how do you play guitar?

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       Ehm, ok... unless you already know everything since this thread has been up for a good while now:

1. Forget the piano when you're playing guitar. It's completely different. With the guitar you can easily play chords that you can't play on the piano with two hands.

2. The same theory applies to guitar as well. We have chords with 3 notes, the scales are easilyl found if you know how it goes, c is c, d# is d#... So you take the guitar, and go through the neck looking for all C s, and then you play the scales from it, finding exactly where the notes from the scales are.

3. With guitar the scale patterns for fingers are always the same with the exeption of the higher strings that are half a step lower, just to make it possible to press chords.

4. So you now know the scales, you realise you can form any chord you want with the knowledge you have. Nevertheless it's advisable to learn some by heart as you go. Play some easy, a bit silly even, songds and learn basic majors and minors, at least 2 ways of playing them, evenmore maybe, depending on what kind of music you're playing. 

5. Playing solos doesn't differ a lot from piano. You know the scales, and if you're really creative, you might even try to change them when a chord is changed.

6. For tricks: shredding without any idea what you're doing is pointless and sounds horrible. Pay more attention into staying in the scale, if not intentionally straying from it a bit on occations, like when playing in C it's common to go from G to A with quickly playing the G# there in between, but not letting it play for long. If you want to play quick, practise changing strings with both hands, but the basic quick bursts are easy on just one string and barely noticable.

To this it's easier when you know how to play the scale on 1 string, 2 strings, 3 strings etc... there are loads of places where you can find the C and more ways to go through the scale to it.

Just so that I wouldn't lose my paycheck with this, I'll give you one lesson. Play through the chords you know and after each play one type of scale through and then take the second chord and so on and so on. Example. C and c-major scale, G and g-major scale, D and d-major scale. Same thing with minors. And remember. There can be even 20 ways of playing C which all sound a tad different...

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Passionist Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 14 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 1119	Posted: October 18 2006 at 16:19
	Ehm, ok... unless you already know everything since this thread has been up for a good while now: 1. Forget the piano when you're playing guitar. It's completely different. With the guitar you can easily play chords that you can't play on the piano with two hands. 2. The same theory applies to guitar as well. We have chords with 3 notes, the scales are easilyl found if you know how it goes, c is c, d# is d#... So you take the guitar, and go through the neck looking for all C s, and then you play the scales from it, finding exactly where the notes from the scales are. 3. With guitar the scale patterns for fingers are always the same with the exeption of the higher strings that are half a step lower, just to make it possible to press chords. 4. So you now know the scales, you realise you can form any chord you want with the knowledge you have. Nevertheless it's advisable to learn some by heart as you go. Play some easy, a bit silly even, songds and learn basic majors and minors, at least 2 ways of playing them, evenmore maybe, depending on what kind of music you're playing. 5. Playing solos doesn't differ a lot from piano. You know the scales, and if you're really creative, you might even try to change them when a chord is changed. 6. For tricks: shredding without any idea what you're doing is pointless and sounds horrible. Pay more attention into staying in the scale, if not intentionally straying from it a bit on occations, like when playing in C it's common to go from G to A with quickly playing the G# there in between, but not letting it play for long. If you want to play quick, practise changing strings with both hands, but the basic quick bursts are easy on just one string and barely noticable. To this it's easier when you know how to play the scale on 1 string, 2 strings, 3 strings etc... there are loads of places where you can find the C and more ways to go through the scale to it. Just so that I wouldn't lose my paycheck with this, I'll give you one lesson. Play through the chords you know and after each play one type of scale through and then take the second chord and so on and so on. Example. C and c-major scale, G and g-major scale, D and d-major scale. Same thing with minors. And remember. There can be even 20 ways of playing C which all sound a tad different...

GabbleRatchet Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: October 09 2006 Status: Offline Points: 23	Posted: October 19 2006 at 12:04
	Lots of good advice from my fellow forum colleagues. Just a few words of encouragement really - quite a few people move successfully from piano to guitar. I'd treat them as different animals though. There are lots of different ways to learn. Some mode devotees practice religiously. Other players feel the urge to set fire to a mode if they see one! Their idea of 'practice' is a jam. Have a good think about the kind of guitarist you'd like to be and how it fits in with your piano 'n' flute. Flatpicker? Fingerstyle guru? There are some great albums made of just flute, piano and guitar, nothing else.

progismylife Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2006 Location: ibreathehelium Status: Offline Points: 15535	Posted: October 26 2006 at 06:07
	I would think it is best to start with a simple scale i.e., Minor Penatonic, and get that down as quickly as possible along with some other scales, so when you get better you are able to come up with more complicated things because of the scales you learned. I would also recommend looking up tabs on songs you like that do not sound too complicated.