ive been playing for 4 months now. i practice just about everyday, anywhere from 30 min- 5 hrs a day. i take lessons once a week. my instructor says im advancing very fast. i finished my first "guitar method" book in 3 months. (right now in my class i am working on power chords, palm muting, etc) i can also play "sweet child of mine" by guns n roses almost perfectly all the way up to the solo (i could play only some of the solo slow) i really like playing. im "ok" at reading music (could get alot better) my personal practice routine includes warm ups, music reading, basic/power/bar chords, finger movement on the neck, messing around (trying to find new sounds) and working on an old/new song. what should i practice to get better faster??? anything else i should/could do??? my dream is to play the entire "stairway to heaven" song one day. any tips or advice? maybe a timeline?? thanks!
also i plan on taking a music theory class nest year in school (college)
Its Always practice.Play for accuracy and speed will follow. learn guitar theory. Not just music theory. Its important to understand that the guitar is constructed and tuned to fourths and a third. Get out of the box. Scales are first learned in a box pattern were your hand doesn’t move much up and down the fret board. Find your scales up and down a single string and move across from Low E to High on your fourths. Fourths Fourths Fourths. That’s the relationship of the first four strings. In-between b and g is a third. learn the major scale: two whole steps, one half, three whole steps, one half. (steps are equal to fret’s) Learn the pattern on one string then cross over to the next string on the fourth. Start the pattern in different places and you get a greater freedom of movement. Understand fourths. This will set you free. Stretch your fingers and finally find Richard Lloyd on the web. I learned all this off of his writings and my experience with its use. Ive been playing for 23 years. Good luck. O yeah and most important play what you want. If you keep looking you’ll find an exercise that you want to learn and a song that makes you hungry for more. Always play what you want.
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Its Always practice.Play for accuracy and speed will follow. Learn guitar theory. Not just music theory. Its important to understand that the guitar is constructed and tuned to fourths and a third. Get out of the box. Scales are first learned in a box pattern were your hand doesn’t move much up and down the fret board. Find your scales up and down a single string and move across from Low E to High on your fourths. Fourths Fourths Fourths. That’s the relationship of the first four strings. In-between b and g is a third. learn the major scale: two whole steps, one half, three whole steps, one half. (steps are equal to fret’s) Learn the pattern on one string then cross over to the next string on the fourth. Start the pattern in different places and you get a greater freedom of movement. Understand fourths. This will set you free. Stretch your fingers and finally find Richard Lloyd on the web. I learned all this off of his writings and my experience with its use. Ive been playing for 23 years. Good luck. O yeah and most important play what you want. If you keep looking you’ll find an exercise that you want to learn and a song that makes you hungry for more. Always play what you want.
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