I am really wanting to get serious about playing guitar. I can learn all of the chords in the world. That's easy. It just takes time. I need to learn about scales and such. I need to work on finger movement and strength.

As I said, guitar masters, show me the way.

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ignore theory, go your own way, make up everything as you go along, mess about with your own stuff and work on every tone and note by ear.

try to get weird and unique sounds out of your guitar

screw learning to play properly... if you can make weird noises you can be considered a guitar god

I hate you both.

I igonored theory until I got to where I could play anything I wanted and I wanted to go deeper because theory just seemed boring to me and had no real use.

Learn to read music.

Try and learn some other instruments as well, it doesn't hurt.

Learn scales, chord formation, more advanced topics, then make your way from there. Listening to other people play is also a great way to learn different styles, techniques,etc. Even if at a basic level, try and learn the proper methods, people don't devote thier lives to teaching methods that dont work, nor is what everyone else does "bad" because everyone does it that way, most poeple probobly know to how to do something a certain way because it's the best way. So after you learn the proper way, you can begin expanding on that, to find your own particular style and methods that's best for you.

allright. here's what you need to know firsthand.



Those are the 7 major scale patterns, in a 3 note per string setup. The blue dots are your roots (if you're playing C major scale, the root is C. ) this is where your scale "settles"

with those patterns you also know your Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Minor and Locrian scales. since they're all the same patterns.

ex: C major is the same as A Minor.

C D E F G A B

A B C D E F G

A minor starts from the 6th note of the major scale. this goes for all other scales too. modes are the same intervals, except the note focus goes into a different order (your root changes). but you don't hear modes unless you have a modal backing track. (if you play A minor over a C-E-G chord progression, it'll sound like C major because that's what you're playing)

on the picture, i put the C major scale. with all the positions. if you were to play a D major scale, you'd only slide everything up two frets. or if you were to play C#, slide everything up one fret (by up i do mean towards your guitar's pickups)

last thing, fingerings. there are only 3 fingerings to know in these scales, then it's just putting them in the right order.

(1 = index, 2 = middle, 3 = ring, 4 = Pinky)

|x--xx| you finger this pattern with 1 3 4
|xx--x| this one with 1 2 4
|x--x--x| this one with 1 2 4 also.

Hope this helps. this should take you a little while to get down.

Oh! remember, alternate pick all the way through when playing those scales.

I can make mine sound like a frog. :-\
That doesn't seem real useful for a song.

i guess that depends on what kinda music you wanna make.

Frogcore is the bomb diggity.

Well Paul McCartney wrote the "Frog Song"...

-Jackpot

*gets guitar*

*croak*

*bows*

*walks off stage*

ye gods. it's obvious i did this scale sheet in the morning. it's all crooked!

It's cool, seb. I'm pretty sure I still understand it.

It would be cool if we could discuss my musical progression further in the chat, but alas, this is no longer possible.

"Now for each wrong note you hit, you will receive a small electric shock."

This nonsense makes me sad.

Also, if you are an aspiring guitarist, always remember,






BUY SOME FREAKING PICKS!

Haha, yeah, im like the only guitarist in the group im in that has enough brains to NOT fingerpick/thumbstrum everything.

Theres a few people in my area that dont use picks only for the reason that they want to be different...It baffles me.

There's a small group of guys that I know who fingerpick everything. It's so damned annoying.

Of course one of them can sit and play Hendrix on an acoustic... so I'll let him play however he wants to..

"Now play it right this time, and remember: the wrong keys are electrified."