Topic: Question For The Guitarists Here!
Hey guys. I'm new to the forum, obviously. I'm not going to go into a real long story of my history, but I've been playing guitar for about 6 years, enough to have fair knowledge, but not enough to master I consider myself pretty good if I know a song inside and out, and I can improvise over the minor pentatonic scale pretty fairly, but that's about it. I just feel like I'm in a sort of rut, where I just sit and play the same old songs over and over again, and improvise in the minor pentatonic scale. (My mom got sick of Voodoo Child Slight Return, I played it so much ) So, I'm looking for some tips, if you guys wouldn't mind sharing!
Question One: I just can't get myself to actually learn a song fully. I want to learn Little Wing (Made a promise to a girl I would learn a beautiful song for her ), but I just sit there and play the intro and get frustrated with myself because I can't AUTOMATICALLY figure out how to do the rest from the tab. If I can see a video breaking down a song or be taught in person by somebody, I can steamroll through ANYTHING you throw at me, but this tab online just doesn't convey the timing of the songs at all. So, does anybody have any suggestions to get past this, or even ideas for somehow reformatting this tab to where I can easily see the timing? (I'm thinking maybe listen to the song and spend a TON of time doing the whole notation for rhythm thing, might take forever though)
Question two: I'm stuck with just playing 6-String Barchords, playing the minor pentatonic randomly over that, then moving to another chord in the Minor key I'm working in as far as improvising and such goes. Does anybody have some good tips for getting past this? I'd LOVE to get down to writing some strong music, but I just can't with what I'm doing right now. I'm going to further my knowledge of music theory, but some pointers would be GREATLY appreciated!
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