Odyshape

Any one see much wrong with this? I have been playing guitar for about half a year now and have pretty well only relied on learning things by myself and only play stuff I have made up. I am a little concerned though that once I run out of things to make up I could regress in my learning. I think I have made some decent progress from when I first started (I practice a few hours a day) and really enjoy learning this way and developing my own sound independent from other sources of influence but I was just wondering if any one else has had any experience like this. IF so how did it effect your long term motivation to keep with guitar?

Mrd00d

Well, I gotta say that after a while of playing in that fashion, I stopped playing. [I still like to pick one up now and again, but I have more success and fun playing drums]. But I don't think I ever put more than one hour of playing in a sitting and I never owned my own guitar.

My buddy, though... he learned to play this way and he's an excellent outside-the-box player and doesn't understand how anyone can learn to play music by studying music theory, memorizing chords/scales alone.

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Howard the Duck

i started out playing at 13 with an untuned guitar and just making stuff up

i think those days i made more interesting music than when i learnt proper theory

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Odyshape

@MrDood Hmm well I can sit on really long sessions I am extremely motivated to play and am just really want to make sure I can preserve it.
Oh interesting about your friend how long has he been playing for?

@Il Duce I hope my music im creating is interesting I am already quite interested in making an album I have 12 basic songs already.
What did you find proper theory did for you?

Howard the Duck

only that I can play other people's songs

later i learnt jazz compositionn and theory which opened up new doors to explore

otherwise, the stuff I played from 13 to 17 sounded pretty much like Captain Beefheart circa Trout Mask Replica

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Odyshape

Hahaha that sounds pretty cool I think ill pm you somethin of mine

I guess If Im satisfied I should really just keep with what im doing?

Howard the Duck

sure, but i suggest instead of trying for a melody or specific rhythm, you should just attack it randomly

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Odyshape

I do do that sometimes. Very similar feeling to being possessed by demons. hehe chinese funerals gonna have to look up what that sounds like

Psy-Fi

"Your guitar is a divining rod, use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod, if you're good, you'll land a big one."

"Old delta blues players referred to amplifiers as 'the devil box', and they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you're bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Caspar the ghost, a mandolin attracts Wendy, but an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub."

"If your brain is part of the process, you're missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing."

"Don't wipe the sweat off your instrument. You need that stink on there, then you have to get that stink onto your music."

All quotes by the late, great, Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)

Mrd00d

Yes, keep doing what you're doing and study theory if you'd like, but down obsess on it.

And my buddy has been playing for 10 years now, and has only recorded 4 songs. But that's his fault for not recording epic jams.

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