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  1. J

    Guitar If you could give just 1 pro tip regarding guitar/practicing, what would it be?

    Record yourself practicing every so often. It doesn't need to be complicated, just a quick video on your phone will do. It's sometimes easier for me to notice and fix my errors watching back my video than when I'm trying to nail something in the moment.
  2. J

    Transitioning and strum patterns

    As far as transitioning goes, one of the best things you can do is just write a ton of chord progressions and see how different chords react with one another. Start off by doing this in one key. You'll notice that the V chord and the VII chord are very unstable and want to resolve. going from V...
  3. J

    Economy or alternate

    I agree with what everyone has said so far, learn both. You'll probably notice that each picking style sounds different. Eco sounds a bit more "smooth" whereas alternate is more "punchy." If you're proficient at both thats more skill you'll have in your tool belt to pick from when you wanna make...
  4. J

    Underrated guitarists

    Lindsay Buckingham Not unknown but definitely underrated IMO Even a song like Rhiannon sounds so simple but is pretty tricky rhythmically
  5. J

    Soloing Over Chords

    I think it'd be really helpful to take a step back and look at the chords and build up from there. Lets say you have a progression that goes | Dmi | Gmi | A | and repeats. First I would say to pick a single position (pattern of the caged system) and stay there for the time being. Then start the...
  6. J

    Choosing which scale to play over a progression

    Thanks papa gates I’m glad I was able to get some things across in that huge post. It means a lot coming from you
  7. J

    Choosing which scale to play over a progression

    I haven’t seen much of this topic here so I thought I’d give my best shot at explaining what scale you should use when you’re soloing over a certain progression. The simple solution is to look at the chords. Lets start with triads: Ddim |Gmi| Cmi|| This would be a ii-v-i in the key of C minor...
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