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Location: GA USA | Once again I'll recommend "The Heavy Guitar Bible", volume 1. It gives you the theory that a guitar player needs, and makes it easy to understand. Also explains chord structure and progressions, and pickups. You can usually find them on eBay for $10. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | 1. Workshoplive
2. Send our own Matt Smith an email
3. keep asking questions |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Once again I'll recommend "The Heavy Guitar Bible", volume 1. It gives you the theory that a guitar player needs, and makes it easy to understand. Also explains chord structure and progressions, and pickups. You can usually find them on eBay for $10. Yes and in my house it would look good on the end table with my coffee cup sitting on it. I want to study but soon find myself lost in space. :confused: |
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Location: GA USA | Then read it for fun. It's actually that readable. |
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Location: Germantown, MD | Fretboard Logic might be one of the best guitar methods ever.
I play pretty much by ear, but I studied enough music in high school to realize that playing by ear is a lot easier if you know some music theory--how scales and chords are put together and so forth. But Fretboard Logic reviewed the important elements of theory, applied them to the guitar, and made the instrument make a lot more sense. |
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| Hey Nice Guitar. Bought one for my Daughter to learn on. Nice sound actually for what it is. Beautiful tops too! for a similiar price the used "American" deep bowl models will be what you want once you get better at it. Just stay with it. I can tell you almost anyone can learn to play guitar. Any of the guy's who are very good on one have picked the same cord over and over and over and over. Repetition is the key. And Yes this will take a certain a mount of patience. You have to allow yourself to hear only the good sounds at first. Take the "D" cord and the "C" & the "G" cords and strum them and pick through them over and over until you can change between them quite well. A good teacher is worth the money to keep you from using bad picking techniques, and also what fingers to use when making the cords. If you are not careful you can develop bad habits that will haunt you later. I know I've seen me have to relearn them!
Randy most of all "HAVE FUN" |
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