What are the best ways to learn guitar?
 

There are multiple ways to learn guitar like online, home tutors and music schools but what will be the best one.

I prefer self teaching personally, academia bores the hell out of me and causes a loss of interest.

A good way to learn (to start with if self teaching) is to learn songs, a good way to learn songs in a sort amount of time would be to watch a cover, slow different sections down and transcribe what you see onto your instrument.

After you've got the notes down just keep playing the track over and over until you're playing it fluently.

It enables you to learn it without the notes being written down in front of you and also teaches you different techniques in the process. (depending of what you choose to learn ofc)

It's also helpful for applying the techniques you've learnt into your own style of playing.

Personally i've taught myself from youtube videos, online chords and learnt how to read tab. In about 8 months it's got me pretty far only playing every couple of days. I feel confident playing to other people and am able to make up my own riffs.

I learned most of my chords by way of a Beatles' songbook. Not that it helped much; I'm still a lousy guitarist, probably because I don't have the discipline for it, I guess.

It's not a one stop shop. Take some lessons with a tutor for rudiments, watch youtube videos, learn songs that you like, try new things out, learn how to teach yourself new ideas, jam with some mates if you have any that play (you can start a band or do it for fun, just try to work with other musicians on a somewhat equal playing field), and pay attention to what the guitarists that you like do both audibly and in videos.

Slip your guitar a twenty every now and then, and it'll play itself for you.

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Take it from Joe Pass.

I took about 10 lessons when I was a teenager and then taught myself the rest.

I am no guitarist but it depends on each person

For some, just observing someone can help you get started on playing the guitar.

You're probably the last person I'd take guitar lessons from.

Yes, good point. Not all guitar teachers are one-size-fits-all. There will be some that will be a bad fit for you and others that either have a similar mind to you or are pros who can teach you what you personally want to get from the instrument.

I heard standard notation is the way to learn and not tablature.

It is if you're a serious musician.

Problem is, you have to learn how to read it first.

:laughing:

Standard notation is definitely superior but tabs can also be useful for understanding the instrument and can help familiarize yourself with patterns and such. Mixed approach is best.

what worked out great for me was just listening to other people play guitar and not bother trying to do it myself

not playing the guitar is easy

I practice all the time. It’s become like second nature.

Is that the Alexander Technique? I've never really explored it.

I know it's a technique you're quite fond of as most things tend to go right over your head. (though that's assuming you read the posts you're replying to.)

Or...instead of being a little bitch you can actually really learn how to read music instead of just fronting like you joe pass

Oh, so nothing about guitar then?

I already do? I'm just giving advice. You'll get over the fact that I've been influenced by Pass one day.

He uses a toothpick and runs it across the guitar strings and calls it music.

i would too to be fair.

Toothpicks don't work very well for the sounds I try to get.

I’m sorry. I’m just giving you the business. I’m going to continue to harp on the Joe Pass thing for a while.

Put it this way, what if Chula said he was influenced by Keith Rowe?

Rowe uses loops, I could buy it. Plus influence is a personal thing, we all take different meaning from art so it's no surprise that being influenced by something could be reflected in a way other than imitation.

I got a bridge in the Bay Area you might be interested in.

Really depends on what your goal is.

The track Paris from my album "Me, Myself, and I".

https://memyselfi5.bandcamp.com/track/paris

Goddamnit.

Good **** dude.

It’s closer to Keith Rowe than Frown to Joe Pass. Cool track. Best thing I’ve heard from you.