerpick but only use the middle strings.\n\nSometimes, especially when you are just starting out, you gott leave off the end of a measure so that you can hit that G chord (or whatever the next chord is) right on the beat you intend to.  People will notice the change a lot less if you arrive on time.\n\nHope this helps!
387647
Just buy a guitar book that contains where to press the chord and learn it.\nYou can learn it yourself, 1-2 hours a day. Don't be frustrated at first, and don't try too high like "I want to play a rock song", or "I want to learn a melody guitar". Learn it slowly from the bottom.\nIf you're master from the bottom, it easy to get on the top. Just learn it slowly.\nFor example, me and my friend learn guitar 3 years ago and we learn it ourselves. Now our skill isn't embrassing like 2 years ago..
400593
Use a metronome and go over licks that you want to speed up. Gradually bring it up faster, but stop if you are making mistakes. You don't want to make the habit of playing fast and sloppy. Use alternating picking (Picking the notes upstroke and down), don't brink your fingers too far from the fretboard.