Learning Guitar & Bass

I just thought I'd throw this out there for anybody looking to learn theory. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/for_beginners/learning_music_theory_the_beginning.html This article has been absolutely superb for me but it may be missed by many, with it being posted quite a while ago. Hope it helps :)

This progression slash played on the Ellen show (starts at 3:47) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJFx6VOdCoEI hear it all the time, does anyone know what the progression is?

Hey guys, I was wondering what you guys do for practice and learning songs outside of rocksmith. I can read tab and such but obviously not all tabs are great and I find it very hard to play along with a song that I know would be incredibly easy in the game. For example, right now im trying to play My Hero by the Foo Fighters. Its mostly power cords and such, but for some reason I just can't get my timing down. Is there anything you guys recommend? Or do I just need to keep on attempting to play along with the song?

I am completely self taught. I have been playing Bass for about 4 or 5 months and I can play a great many songs to 80 or more percent. My problem is not knowing how to place my fingers correctly. I shy away from songs that require a great deal of finger placement. I find myself almost always using my index and middle finger. Then when I want to play some great blues songs with fantastic bass riff's, there is no way for me to keep up. Watching some of those great YouTube videos of people playing their bass's and seeing how smoothly their fingers move across the frets just cements the fact that I am definitely not doing it correctly. Help a brother out. Is there some wo…

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My sugestion is http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf5WyhQHoYKy2ZcY1l51w7A :-P

Hi All I found quite useful jammmz.com for recording your playing and people vote gor it. Just use your rocksmith cable and guitar rig software for recording.Worth checking

Many times I see the chord: ----- ----- --7-- ----- --5-- ------ However, I guess I am not one hundred percent sure how to play it. In rock smith, it only shows the yellow (5) and the orange (7) notes, and I strum the second, third, and forth strings. However Rocksmith doesn't show the third note, the blue one to strum. How do you play that chord? Some say mute the third string. I am not even sure how to do just that.

Hey, I’m still getting to grips with all this guitar playing, but if there’s one thing that frustrates me it’s my fingers in ability to stretch across frets and stay put! I’m struggling to play Bliz Bop with the 5/7 chord because my fingers keep retracting on themselves if that makes any sense? Are there any basic exercises I can do to help? I’ve seen a 3/5/7 chord in a Linkin Park song I want to learn and thought I may as well give up now if I can’t manage 5/7! Cheers Rob

I've been learning ever since RS2014 came out and I've been constantly practising, but I feel that I've kind of hit a wall so that I can't get much better without being able to alternate pick. I hold my pick correctly, but my upstrokes just always sound and feel off, and it doesn't sound good when I try to alternate pick (and I can only do it relatively slowly).Does anyone know any ways I could get better at this?

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Wasn't too sure where to post these but here is as good a place as any. The first video here is a handy way to learn how to play your scales up and down the neck by combining the different boxes of each Pentatonic position to make one big box, or scale map: This second one is how to combine the Minor and Major Pentatonic Scales into one box shape for each position, and of course you can (and should!) combine this with the scale mapping idea above: Not too sure what you'd call the scale...Pentatonic Mijor perhaps..? Or maybe there's a proper name for it lol :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Please feel free to add more to this thread that you've found useful. :…

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Anyone have any tips on getting better at this? I find it really hard when playing stuff like Metallica when you have to alternate pick a palm-mute very fast then strike a non-muted chord and then back up to the mutes. Do you generally move you palm back or upwards off the strings to release mute?

I have had a guitar since 2008, a Samick explorer model, and been dabbling every so often since, and rekindled the flame with Rocksmith. I tend to hold the pick pinching between my thumb and my forefinger, sometimes being supported by the middle finger too while resting my hand on the bridge. My question is, is this ok to hold the pick for the blues-thrash metal genres that I'd like to cover, or do I need to hold the pick differently and basically re-teach myself on picking? (the way I hold it and how I rest my arm on the body/bridge is really comfortable)

A few years back I picked up a guitar magazine with an article by Steve Vai called "Freak Show Excess." It has several pages of intense excersizes covering all manner of guitar playing as well as training tips and insight from Vai himself. They cover a program that Vai believed would help make someone a much better player with practice of his key concepts. It might make an excellent base for a set of guitar training excersizes. I lack the skill and fluidity to play them myself, but if anyone would like them to start a project of their own, I can provide you with them. -k