Joshinsky
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Hey Guys
first of all, I want to thank all the members who create all this awesome DLCs.
So here is my story / problem
I started playing guitar when I was 12 (now 29) and had an on/off relationship with it, took lessons and learned the basics.
Then I got to the army, university and a job, a wife and so on (you get me :D ) And my extremly bad built strat was more an icon of my youth..
Until last year, when I got Rocksmith for the PS3 and my love for my guitar came back.
I quickly "relearned" all the things I had in guitar lessons, took all the basic stuff and lessons from rocksmith and a 10 weeks online course from a teacher I followed on youtube (which was awesome and helped a lot) And now I would consider myself as advanced beginner.
So now I know powerchords, pentatonics, some techniques like bending, hammer-on, pull-off etc..
but I'm kind of stuck...
There is so much in front of me..all the great techniques, so much to learn..and I don't know how to start
I have two books for genera learning, a book about getting better at pentatonics, esp speed and precision. I have hundreds of songs in rocksmith, have a lot of papers with sheet music etc
And here is the part where I'm asking for your help:
How do I create a lesson for myself: Let's say a I can learn 60-90 minutes a day.
My program now is as following:
10 min warm up..pentatonics, scales, strumming techniques
Then I take a lick or a riff and repeat it as often as neede until I can replay it without errors (and next lessen I repeat that)
After that I start rocksmith and pick some songs I want to learn or repeat
I feel, that I'm making progress, as my playing in rocksmith gets better, but I have the overall feeling of getting nowhere.
I got some DVDs from a friend from "Lick Library" with some stuff to learn.
So for the teachers here, and all the others:
How do you structure your lessons, what could I do, where should I focus?
Additional Info:
I play mostly metal or hard rock, try to be more open to other stuff, just to be open minded
Thank you all very much.
"Create" a lesson...
in Learning Guitar & Bass
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I take the (really hard) optimistic Approach and say I want to play in a Band.
And for me this means not only to replay Songs, but to get more creative and synchronize with other musicians. In case of rythm and mode.
So what I think I Need would be: Music theory, rythm techniques, left Hand coordination, and so on..
And I can't really get my head around learning all that in a well structured manner..
I know I can't put everythin in one lesson a day..that would shrink down everything to 5 minutes per lesson..
Let's compare this to Fitness:
I want to run a Marathon..I know this takes practice for a year etc.. I know I have to do short runs, Long runs, strength Training, Intervall runs etc.. but I have no idea to create a "plan" which helps me..
In case of a Marathon Training I know my Body Needs rest so I won't put to Long runs together and so on..but I can't find a way for my guitar Training.
I wanted to take guitar lessons again, but the first teacher I got was a total jerk..so now I want to Focus on teaching myself, which is pretty easy with YouTube etc..
I know that this sounds all a bit strange..but every evening after some playing..I feel I just improved the last song I played a bit, but not my actual Overall skills.
(Sry for some spelling Errors, writing this answer on mobile)