As a beginner guitar player, I've come to realize that most websites and videos that show what chords to play or how to play certain songs on guitar aren't right at all, at least with the lesser known songs. Finding the chords for any Beatles song? No problem, here's 700 different websites that all say the same thing. Finding the chords to a Beach House song? Good luck, that shits probably gonna be wrong. I hope I'm not alone in this.
Yeah it's a real faff. If you're willing to go on the journey I recommend learning to play by ear. It's not easy but it has so many other benefits in the long run.
I play for 17 years now, like the commentor before me said, do it by ear but let me add this, just know your chords,I mean all of them, Barrè, powerchords, regular chords and their alternative places, simple example: you can do the C chord multiple ways, and when you have more XP, you can learn solos by ear, note by note, I can copy a guitar solo just by liking that song too much haha, i say screw it, I pick up one of my favourite guitars and do it, I learned the entire 2 solos of the song called Lirika by Sektor Gaza in one hour. Good gear also helps, don't let people say otherswise: like: it's not the guitar but the guitarist, now that's half true and half false, good gear helps, you'll get better sound and that inspires you to play more
From what i can tell, this feeling is mutual with many instruments, i myself am learning keyboard/piano ig and theres so many of my favourite songs that either have non-existintent tutorials or sheet music, or they do and they are so incredibly off, that its practically a different song all together
@@IamyeslolI don’t get this comment but I’m neither mexican nor american and my nationality is not even remotely close to either 😭😭 (The guitar is not even mexican)
@@Littleb0dybigh3art Well I'm talking when on the internet there is some americans that get offended by other offensive things towards other ethnicities so im just saying you don't play guitar yet you still feel the pain of these troubles like you do play guitar
when you plug the guitar in, doesnt make a sound, you panic and turn and the knobs to the max and max out the volume, then scare the shit out of yoursel
my biggest guitar pain is when the ultimate guitar tabs are wrong Edit: Aight yall i need to make it clear this was a joke, ive been playing by ear on piano since I was 5, and i do the same with guitar since I started 2 years ago unless its some insane shit to play lmaoo
@@user-hi7em5co2b songsterr is not that great either. Few years ago I tried looking at the tabs for Slipknot - Vermillion and whoever was tabbing it out gave up during the solo lmao. Check back years later and it remains incomplete to this day. Not to mention many of the tabs there are simply wrong. tl;dr just learn the song by ear.
Or when you actually install the app and it just redirects you there everytime you wanna learn something and you end up uninstalling it because of how long it takes just to show the actual tabs
Trick for easily retrieving lost picks that’s helped me tons in the past: If u take the guitar and line the pick that’s inside up so it’s directly under the sound hole, then swing it above ur head in one quick motion so that the pick is above the sound hole, the pick will just fall right out super easily. The centrifugal force will keep the pick in place (provided u do it fast enough). You want to be careful not to hurt yourself from the movements needed and be careful to stop when the guitar is upside down otherwise you just make it worse. Hope this helps
Any instrument falling is pure pain. I remember getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and kicking my keyboard off the couch outta the blue😭
I always wait until I've dropped 10 or so picks into the abyss before I perform the shake of shame. This greatly improves the chance of retrieval of at least one pick.
Steel strings and nylon strings are both good at their own thing. Neither are better than the other, if you think steel strings are bad cause they hurt that's a you problem.
I knew i would be performing live one day so I also practiced guitar while walking around my apartment in tight spots while maneuvering me and my guitar through them while still playing to simulate passing other musicians on stage,played while balancing on street curbs and even while riding a bike. Helped turn me into a very animated guitarist on stage. Always pass right and always keep playing no matter what...unless,of course,you fall off the stage..lol
The fact that this translates almost directly into cello (my instrument) is so funny. Like being able to play one string instrument is universal understanding
@@nuclear_war_games I think it’s better to start on guitar, you don’t need to play ukulele first. If anything playing ukulele then switching to guitar would just make it harder for you to get used to how far away the frets are from each other and how much the strings hurt when you first start playing.
The worst two here are your guitar colliding with everything, even if you walk half a meter with it. The second being, you think you’ve safely situated it on its stand, but it falls over and the feeling of regret after that is unbeatable. I’ve experienced both. More than once.
trick for getting the pick out: slide it around until you can see it directly centered under the opening, then quickly flip the guitar upside down. it'll drop out and won't go flying like if you're just shaking it around. (hope this makes sense, its hard to describe)
so glad im an electric player, but back when i was a kid i played acoustic and this was a real mental test especially when you have 1 pick that you like to use
@@benjaminhartmann4522 fuck that shit Pay money for some bs i could find for free on yt Im just saying so the pick just bounces off onto the floor instead of into the great unknown of the "resonation chamber"
As a guitarist the pick not coming out of the hole, tuning the guitar wrong, hitting the guitar on the wall, bar chords not playing properly and the guitar falling immediately after putting it down is all very annoying
My guitar has a boost switch but without a battery it just mutes it and every time i take it in and out of the bag to go to lessons, all the knobs and switches get hit in some way so sometimes it just puts out no sound or sounds bad and i need to spend a moment to figure out why. Some times it's been that someone was messing with the knobs on the amp too though.
I play bass so like none of this is applicable to me, but being taught how to “play” chords in secondary school music lessons and it just sounding wrong is something I can relate to 😭
I just switched from a stratocaster to a prs semi hollow body and I'm constantly tuning the wrong strings lmfao. I could only imagine the pure horror of dropping a pick in there.
