What I would tell a younger me starting out on guitar

[jonsguitargarage]

 

[TSJMajesty]

The first thing I'd tell 14 year-old me would be to grab that same Hal Leonard book series that I used when I first started playing clarinet, and start working through the ones for guitar.

 

[jonsguitargarage]

Someone posted a great comment on the video, "dudes are impressed by solos, girls are not!"

I thought shredding would impress all the girls when I was 12/13 then one day I played the intro to more than words in front of a few friends and the girls in the group kept asking me to play more.... But...but...Get The Funk Out solo!!!

 

[Eagle]

Ear training and then ear training and did I mention ear training.

 

[BahamaDada]

Ear training and then ear training and did I mention ear training.

THAT

and

Play as much with others as you can. Better players, worse players, players on your "level", who have a different (but ceomparable) skillset.

Every real life interaction / band situation with other players brings progress.

Why do I sleep away when listening to "modern guitar heroes"? Bc they are all elevated bedroom players.

By playing with others not only your skills grow. Your ideas also grow. And playing with others features one thing, that @Eagle just said: Playing by ear. "What's that chord? This? No, sounds wrong. This? Nah..." and so on.

That said when I was young I should have played so much more with others. When I was 16 I had all the time in the world. And the others most likely, too. Now we are either stricken up in work or have kids - or both - and have no time.

Gear wise:
Cheaper (but okay guitar) --> More expensive amp. Not the other way round. I can stand a Squier, but I can't stand a cheap shitass solid state amp (the surely are good noes, though).

 

[gearJunkie]

Play as much with others as you can. Better players, worse players, players on your "level", who have a different (but ceomparable) skillset.

 

[HomespunEffects]

I’d tell me to start on piano. Having everything laid out linearly make music theory easier to understand.

And I’d also tell myself to stick with bass. There aren’t enough bass players around.

 

[Aelred]

• Being in a band with friends instead of musicians may not end well for the band or the friendships.
• Buy a Klon and don’t unbox it.

 

[AFKAEjay(retired)]

Practice does not make perfect, practice makes permanent.
Quit shortcuts… know your basics..theory, scales, how to apply it, relate everything to ear/musical function.

 

[AFKAEjay(retired)]

Buy a Klon and don’t unbox it.

I did buy a ST 9 for 25,-…I sold a couple of years ago for 400,-
(4 knob tubescreamer)