LJ3
02-04-2016, 03:55 PM
I've been playing guitar for a long ass time. I should be a LOT better then I am. I hit a "plateau" about 10 years ago and never advanced from there. Everything I know and have mastered is very basic shit to any guitar slinger that can actually play. Some of it is laziness, some of it is ability, some of it is ADD. For whatever reason I stopped playing for a really long time not long after that plateau.
Anyway, my interest renewed last year and I picked it up again, cleaned my strat up, put new strings on a few guitars and started playing again but made zip progress against the plateau. Just playing the smae old shit I always played. Pentatonic minor scale AKA "the blues box" against a three chord blues progression. I started poking around on the net and there are a ton of little things you can pickup here and there. Lots of conflicting info as well. Tablature all over the place, blah blah blah...
I started getting interested in effects and tone for my strat and that has some new gadgets on board and I'm starting to try and learn a few new things. I'm looking for something that will let me smash barriers but I still haven't found it yet. There's tons of maroons out there that promised they have all the secrets and will send you their DVD collection for a couple hunnert bucks but none of them really look that good that I've seen.
The things is, I have a lot of the basics. I've been learning new types and positions of scales. This shit is HARD! :) But it's fun to see myself progress at least with fret board knowledge and getting thru scales.
I guess that's one of the main things I never took the time to learn is all the scales, their relative positions and when to use them for what type of chord progressions... So in a way it's back to the basic building blocks for me. I've committed that I'll have no new gear or gadgets until I have made significant progress in my current ability (as measured by me).
Anyway... I know we have at least a couple guitar players here. BBP and Big Sky. Anyone else? Anyone find anything on the innerwebs that helped them in any way?
I just got two tablature books for Zeppelin and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Most of it is pretty intimidating!
For those of you that don't know what a strat is... dis heah am a Strat. The best guitar in the world. (http://www.fender.com/guitars/stratocaster/view-all/)
Anyway, my interest renewed last year and I picked it up again, cleaned my strat up, put new strings on a few guitars and started playing again but made zip progress against the plateau. Just playing the smae old shit I always played. Pentatonic minor scale AKA "the blues box" against a three chord blues progression. I started poking around on the net and there are a ton of little things you can pickup here and there. Lots of conflicting info as well. Tablature all over the place, blah blah blah...
I started getting interested in effects and tone for my strat and that has some new gadgets on board and I'm starting to try and learn a few new things. I'm looking for something that will let me smash barriers but I still haven't found it yet. There's tons of maroons out there that promised they have all the secrets and will send you their DVD collection for a couple hunnert bucks but none of them really look that good that I've seen.
The things is, I have a lot of the basics. I've been learning new types and positions of scales. This shit is HARD! :) But it's fun to see myself progress at least with fret board knowledge and getting thru scales.
I guess that's one of the main things I never took the time to learn is all the scales, their relative positions and when to use them for what type of chord progressions... So in a way it's back to the basic building blocks for me. I've committed that I'll have no new gear or gadgets until I have made significant progress in my current ability (as measured by me).
Anyway... I know we have at least a couple guitar players here. BBP and Big Sky. Anyone else? Anyone find anything on the innerwebs that helped them in any way?
I just got two tablature books for Zeppelin and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Most of it is pretty intimidating!
For those of you that don't know what a strat is... dis heah am a Strat. The best guitar in the world. (http://www.fender.com/guitars/stratocaster/view-all/)