I've been playing guitar for about 2 years or so now and let me tell you... the pick stash I carry around with me every where has only ever been used once. BUT if I don't have a pick at all times, then I fear that's the moment I'll need one
same I've been playing about 3 years and i never go somewhere without at least 4 different kinds of picks in my pocket. plus they are kinda good to fidget with in your pocket
I had tons of picks absolutely everywhere well I lost them but then decided to learn finger style and now that I'm ok at finger style I find picks absolutely everywhere and hardly use them.
"Not pressing the fret hard enough" As someone who got my first guitar yesterday, I can relate. Definitly did not think that was gonna be so challenging.
I got my guitar yesterday. Played it all day. Only realized when I started looking up youtube videos the morning after that I wasn't pressing hard enough. I just thought my guitar was built different.
Also it REALLY helps in my experience to 'hang' yor fingers on a string like on a hanger. This lets gravity do the work + pulled to the side strings don't need to be pushed as hard to not buzz. Got rid of most of left hand pain for me
The barre chords one is completely true. They’re easy enough to understand but getting all the strings to ring out properly feels impossible or at least impracticably precise when you’re new. It’s hard to know how to improve upon them when getting them correct once feels like a miracle
Or if you're like me and no one told you that in order to do barre chords right you need to rotate your finger ever so slightly so you hit the boney part against the strings so you keep pressing the bottom of your finger against the strings as hard as you can in vain.
@@skepticalshrek I'd imagine it's easier since you have more meat to press down on the strings but I honestly have no idea, lol. Just gotta play around with it and see what works best for you.
I can confirm they do get easier! Unfortunately the practice process is very frustrating, but even just 5 minutes of consistently practicing just switching to that chord makes it wayy easier.
I carry two heavy picks and a dime (it's a "Brian May plays with a sixpence coin but we don't have those here so I use a dime instead" thing; I also tried playing with a coin and I like the sound).
I find asking if someone plays mostly acoustic or an electric guitar an absolutely valid question. There's a diametral difference between playing folk music on an acoustic guitar or shredding solos on electric.
I actually have the fret stickers and within a month I was able to name what note any song I heard was in down to what scale its based in. And I've only been playing for a year so I recommend them lol
this is useful until you start playing in different tunings I pretty much live in D Standard and Drop B, and that's just 6 strings, when I'm not in E Standard. Calculating notes is faster than remembering frets especially since the same notes in the same octaves exist several times on a fretboard EDIT: having that said, do what works for you, everyone is different
@caixiuying8901 I've picked that up. I didn't do it to memorize frets. I did it to memorize the sound and learn the calculations. Only one of my 12 guitars has the stickers and it's my traveler
I love the acoustic or electric question from non guitarists. As if it somehow makes a difference lol I can't tell you how many times I've been asked this when someone finds out I'm a musician and play guitar
I feel called out :( Playing for a year now and am currently trying to learn Playing God by Polyphia. Actually isn't as impossible as it seams, but I'm only making progress very slowly
Dude trust me it's actually a great thing to try and learn a song that's way too hard. One of the first songs i tried learning when I re-started playing guitar after several years break was goat by polyphia, and it helped me improve picking and fretting accuracy by so much more than i would have learning an easier song. And now 2.5 years later i can play it
@@olopaxx Thanks Goat is also a song I tried to learn before Playing God, but I stopped at the tapping part bc I never played anything with tapping in it before. At the moment I'm learning both at the same time, but I kinda wanna start Ego Death and 40oz too. (Not gonna tho) But yeah, playing this helped improve my piano, ukulele and bass technique too, so even if it's hard, it pays off.
thats crazy, good luck man, playing god sounds rlly difficult to play, i tried playing ABC and failed drastically, but youve been playing more than me so 🙏
i kinda gave up with guitar awhile back due to not being able to get that reflex and strength in my hand to actually do barre chords, i have a birth injury in my shoulder and have permanent nerve damage, and was technically born with a 'dead arm' which was completely limp, as a young kid i had five surgeries to be able to even move my arm. i used to go to a camp for kids with the same birth injury, brachial plexus injury, and one year this one teenager came in with his guitar and played so amazingly despite his arm being in much worse condition than mine, his was one of the worse ive seen (im very lucky and the only one i know with this much improvement from what i had). but this guy played so unbelievably well with a huge passion and strength to pursue something so difficult to master, i only just now remembered him, but i think i want to try to pick my dusty guitar back up and try again. though i do know ill struggle a bit due to smaller hands and my birth injury, but ill give it another try and if i cant do somethin one way due to my limitations in my hand, ill try to do it another and alter the way to do it.
I'm only playing the guitar for about 4 months now and the only 2 things, that were accurate were the ,,take the pick everywhere" and ,,not pressing the strings hard enough" and I got rid of those after a week. 😂 Love to all music enthusiasts!❤️
Been playing guitar for six years. Not a pro at all but I still carry pics around cause I’ve found myself in the position of being without more than once.
I play 'acoustic' 😂 We have a rule in these parts of Philadelphia - if you lose your capo (pronounced w/British accent) you have to play Wagon Wheel in Be. Needless to say. I keep one on my pocket at ALL times!
I’m a baby when it comes to learning but in the two and a half..ish weeks I’ve had my guitar I’ve been playing every single day and practicing new stuff whenever I sit down to practice. My goal is to get good enough to do local gigs! I think that would be a lot of fun. Also I can feel the calluses on my fingers forming!! It feels so weird but it makes me happy because I know that because of where they’re forming (on the very tip of my fingers) I’m holding down the fretboard strings properly :D
@@bt3743 kinda, acoustics tend to be steel string and classicals nylon string. classicals also have wider necks in general and a different bridge system though that's mostly due to the strings
Pick alignment do be one o those things it took me year to actually get right. I just didn't care enough and just played alot of fingerstyle, if I ever needed to use a pick, I would do my hardest to do literally anything else.
I've been casually playing the guitar for about 12 years or so and i've only just recently learned i've been holding the pick wrong and it's been holding back my picking tremendously
I just started guitar again, finally figured out how to read the chords chart (don’t ask 😂) and I play by ear mostly (I can read music too played violin and clarinet and some piano) and figured out it’s sooooo much easier than piano I even welcome the pain of numb fingers. They will toughen up in time.
1:46 yep feel that one. I feel like I'am simply unable to play with a pick on the acoustic guitar. Like picking is alright but strumming ogh man. I've played with fingers only for 4-5 years because I liked the feeling of it and the control over the timbre and volume also it just goes a lot smoother. After years I'am trying to pick up picks regularly but it just feels so unnatural. But hey it got its advantages. Most people first seeing me play are impressed af and you don't need a pick. But at campfires there just something missing hence the failed attempts to get it working. And I've got an E-Guitar here laying for a year now and really want to play it to it's full extend but the curse. To everybody learning guitar: Don't be like stupid me being too lazy to go to the store and buy a fcking pick you like. Don't be cursed the same way as I'am
I've been learning 3 string CBG for 2 years and I'm just starting to use a pick. Not for everything, but things where you play runs of 1/8 notes for instance trying to learn 'What's Inside a Girl' by the Cramps. Finding it hard no matter how I hold the pick. Picks to me feel incredibly awkward compared to fingers and for strumming I use the 'imaginary pick' method. I know the sound with a pick has more 'attack' but a lot of the time I don't want that.
I'm a beginner but my dad use to play guitar and I've paid enough attention to experienced guitarists to know how to hold a pick. Dulcimer showed me that how hard you press on the string really affects the sound. I'm waiting for my dad to order a tuner though so I can't practice right now.
my recommendation to any new guitarists is joan jett's I love rock n roll. its one of the easiest one-string songs for beginners, and it sounds really nice even without any sort of bar chords
I’ve had my guitar since January when I got it for my sweet 16 and I’ve taught myself how to play at least four songs by Cigarettes After and even if I am doing something wrong which idk (my mom is getting me into lessons soon) I am just having fun experimenting. I don’t need fret stickers since I play violin and sing and have a really good ear and pretty much can tell when I’m out of tune but I do need to learn how to play chords because I don’t recognize them at first until I hear them and can figure them out from there lol
I just started guitar this week and I was strolling along and doing good…until I saw a barre chord. I’ve played piano for a good while and I’d rather play 7ths all day then even look at a barre chord
Dunno if it'll help you out but I went for the longest time without realizing that you're supposed to rotate your finger a little to the side so that you're fretting with the boney part against the strings. All that agony of jamming the bottom of my finger as hard as I could on the neck was for naught.
0:27 When I was in Orchestra one day, I tried to play pass offs, which our teacher gives us to help us become better at our instrument. I felt good as I shadowboxed, and when it was my turn, I broke into a sweat, and only got to the 6th measure.
To be fair I'm learning Sultans of Swing but have only been playing for a few months. I went from taking 30 minutes to practice just the intro to being able to play the full song up until the solo, mind you still not fluently, but damn just one week of playing a song way out of my skill level and now I can play stuff like Everlong and honestly, I'll probably nail Sultans of Swing in another couple months. Sometimes being overambitious is a good thing!
For me, it's when they let feedback happen when they don't want it. Or when they play a single coil guitar and either doesn't rest their hand on the strings or switch the bridge middle pickup so you hear the obnoxious hum.
Pressing the fret with too much force (in an attempt to get that 3rd root note in the chord to ring out) putting the chord out of tune. Aka re-fret after a year
I always thought I am a beginner guitarist, because I don't do these stuff and when I showed my guitar presentation of my class, they are like ""Omg he's very good at guitar" and some of them are like "you should be famous", I though they were just encouraging me or over exaggerating, but until I watched this video, I found out I am not a beginner.
My daughter bought me a guitar strap for Christmas some years ago with a pouch for picks on it, there are still about 50 in there and a there is one lone pick in a tray behind the gear-stick in my car. Can't remember how or why it is there but has become like a permanent feature.
All advice I feel I could've seen in other videos BUT I liked this video and am subscribing because you deliver it very naturally and are very empathetic and understanding of others. First video of yours I watched but hoping to watch more! Keep up the good work!
How to hold a pick - OBJECTION, I use maybe 4 different grips depending on what I'm playing and which pick I'm using. Some famous gitaurist use VERY exotic pick grips.
Tips: do hand exercises to strengthen your hands! This can reduce cramping, if you find your hands cramp a lot, or if you find barre chords hard to do. Though, if you find your hands constantly cramping, notice where you move your wrist and thumb. When pressing down on the frets, you shouldn’t be tensing every muscle in your hand and wrist. Doing that will definitely cause hand cramps. Try not to squeeze your wrists so much, and focus more on putting pressure on the frets between your thumb on the back of the neck and your fingers on the fretboard. Use your fingertips! I know it hurts like hell the first couple times, but the more you practice, the tougher your fingertips become. I promise your fingers won’t start bleeding, but if they do, again, check how you’re holding the guitar, what muscles you’re tensing, etc. If you use the flatter part of your fingers, you will mute other strings, or cause the strings to buzz. Finally, practice consistently. You aren’t going to get better if you practice once a month. The more you practice, the less it’ll hurt, and the more comfortable you’ll become. (Oh, and please, for your own sake, don’t just go to ultimate guitar tabs all the time! Learn a few scales at least, cause it’ll help your timing and understanding of music)
my friend got me a keychain pick holder and it has been in my pocket for the past 3 years. have I used it? no. is it useful? not really. but it's a gift from my friend and I appreciate it. 12 years of playing and i never got to bust out my picks at a party or a hangout, either.
I'm about intermediate and I'm learning rather hard songs (periphery) but I'm doing it because I love their songs and want to be able to play their music
I practiced guitar for only a week, 4 hours a day was able to play 5 different song with bar chords. It feels like my fingers are about to bleed because the guitar is a high action one. A gift from my dad. I thought I was over achiever, until I found out my Younger cousin can play guitar when he's only 6. Yes we're Asian.
@@expertarcher8542 Nope. I literally cannot move fast enough switching between open chords to bar chords despite practice. Therefore, it's time to get the thumb involved.
I'm no teacher but one way I can determine if someone is still new to playing is they either not check if their guitar is in tune or as one tweet said, cannot determine if they're out of tune. Beginners also tend to have wasted finger movements especially when playing melodic lines. Their middle finger usually moves with their ring finger.
I'll add one: trying to immediately learn a difficult song that may not even be originally meant for guitar in the first place just because they like that song and are too impatient to develop the skills required first (it's me, I'm calling myself out)
It’s not even just that they can’t tell their guitar is out of tune, it’s that they don’t bother tuning their guitar (or taking tuning seriously) before playing it. There’s a reason that tuning a guitar is almost always the first lesson a beginner learns is how to tune (if their instructor/lessons are actually worthwhile). It’s because it’s the most fundamental aspect of playing a guitar. You have to play a guitar that is in tune. If you can’t do that, then everything else you do on a guitar is worthless. Taking your tuning seriously is the very first thing that separates the men from the boys with guitar playing. Remember that, beginners. I believe it’s the barometer to which one can determine if they actually have the potential to be a good guitar player. If you have the diligence and patience to sit there and guarantee that your guitar is in tune before you play it (meaning you tune strings, then go back over them a few times to get everything in tune and to keep it that way), then you have the potential to actually put in all of the time and effort necessary to become a good guitar player.
I have been playing for around 20 years and had never heard of fret stickers. I play with the same pick i have been using for about 5 years, even though a bit of the tip has broken off.
My wife gave my my first guitar for Christmas. I'm a beginner at 52 years old. I know CAGED - sort of. I have notes and I mute a lot of the strings most of the time. I'm pretty sure she thought I was going to take up golf again so she gave in on the guitar. I never wear a cap.
As a person who played piano before guitar not to brag but I chose to play arpeggio by ichika nito first and I can say with full confidence I got one note right😎
Been playing for 12 years and I always have a pick on me. I lost all my real picks, so I made new ones from SpongeBob cards I got from chuck e cheeze and scissors
i ALWAYS tune my guitar before practice, i sometimes top mid practice just to tune it. I dont know if its out of tune, i just want to make sure it isnt.
It could just be because I played Bass before I started learning to play Guitar but I didn’t struggle that much with things like holding the guitar or pressing the on the frets. I just assume everyone does it instinctively.
I have been playing Guitar for 16 years now and 0:27 ("I know this one, then immediatly messes up") still happens to me. This has nothing to do with being new to an instrument. More of just enjoying to play an instrument 98% of the time just for themselves and when eventually performing infront of others suffering from stage frigth. Also 0:38 ("Fretboard Stickers") imho has not nessarily something to do with being new to the Guitar. Up to my 6th or 7th year of playing the Guitar, I did not always know exactly which note I am playing i.e. when Improvising over a Backing Track. Especially on the D, G, and B Strings upwards from the 7th. Fret. After all Guitar Playing more heavily relies on Shapes of Chords and Scales then anything else. If you can play G-Major, you will be able to play the same shape of D-Major 7 Frets up the Fretboard, without knowing what the fifth-note of D-Major is. You will still know what the "Feel" of that note is non the less.
I've been playing for a little over a year and I actually do carry guitar picks everywhere, but I hardly use them myself because I like fingerstyle more
Great video and really relatable! But I’m stumped - why would I carry around guitar picks without also carrying my guitar? It’s not like I randomly bump into available guitars or people who want me to play theirs. 5 years and I have yet to have a pick emergency. Home, work, gym, nights out, dog walks… never needed a pick. My teacher has a shop full of picks. My picks stay with my guitar. At home. Wtf?? What are you guys all using them for??? 😠😊
Thanks to everyone who wrote in :) Again, if yours didn't make the cut it's probably because i stuttered too much and had to edit it out.
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How do I read the sheet music
I've been playing guitar for about 2 years or so now and let me tell you... the pick stash I carry around with me every where has only ever been used once. BUT if I don't have a pick at all times, then I fear that's the moment I'll need one
same I've been playing about 3 years and i never go somewhere without at least 4 different kinds of picks in my pocket. plus they are kinda good to fidget with in your pocket
I’ve been playing for 9 yrs (still suck) but I have a pick I put on a necklace chain.
Mine just sits tight in my wallet 🤣
I had tons of picks absolutely everywhere well I lost them but then decided to learn finger style and now that I'm ok at finger style I find picks absolutely everywhere and hardly use them.
@@tigerboy977 with finger style u wouldn't use much pick anyways. But picks are good for lead parts😌
"Not pressing the fret hard enough"
As someone who got my first guitar yesterday, I can relate. Definitly did not think that was gonna be so challenging.
I got my guitar yesterday. Played it all day. Only realized when I started looking up youtube videos the morning after that I wasn't pressing hard enough.
I just thought my guitar was built different.
@@commandertempest6391 switch to low gauge string
I know this is late, and you might be passed that by now, but finger placement is often more the issue. Get them right up by the frets.
Or get an electric
Also it REALLY helps in my experience to 'hang' yor fingers on a string like on a hanger. This lets gravity do the work + pulled to the side strings don't need to be pushed as hard to not buzz. Got rid of most of left hand pain for me
The barre chords one is completely true. They’re easy enough to understand but getting all the strings to ring out properly feels impossible or at least impracticably precise when you’re new. It’s hard to know how to improve upon them when getting them correct once feels like a miracle
Or if you're like me and no one told you that in order to do barre chords right you need to rotate your finger ever so slightly so you hit the boney part against the strings so you keep pressing the bottom of your finger against the strings as hard as you can in vain.
@@Soluscide WTF
@@Soluscide and if you have chubby fingers? 😢
@@skepticalshrek I'd imagine it's easier since you have more meat to press down on the strings but I honestly have no idea, lol. Just gotta play around with it and see what works best for you.
I can confirm they do get easier! Unfortunately the practice process is very frustrating, but even just 5 minutes of consistently practicing just switching to that chord makes it wayy easier.
the first one is very accurate. I have almost in every pocket a guitar pick while my teacher cant find theirs
Guilty, I had them in pockets, wallet, socks, everywhere
I carry two heavy picks and a dime (it's a "Brian May plays with a sixpence coin but we don't have those here so I use a dime instead" thing; I also tried playing with a coin and I like the sound).
@@nerdymusicianfangirl7024SAME!
Guilty here as well. If anyone isn't aware, they make pick holder keychains! I have one on me at all times, stuffed full of picks.
"The glimmer of hope in their eyes"
wow, such motivating words for a beginner...i can almost see myself in 3 years...
Yeah that one got me scared too 😂😅
Same here (3 weeks)
The minute I get my cords down….I hear that machine flatline 🤣
if I can switch between chords in 30 minutes does that make me intermediate?
I hope so
Master. At least.
I'd say so, yes
youre a proffesional at that point
Absolutely great playing that’s 10 stars and your an advanced player!
I find asking if someone plays mostly acoustic or an electric guitar an absolutely valid question. There's a diametral difference between playing folk music on an acoustic guitar or shredding solos on electric.
I actually have the fret stickers and within a month I was able to name what note any song I heard was in down to what scale its based in. And I've only been playing for a year so I recommend them lol
this is useful until you start playing in different tunings
I pretty much live in D Standard and Drop B, and that's just 6 strings, when I'm not in E Standard. Calculating notes is faster than remembering frets especially since the same notes in the same octaves exist several times on a fretboard
EDIT: having that said, do what works for you, everyone is different
You might have perfect pitch 👀
@caixiuying8901 I've picked that up. I didn't do it to memorize frets. I did it to memorize the sound and learn the calculations. Only one of my 12 guitars has the stickers and it's my traveler
@@Nomad_SwitchTa2 calculations? What calculations?
i don't even know what fret stickers are
“Not pressing the fret hard enough” is so real💀 i kept messing up bc of that
I love the acoustic or electric question from non guitarists. As if it somehow makes a difference lol I can't tell you how many times I've been asked this when someone finds out I'm a musician and play guitar
I feel called out :(
Playing for a year now and am currently trying to learn Playing God by Polyphia.
Actually isn't as impossible as it seams, but I'm only making progress very slowly
Dude trust me it's actually a great thing to try and learn a song that's way too hard.
One of the first songs i tried learning when I re-started playing guitar after several years break was goat by polyphia, and it helped me improve picking and fretting accuracy by so much more than i would have learning an easier song. And now 2.5 years later i can play it
@@olopaxx Thanks
Goat is also a song I tried to learn before Playing God, but I stopped at the tapping part bc I never played anything with tapping in it before.
At the moment I'm learning both at the same time, but I kinda wanna start Ego Death and 40oz too. (Not gonna tho)
But yeah, playing this helped improve my piano, ukulele and bass technique too, so even if it's hard, it pays off.
Progress is progress no matter how slow is it
this is delusional
thats crazy, good luck man, playing god sounds rlly difficult to play, i tried playing ABC and failed drastically, but youve been playing more than me so 🙏
I've been playing guitar casually for 7 years now i still do a lot of this😂
I've been playing semi-professionally for 16 years and I still do a lot of these, lol
@@RuptimusPrime I have been playing guitar all my 54 years of life son, lol
@@guysures125 I have been guitar for life
i am guitar and i still do this
@@TheTH-camGame I've been playing the guitar in my mother's womb for 69 years and I still do some of this, lol
i kinda gave up with guitar awhile back due to not being able to get that reflex and strength in my hand to actually do barre chords, i have a birth injury in my shoulder and have permanent nerve damage, and was technically born with a 'dead arm' which was completely limp, as a young kid i had five surgeries to be able to even move my arm.
i used to go to a camp for kids with the same birth injury, brachial plexus injury, and one year this one teenager came in with his guitar and played so amazingly despite his arm being in much worse condition than mine, his was one of the worse ive seen (im very lucky and the only one i know with this much improvement from what i had). but this guy played so unbelievably well with a huge passion and strength to pursue something so difficult to master, i only just now remembered him, but i think i want to try to pick my dusty guitar back up and try again. though i do know ill struggle a bit due to smaller hands and my birth injury, but ill give it another try and if i cant do somethin one way due to my limitations in my hand, ill try to do it another and alter the way to do it.
I'm only playing the guitar for about 4 months now and the only 2 things, that were accurate were the ,,take the pick everywhere" and ,,not pressing the strings hard enough" and I got rid of those after a week.
😂
Love to all music enthusiasts!❤️
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@@LeakyTrees it is in some countries/languages
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@@Gameday1000 It is and I'm looking forward to become the god of rock!
@@LeakyTrees in germany it is, sorry.
I'm just so grateful for this TH-cam channel man it's awesome
Been playing guitar for six years. Not a pro at all but I still carry pics around cause I’ve found myself in the position of being without more than once.
Been playing for 4 years, finally can play pentatonic licks over and over again :)
I play 'acoustic' 😂 We have a rule in these parts of Philadelphia - if you lose your capo (pronounced w/British accent) you have to play Wagon Wheel in Be. Needless to say. I keep one on my pocket at ALL times!
I’m a baby when it comes to learning but in the two and a half..ish weeks I’ve had my guitar I’ve been playing every single day and practicing new stuff whenever I sit down to practice. My goal is to get good enough to do local gigs! I think that would be a lot of fun.
Also I can feel the calluses on my fingers forming!! It feels so weird but it makes me happy because I know that because of where they’re forming (on the very tip of my fingers) I’m holding down the fretboard strings properly :D
"do you play acoustic or electric?"
Me, who's learning how to play classical guitar
ooh nice how's it going
So acoustic then.
@@bt3743 kinda, acoustics tend to be steel string and classicals nylon string. classicals also have wider necks in general and a different bridge system though that's mostly due to the strings
@@cryptikkcries pretty good.
@@bt3743 lol there's a bigger difference between classical and electric than acoustic and classical
I’m a guitar teacher and I haven’t laughed so hard all week. Well done 😂
carrying a pick was what i was gonna say, i find myself always holding a pick in my lips or pocket. im always strapped with a pick
After a couple of years--with a few decades in between of not playing--I can almost sorta kinda tell when I'm out of tune, a bit...
Pick alignment do be one o those things it took me year to actually get right. I just didn't care enough and just played alot of fingerstyle, if I ever needed to use a pick, I would do my hardest to do literally anything else.
I’m there right now (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`); after 8 years of thinking picks were for electric, I picked up a pack and it just shifts all the dang time!!!!
I love this dude and his videos ❤❤ + the animations
“Thanks for washing” absolutely got me crying bro 💀
I've been casually playing the guitar for about 12 years or so and i've only just recently learned i've been holding the pick wrong and it's been holding back my picking tremendously
Switching chords is so hard and idk why
Because you need: Practice! Practice! Practice!!!
That's all...but if you wanna know what or how to practice, ask google😂
@@markpl056 Wow, google plays guitar too?
@@greetingsearthlingspluto6666 yeah...google is able to play any instrument 😂
I found it really hard at first but now it's really easy and just second nature. You'll get it soon don't worry. It takes time
@Mandy Gee yes
I just started guitar again, finally figured out how to read the chords chart (don’t ask 😂) and I play by ear mostly (I can read music too played violin and clarinet and some piano) and figured out it’s sooooo much easier than piano I even welcome the pain of numb fingers. They will toughen up in time.
Piano is definitely easier then guitar
1:46 yep feel that one. I feel like I'am simply unable to play with a pick on the acoustic guitar. Like picking is alright but strumming ogh man. I've played with fingers only for 4-5 years because I liked the feeling of it and the control over the timbre and volume also it just goes a lot smoother. After years I'am trying to pick up picks regularly but it just feels so unnatural. But hey it got its advantages. Most people first seeing me play are impressed af and you don't need a pick. But at campfires there just something missing hence the failed attempts to get it working.
And I've got an E-Guitar here laying for a year now and really want to play it to it's full extend but the curse.
To everybody learning guitar: Don't be like stupid me being too lazy to go to the store and buy a fcking pick you like. Don't be cursed the same way as I'am
I've been learning 3 string CBG for 2 years and I'm just starting to use a pick. Not for everything, but things where you play runs of 1/8 notes for instance trying to learn 'What's Inside a Girl' by the Cramps. Finding it hard no matter how I hold the pick. Picks to me feel incredibly awkward compared to fingers and for strumming I use the 'imaginary pick' method. I know the sound with a pick has more 'attack' but a lot of the time I don't want that.
I'm a beginner but my dad use to play guitar and I've paid enough attention to experienced guitarists to know how to hold a pick. Dulcimer showed me that how hard you press on the string really affects the sound. I'm waiting for my dad to order a tuner though so I can't practice right now.
I'm getting my first guitar in a few days! I think I picked a good one. I hope...
the thumbnail has an x over the fretboard, and from what I've seen, beginners do indeed follow that advice, especially on tiktok
I like the sound with a capo better with open cords than barring chords
It's underrated
You’re friggin awesome 🔥 literally the only person I actually listen to and actually pay attention to
ive been playing mostly with my fingers for a decade and I HATE having any nails. I always keep them short. Fingertip style lol
I feel personally attacked
This is my 16th year playing guitar and I always bring a pick with me. I started bringing one after 5 or 6 years...experience taught me.
"You go to Ultimate Guitar, and there's like six versions of the song. But you pick the one with no barre chords"... I feel so called out.
my recommendation to any new guitarists is joan jett's I love rock n roll. its one of the easiest one-string songs for beginners, and it sounds really nice even without any sort of bar chords
I’ve had my guitar since January when I got it for my sweet 16 and I’ve taught myself how to play at least four songs by Cigarettes After and even if I am doing something wrong which idk (my mom is getting me into lessons soon) I am just having fun experimenting. I don’t need fret stickers since I play violin and sing and have a really good ear and pretty much can tell when I’m out of tune but I do need to learn how to play chords because I don’t recognize them at first until I hear them and can figure them out from there lol
Finally a video I can relate as a beginner guitarist 😂
I just started guitar this week and I was strolling along and doing good…until I saw a barre chord. I’ve played piano for a good while and I’d rather play 7ths all day then even look at a barre chord
They are super annoying at first, but when you actually learn them it's like a world of possibilities opens up for you
Dunno if it'll help you out but I went for the longest time without realizing that you're supposed to rotate your finger a little to the side so that you're fretting with the boney part against the strings. All that agony of jamming the bottom of my finger as hard as I could on the neck was for naught.
“What if i suck? And then you do” - If that isn’t my life summed up in a sentence 😂
Oh wow this video described me perfectly.
Wait a second....
0:27 When I was in Orchestra one day, I tried to play pass offs, which our teacher gives us to help us become better at our instrument. I felt good as I shadowboxed, and when it was my turn, I broke into a sweat, and only got to the 6th measure.
I just got a new guitar for Christmas it's time to start playing
To be fair I'm learning Sultans of Swing but have only been playing for a few months. I went from taking 30 minutes to practice just the intro to being able to play the full song up until the solo, mind you still not fluently, but damn just one week of playing a song way out of my skill level and now I can play stuff like Everlong and honestly, I'll probably nail Sultans of Swing in another couple months.
Sometimes being overambitious is a good thing!
Your videos are really funny! 😀
Woah, I made it in! You just made my day
For me, it's when they let feedback happen when they don't want it. Or when they play a single coil guitar and either doesn't rest their hand on the strings or switch the bridge middle pickup so you hear the obnoxious hum.
Someone asking how to hold a pick hits different 🥲
Pressing the fret with too much force (in an attempt to get that 3rd root note in the chord to ring out) putting the chord out of tune.
Aka re-fret after a year
Imagine walking in and playing freebird at a beginner class.... What a prank I did 🤣
Me who’s played guitar for 9 years thinking “hey this video should be pretty relatable”
I’ve been playing guitar for 15 years. Wow I feel old.
I always thought I am a beginner guitarist, because I don't do these stuff and when I showed my guitar presentation of my class, they are like ""Omg he's very good at guitar" and some of them are like "you should be famous", I though they were just encouraging me or over exaggerating, but until I watched this video, I found out I am not a beginner.
My daughter bought me a guitar strap for Christmas some years ago with a pouch for picks on it, there are still about 50 in there and a there is one lone pick in a tray behind the gear-stick in my car. Can't remember how or why it is there but has become like a permanent feature.
I've got one more,
The guitarists who ask you how "fast " you ca’ play
I feel attacked 😅
All advice I feel I could've seen in other videos BUT I liked this video and am subscribing because you deliver it very naturally and are very empathetic and understanding of others.
First video of yours I watched but hoping to watch more! Keep up the good work!
How to hold a pick - OBJECTION, I use maybe 4 different grips depending on what I'm playing and which pick I'm using. Some famous gitaurist use VERY exotic pick grips.
Tips: do hand exercises to strengthen your hands! This can reduce cramping, if you find your hands cramp a lot, or if you find barre chords hard to do. Though, if you find your hands constantly cramping, notice where you move your wrist and thumb. When pressing down on the frets, you shouldn’t be tensing every muscle in your hand and wrist. Doing that will definitely cause hand cramps.
Try not to squeeze your wrists so much, and focus more on putting pressure on the frets between your thumb on the back of the neck and your fingers on the fretboard.
Use your fingertips! I know it hurts like hell the first couple times, but the more you practice, the tougher your fingertips become. I promise your fingers won’t start bleeding, but if they do, again, check how you’re holding the guitar, what muscles you’re tensing, etc. If you use the flatter part of your fingers, you will mute other strings, or cause the strings to buzz.
Finally, practice consistently. You aren’t going to get better if you practice once a month. The more you practice, the less it’ll hurt, and the more comfortable you’ll become.
(Oh, and please, for your own sake, don’t just go to ultimate guitar tabs all the time! Learn a few scales at least, cause it’ll help your timing and understanding of music)
As a punk rocker, strumming with my entire arm is my thing.
The last one is so true. Besides, showers are the mortal enemy of calluses 🤣
Everyone's gotta start somewhere!
I've been playing guitar for almost 20 years (11 professionally) and I still carry guitar picks with me everywhere
This is 100% legit!
my friend got me a keychain pick holder and it has been in my pocket for the past 3 years. have I used it? no. is it useful? not really. but it's a gift from my friend and I appreciate it. 12 years of playing and i never got to bust out my picks at a party or a hangout, either.
I think people would be more interested if you said “hey I found some random guitar picks in a trash can” rather then saying you actually play guitar
@@expertarcher8542 i never say i do unless they ask, there is a brain in my head
@@zunk4435 props to you then.
Also, nice pfp :)
I'm about intermediate and I'm learning rather hard songs (periphery) but I'm doing it because I love their songs and want to be able to play their music
All of these surprise me because I would never let anyone know that I just started playing guitar in the first place.
That fucking Neon comment hit me in my soul.
How do people find neon that difficult? I play it just fine, and I don't think I'm a god at guitar.
I practiced guitar for only a week,
4 hours a day was able to play 5 different song with bar chords.
It feels like my fingers are about to bleed because the guitar is a high action one. A gift from my dad.
I thought I was over achiever, until I found out my Younger cousin can play guitar when he's only 6.
Yes we're Asian.
1 week is not enough for pressing hard on note at the barre chord :)) are u sure about that???
i understand the hate for barre chords but i don’t mind them all too much tbh
When you hate barre chords so much you start using your thumb to play the bass strings but your hand's not used to it and now it's sore.
@@whong09 who hurt you… besides your guitar I mean
@@expertarcher8542 my left hand. It's too slow at changing chords so now it has to feel the pain of cramps from gripping the guitar weird.
@@whong09 well it’s gonna be too slow until you make it faster…
@@expertarcher8542 Nope. I literally cannot move fast enough switching between open chords to bar chords despite practice. Therefore, it's time to get the thumb involved.
I'm far above from these but I will still consider myself a beginner
I'm no teacher but one way I can determine if someone is still new to playing is they either not check if their guitar is in tune or as one tweet said, cannot determine if they're out of tune.
Beginners also tend to have wasted finger movements especially when playing melodic lines. Their middle finger usually moves with their ring finger.
I'll add one: trying to immediately learn a difficult song that may not even be originally meant for guitar in the first place just because they like that song and are too impatient to develop the skills required first
(it's me, I'm calling myself out)
flame fretboard stickers make beginners think they play faster but just end up blocking up the fret inlay
It’s not even just that they can’t tell their guitar is out of tune, it’s that they don’t bother tuning their guitar (or taking tuning seriously) before playing it. There’s a reason that tuning a guitar is almost always the first lesson a beginner learns is how to tune (if their instructor/lessons are actually worthwhile). It’s because it’s the most fundamental aspect of playing a guitar. You have to play a guitar that is in tune. If you can’t do that, then everything else you do on a guitar is worthless.
Taking your tuning seriously is the very first thing that separates the men from the boys with guitar playing. Remember that, beginners. I believe it’s the barometer to which one can determine if they actually have the potential to be a good guitar player. If you have the diligence and patience to sit there and guarantee that your guitar is in tune before you play it (meaning you tune strings, then go back over them a few times to get everything in tune and to keep it that way), then you have the potential to actually put in all of the time and effort necessary to become a good guitar player.
1:47 That's literally me playing finger style for like a year and a half and completely sucking at using a pick
I have been playing for around 20 years and had never heard of fret stickers. I play with the same pick i have been using for about 5 years, even though a bit of the tip has broken off.
My wife gave my my first guitar for Christmas. I'm a beginner at 52 years old. I know CAGED - sort of. I have notes and I mute a lot of the strings most of the time. I'm pretty sure she thought I was going to take up golf again so she gave in on the guitar.
I never wear a cap.
Your voice is really nice.
0:38 fretboard stickers are dumb, bc what happens when you change the tuning 😭
As a person who played piano before guitar not to brag but I chose to play arpeggio by ichika nito first and I can say with full confidence I got one note right😎
1:40 i used to hold the pick upside down
Bro when they said “saying capo wrong” he said it right
Been playing for 12 years and I always have a pick on me. I lost all my real picks, so I made new ones from SpongeBob cards I got from chuck e cheeze and scissors
+10 style points
u should do a video abt tips on how to switch between chords easier. lmk if u have already bc im abt to take guitar talk to my therapist
I feel called out (especially with the pick everywhere part) like I just put it in my phone case😢
i ALWAYS tune my guitar before practice, i sometimes top mid practice just to tune it.
I dont know if its out of tune, i just want to make sure it isnt.
2:08 I WAS PLAYING NEON WHEN YOU SAID THIS😭
It could just be because I played Bass before I started learning to play Guitar but I didn’t struggle that much with things like holding the guitar or pressing the on the frets. I just assume everyone does it instinctively.
There’s something special about that old string stank tho.
I have been playing Guitar for 16 years now and 0:27 ("I know this one, then immediatly messes up") still happens to me. This has nothing to do with being new to an instrument. More of just enjoying to play an instrument 98% of the time just for themselves and when eventually performing infront of others suffering from stage frigth.
Also 0:38 ("Fretboard Stickers") imho has not nessarily something to do with being new to the Guitar. Up to my 6th or 7th year of playing the Guitar, I did not always know exactly which note I am playing i.e. when Improvising over a Backing Track.
Especially on the D, G, and B Strings upwards from the 7th. Fret. After all Guitar Playing more heavily relies on Shapes of Chords and Scales then anything else. If you can play G-Major, you will be able to play the same shape of D-Major 7 Frets up the Fretboard, without knowing what the fifth-note of D-Major is. You will still know what the "Feel" of that note is non the less.
My first guitar ever and it's the highest action it can ever be and I'm honestly very discouraged to play it anymore
Its all so true. Mostly. Well, some of it. More or less. You're so right.
I got new strings and didn't notice for 3 weeks why it was weird and jiggly it then noticed that it was tuned 2 octaves too high
2... octaves? wouldnt that be so high the strings would break...
This is so funny😂😂😂
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I have a pick but I don't have a guitar yet.. Now that's painful
I've been playing for a little over a year and I actually do carry guitar picks everywhere, but I hardly use them myself because I like fingerstyle more
Great video and really relatable!
But I’m stumped - why would I carry around guitar picks without also carrying my guitar? It’s not like I randomly bump into available guitars or people who want me to play theirs. 5 years and I have yet to have a pick emergency. Home, work, gym, nights out, dog walks… never needed a pick. My teacher has a shop full of picks. My picks stay with my guitar. At home.
Wtf?? What are you guys all using them for??? 😠😊
I bought electric guitar today and it is arriving on Saturday(2 days after today). And idk what to learn first can you help me?