Beginners Corner

first song played, what do u guys think?<3

Hi all, im kinda nervous to post a video (had sweaty hands during recording haha), but as so many of you putting vids on, I thought I should give it a go. Its me practising solo of Warmness on the soul. About a month ago i changed how i hold my pick and to not let my pinky rest on the guitar. I would really appreciate some advice, I think i should add more vibrato (and i find that difficult) to make the sound warmer i think. Any other feedback is also welcome

Punk rock/ pop punk was my first love....aside from classic rock. I’m trying to learn this for my brother ! 😊 I’m pretty happy with how far my palm mutes have come. I’ve found though I have a hard time doing them well on other guitars. I’m most comfortable playing my strat. Also, I know I need to work on alternate strumming....but I mean it’s punk... ya gotta go hard with the down stums 🙃 plus it’s fun and I’m all about having fun ! Haha that being said, I did try to build up some tension and “slowly” go into the open chords.... not sure if I achieved that well enough though.

Here's my first ever attempt at fingerpicking! It's something I never thought I'd find myself doing, so it's gonna be a long road of hard work to get somewhere, but I wanted to be able to show my progress as I keep working at it and improving, so here's the first step! It's messy, it's rambling, it's probably not very clear and there's a whole list of things to work on, but I'm already proud of myself for picking it up in the first place and managing to wrap my head around how the basics work (Thanks to the lessons on here, of course!) I'll be updating with more videos as I go, gonna make this my main little project for a while (Like NRtD was). Hope you enjoy!

Hi all :) Edit: Thanks so much for all the great advice and encouragement, it's awesome! I joined here 5 days ago and this is my progress so far The fastest I can play the chromatic scale is 45bpm at the moment. Question about the chromatic scale... The video in the beginners' section says that, when ascending, you need to read all the accidentals as sharps and descending all the accidentals as flats (for example: D, D#, E, F, F# G and then descending G, G flat, F, E, E flat, D and so on. ) I am not quite in that habit yet.. I already play an instrument and came into the habit of just calling G flat F# for example because it's the same note.. is this a problem?

Probably the most “real and raw” video I’ve uploaded. Took the advice I got on my last video and had been playing all day on my electric. I was getting ready for bed and saw my acoustic sitting in the kitchen and decided to just hop on and attempt a more chill, mellow version. Excuse my tired face ! The melatonin was kicking in 🤣

Keep on trying to play standing up. I love these punk songs to practice because they are short but intense and really fun to play 🎸🤟🏴‍☠️

Working on my vibrato. Vibrato is like the fingerprint of the guitarist and I’m working on finding MY sound 💕 Single notes are a bit different for me as I tend to only play them when I practice scales. I typically always choose songs with open chords or power chords to play, so this is fun and different for me.

Standing up for @[5:@Jak Angelescu] 😘 (the acoustic is light) Intro and main riff.... Playing around with the katana...never really used it but it does give those bass notes a little punch which is cool. Standing up playing this is AWKWARD, but at the same time kind of fun lol. Maybe eventually I’ll look cool doing it ! 😎

Beginner section: Practicing the c major scale and major scale. This is my first training video on the scales. I know I'm still green on the guitar I would like to know what you think and if you could give some tips to improve? Cheers

@[5:@Jak Angelescu] said we should play standing up, so here I go!!! This is my first try 😄 Come on beginners, LET’S STAND UP AND PLAY!! 🤣

In order to expand my musical knowledge I learned all positions of the (C) major scale so I can use the CAGED system and lessons more efficiently. Also training to play standing up, which is quite hard if you haven't done it a lot. Still struggeling playing ANYTHING with my pinky below the twelve.

I was challenged by Dominik Graeber to attempt this awesome riff !

Some weeks ago I asked about easy but a bit challenging solos to help me improve my technique. Some students suggested some cool stuff to start working. I made a list and Californication is the first one of a pretty long list (by suggestion of @[7809:@Jesse Salmons] - thanks my friend 👍) I’ll be learning the full songs, not only the solos. I started working on Californication a few days ago and there’s still some mistakes. The idea is posting again in a few days and check my progress.

Y’all I’m exhausted. I’m usually good at articulating what I need help with but it feels like my brain is just shutting down on me ! Lol

The video is from a botched take where I played the last part on the wrong string, so ignore that lol. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with this. It's a li...

I just made this video about where I currently am with the advanced introduction to sweep picking lesson. It was interesting to see this video for me as I can truly listen and see what I am doing. Any feedback is welcome!

Disclaimer: literally 8 minutes of me screwing around, so keep scrolling if you’re not prepared for the randomness lol. Seriously though, I really enjoyed noodling yesterday and figured I’d just hit record and play and go at it again. If any of my other beginners aren’t doing this I highly recommend it. Yes, this is only my second time doing so, but just recording myself and playing twice I’m noticing a certain feel and sound I keep going back to when I’m just playing and not thinking too hard about it, and I’m realizing this could be a great way to find MY sound ! ❤️ There’s also a moment in here where you can actually see my facial expressions change and I get a more serious look because I played a couple power cords and had an idea, and it was like I could hear what I wanted in my head, but had to try and figure out how to get it out.

First time noodling. I debated whether to post this or not. But, I know emotions can often be conveyed musically when our words fail us. As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve had a shit day and am just releasing that tension. After playback I see I was really feeling that E power chord 😂

I work retail.... feeling some type of way, as soon as I got home from work I had to vent some frustrations ! Lol. Guitar is good for that for me and also a way to relax ! This song is definitely a vibe for me today! I am a beginner, but I’m starting to feel rhythm is my “home”, I love playing rhythm and I feel I can get good at it if I just keep practicing ! 👍🏻

Went back and viewed lesson 16 on which incorporated some strumming patterns. I feel like I’m more comfortable with some of them and I utilize the ones I’m comfy with here !!

Relearned this etude and now finally comfortable enough to play it to a metronome. Set to 80 bpm currently. Also sorry for the ramble in between. I hate mistakes so I often do some random shit when they happen haha

I wanted to give an update to one of the videos I posted last week to a discussion thread on the etudes. This one is alt picking 1 (plus a little extra because I was feeling frustrated tonight). I'm still working to improve my speed. Improvement seems slow but hopefully I'll be able to look back on this and see a real difference. And this past week I got so much advice from you all here it was wonderful, hopefully I won't let it go in one ear and out the other. So thank you everybody for being the awesome people you are and keep the suggestions coming. ~Kai

trying to get this Etude right. What I like about strict alternate picking this is that it's really easy to accent the notes on which the beats fall if you play with a metronome. But I really have to start from the beginning again.