Brandon Breeze
Active member
Putting myself on blast here. So, I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I don't really know, or hang out with musicians. I would like to actually learn some new stuff this year, and by some, I mean a lot.
I've been playing guitar for a number of years, played in garage bands many years ago. Took lessons for less than a year, and likely forgot most of it. I have an awesome family of gear, and want to make better use of it. I can play really fast, and while there are no rules in rock n roll, musically my fast playing makes no sense. That's because I just use shapes, rather than notes that are organized by a key/scale etc. I learned A minor pentatonic, and that's about the only scale I know.
Here's an example of my fast playing with a shape. This shape simply uses the 1st, 3rd, & 4th finger in their relative positions based off of their location on your hand. I learned this loosely from Paul Gilbert's Terrifying Guitar Trip video. I can do the same with many shapes like 1, 2, & 4, play them up and down the neck at will, or stretch out the fingers to skip frets, skip strings etc. While this is impressive to folks that don't play guitar, or to guitar players with little to no aptitude, I know it makes zero sense musically.
Here's a Rythym based off of the same shape:
The most complex thing I've ever learned, an excerpt from Yngwie's Arpeggios From Hell. Not in any way trying to show off here, quite the contrary. I share this only to show that I have the capability of learning "advanced" type of stuff even though I consider myself beginner to intermediate at best.
I have this book, I'm sure it has everything I've wanted to learn forever. Simply put it's information overload for me. I have very little time to spare these days and as I get older it's a heck of a lot harder to learn new stuff, and retain it.
The whole point of this thread is to hopefully get some insight from you guys that are much more skilled than I am, and point me in the direction of a way to learn that may be a bit less tedious. I'm not a fool, I know it takes a lot of practice, dedication, and hard work to be awesome at guitar. At the same time I work 50+ hours a week, and have a pretty random work schedule(retail), so I don't have the luxury of taking lessons from a local teacher.
All excuses aside, I want to learn more than ever.
I've been playing guitar for a number of years, played in garage bands many years ago. Took lessons for less than a year, and likely forgot most of it. I have an awesome family of gear, and want to make better use of it. I can play really fast, and while there are no rules in rock n roll, musically my fast playing makes no sense. That's because I just use shapes, rather than notes that are organized by a key/scale etc. I learned A minor pentatonic, and that's about the only scale I know.
Here's an example of my fast playing with a shape. This shape simply uses the 1st, 3rd, & 4th finger in their relative positions based off of their location on your hand. I learned this loosely from Paul Gilbert's Terrifying Guitar Trip video. I can do the same with many shapes like 1, 2, & 4, play them up and down the neck at will, or stretch out the fingers to skip frets, skip strings etc. While this is impressive to folks that don't play guitar, or to guitar players with little to no aptitude, I know it makes zero sense musically.
Here's a Rythym based off of the same shape:
The most complex thing I've ever learned, an excerpt from Yngwie's Arpeggios From Hell. Not in any way trying to show off here, quite the contrary. I share this only to show that I have the capability of learning "advanced" type of stuff even though I consider myself beginner to intermediate at best.
I have this book, I'm sure it has everything I've wanted to learn forever. Simply put it's information overload for me. I have very little time to spare these days and as I get older it's a heck of a lot harder to learn new stuff, and retain it.
The whole point of this thread is to hopefully get some insight from you guys that are much more skilled than I am, and point me in the direction of a way to learn that may be a bit less tedious. I'm not a fool, I know it takes a lot of practice, dedication, and hard work to be awesome at guitar. At the same time I work 50+ hours a week, and have a pretty random work schedule(retail), so I don't have the luxury of taking lessons from a local teacher.
All excuses aside, I want to learn more than ever.