Today I'm proud to announce that we will be offering a cool and special feature here at CustomsForge.This was actually recommended from a few members here and I want to thank you for the idea.

 

We're going to launch this section in the future and have special CDLC's that will help you learn new guitar techniques.

 

From anywhere from guitar scales to playing the bass quickly with your fingers, we will try to help you master ways to learn the guitar.Each CDLC will feature Dynamic Difficulty so you can begin at a steady pace and work your way up.

 

We still have to figure out how we're going to do this but this is definitely something I am interested in doing.If you have any ideas, please suggest them!

 

I warm up with "The Trooper"

 

 

 

 

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Great Idea.. looking forward to it.... It will help me a lot... cuz I suck on the guitar.

Excellent idea itt would be great to learn scales up and down the guitar

love this idea. A great way to learn!

 

As a drummer foremost, i learnt songs without learning the basics, it actually made it harder to play. Going back and relearning techniques made it easier to learn songs down the track.

 

I can play power chords on guitar, but suck at anything requiring any level of skill- an example would be Metallica songs- I'm Great until a solo comes along!

This is an excellent idea! I'm, like many others, "stuck" in beginner stage for several years now. Many lessons for different techniques and theory would really help.

Great stuff!  :)

It'd be great to have warmup tracks -- fingering exercises, especially, that we can run through for 5-10 minutes before getting into playing songs.

 

I would love to see this! 

AWESOME IDEA !!!

Cant wait for some of this :-P

great! i´m an absolute beginner right know, so all this stuff is more than welcome.

Great idea.  SA had a few called:

• You_Scale_Exercise_v1_p.psarc
• You_Pentatonic_Fretboard_v1_p.psarc
• You_Natural_Fretboard_v1_p.psarc
• You_Harmonic_Fretboard_v1_p.psarc
• You - 12 Bar Blues (Practice) v1.0_p.psarc

You should start with those.

Thank you for all your efforts...we appreciate all that you folks do :) 

You Scale Exercise v1

You Pentatonic Fretboard

 

Can't seem to find these files, can someone send me in the correct direction. thanks in advance

I've taken the exercises from Steve Vai's 30 Hour Workout & expanded out all the "etc"s up to fret 13 so there's more than the printed 1-2 repetitions of each pattern, & made each exercise its own section for Riff Repeater. I then recorded the output from GuitarPro w/ the metronome on & imported it to play around with. My main issue now is trying to figure out what an appropriate base tempo is for the audio track- I tried to imagine what a "skilled" player would play it at (pretty damn fast) & figure everyone else will be using riff repeater at 50% (or lower) to start off with- or should I be setting it lower overall? I don't really want to feel like a complete n00b by having to set the speed ridiculously low (not to mention it takes a while to set it down that far), but then again, you can always slow it down, but you can't make it go faster...

You might want to just make one at the higher end of the speed (200bmp?) since all good speed building exercises have one by first learning the movements really slow and gradually speed up only once you can play it perfectly at the current speed.

Sounds great th1rtyfOur can't wait to try it.

We could also use vocals to learn note/scale names! Exercises are an awesome idea!

I was actually thinking of having "lyrics" with the names of each exercise (e.g. "Angular Exercise II"), held for the duration of each section. Shouldn't be that hard to do. I should have some time to work on it this weekend.

 

On a related note, I've got a 'Glare Guitar School' magazine w/ a bunch of exercises from Teru & Hizaki of Versailles/Jupiter (among other v-kei artists), & 1 "song" by another guy that's basically a huge etude of multiple techniques, which might be fun to put in. The Versailles exercises are extremely short, though (10-37s), so I'd probably put them all in 1 "song" by sections, like the Steve Vai thing. You can see some of those here.

Here's me:  I'm 52 and started playing rhythm guitar when I was 11 - but I cannot read music and know very little about music theory.  So I feel that I've wasted 41 years.  I bought RS2014 (and recently the original) so that I could learn to play lead guitar.  So I'm an ol' dog trying to learn new tricks.  To be honest, most of the songs I've seen are geared to a younger audience (no, I didn't say all), so I must forego many of the custom DLCs that are available because they are groups and/or artists that I either don't care for or simply don't know.

 

That having been said, from what I've read within this thread alone I am interested in maybe learning by ear as one person suggested (if it can be done) and learning scales.  So I hope something will be forthcoming along these lines and look forward to whatever you folks with the real talent can create to assist folks like myself.

Allow me to thank you for this wonderful idea. Cheers!

30-hr workout posted! I suggest starting off at 40-50% speed. >_<

http://customsforge.com/topic/1750-30-hour-workout/

I think that would be a great idea

i also saw where i wolf said he new of some free ear training stuff

i would like to know more about that

also i have a question about custome dlc

i would like to see some old stryper songs like soldiers under command and stuff like that

Great idea, can't wait

My biggest issue is not losing my fingers when everything speeds up... I can play a lot of stuff, everything that i have learned from rocksmith, i just really have a problem with losing my fingers lower on the fret board.. Like down at fret 17, string 1, 2, and 3. Any tips on this?

I was thinking of putting together a piece of cDLC to help people create scale maps using a method called The Hopscotch Method.

 

I'm guessing that I can have different keys for the different difficulty levels..? And then allow people to change the speed themselves..? If I do things that way then you can have different keys and different BPMs in one piece of cDLC, right..?

 

No idea how this all works tbh, have started work on a song but thought I'd be better off doing something simpler to begin with whilst I get used to messing around with EOF lol

 

Am planning on doing one for each scale and was thinking about doing them with just a Metronome sound in the background.

 

Should I link to them here when done or should I upload them to the database..?

Should I link to them here when done or should I upload them to the database..?

I've put my finger exercises into the database and nobody complained about. Just put it into.The backing track of this finger exercise was a GuitarPro WAV-export. If you don't own GuitarPro, just use TuxGuitar which is able to export audio too. In my opinion, the sound quality isn't an important item, if you create a exercise track.If you really create this exercise (which, by the way, i would be interested in), you may use "Exercise" as the album name, just like i did. This would make it easier to find exercises within the database.