No joke, I super proud of everything you’ve accomplished on the guitar in such a short time. You are already a better guitarist than I ever was at that age!!! Keep it up!!!
Just started playing the guitar and got my first song mostly down after a month of playing a bit everyday. (House Of Memories) Try getting just a few finger exercices into your practice routine that you can run a few times between doing the song, repeating the same song a bit throughout the day when you see your guitar helps a ton but spending hours on it can only help so much. Thus the excercises to vary what you're working on in semi short bursts. Really take the time to figure out what fingers make sense to use,not just using the same ones moving along the guitar. Just repeat any small section you're having a hard time with a couple times to figure it out and if you do that in short bursts it'll really get that muscle memory fast. Also noticed after a month and trying to do a harder song now that I should've stretched my fingers to hit more cords, so thats also something you can start doing every day (loadsa practices routines for that, you need to both train the flexibility daily AND the guitar movements. Definitely worth looking up some exercises for that. Last thing would be after getting the cords down, work on keeping the same rythm throughout the song, makes a big difference. Make sure you aren't pressing the strings too hard and MAKE SURE you're relaxed when playing, breathe properly and don't hold your breath ;). Hope I helped a bit :^), good luck to the both of us!
Fyi was just talking on what I figured out after ducking about, now paying attention to what you were doing I'd say the relaxed thing is hella important fr u and you can start slowing down on the song to get a consistent rythm / make sure you're hitting the notes properly :)), hitting those notes seems to just be about muscle memory and practice so just go slow and make sure they're ringing nicely on rythm to what you need to be doing, you'll notice huge improvement when you go back to speedier playing
Sorry last thing 😭❤. MOST IMPORTANT is to just have fun and do a lil every day even if its only 15minutes. Does a hell of a lot more for you than all those tips combined 😊. Genuinely the best advice ever for anyone and I'm definitely not the only one that'd say that. Much love man, I'm subbing and can't wait to see the progress :)!
That was great! ( a tip for the main riff where it goes 01 2 01 3 01 4 01 3 01 22, for this part try to use all of ur fingers, excluding ur thumb ofc but when you use all of ur fingers it helps you with your dexterity and helps play it faster!)
Thank you. I knew that's how you were supposed to do it. I just hadn't tried because I wasn't good, which doesn't make sense, that's what practice is for, but I'm practicing that now though
What I do for power chords is I use my index and my pinky so I don't have to stretch as much with my 3rd finger on the lower frets
No joke, I super proud of everything you’ve accomplished on the guitar in such a short time. You are already a better guitarist than I ever was at that age!!! Keep it up!!!
Wow, thank you!
Just started playing the guitar and got my first song mostly down after a month of playing a bit everyday. (House Of Memories)
Try getting just a few finger exercices into your practice routine that you can run a few times between doing the song, repeating the same song a bit throughout the day when you see your guitar helps a ton but spending hours on it can only help so much.
Thus the excercises to vary what you're working on in semi short bursts.
Really take the time to figure out what fingers make sense to use,not just using the same ones moving along the guitar. Just repeat any small section you're having a hard time with a couple times to figure it out and if you do that in short bursts it'll really get that muscle memory fast.
Also noticed after a month and trying to do a harder song now that I should've stretched my fingers to hit more cords, so thats also something you can start doing every day (loadsa practices routines for that, you need to both train the flexibility daily AND the guitar movements.
Definitely worth looking up some exercises for that.
Last thing would be after getting the cords down, work on keeping the same rythm throughout the song, makes a big difference.
Make sure you aren't pressing the strings too hard and MAKE SURE you're relaxed when playing, breathe properly and don't hold your breath ;).
Hope I helped a bit :^), good luck to the both of us!
Fyi was just talking on what I figured out after ducking about, now paying attention to what you were doing I'd say the relaxed thing is hella important fr u and you can start slowing down on the song to get a consistent rythm / make sure you're hitting the notes properly :)), hitting those notes seems to just be about muscle memory and practice so just go slow and make sure they're ringing nicely on rythm to what you need to be doing, you'll notice huge improvement when you go back to speedier playing
Sorry last thing 😭❤. MOST IMPORTANT is to just have fun and do a lil every day even if its only 15minutes. Does a hell of a lot more for you than all those tips combined 😊. Genuinely the best advice ever for anyone and I'm definitely not the only one that'd say that.
Much love man, I'm subbing and can't wait to see the progress :)!
That was great! ( a tip for the main riff where it goes 01 2 01 3 01 4 01 3 01 22, for this part try to use all of ur fingers, excluding ur thumb ofc but when you use all of ur fingers it helps you with your dexterity and helps play it faster!)
Thank you. I knew that's how you were supposed to do it. I just hadn't tried because I wasn't good, which doesn't make sense, that's what practice is for, but I'm practicing that now though