Dear Tomo,
First of all thank you for all your insightful videos here on Guitar Wisdom, they've really helped me understand more foundational and some advanced concepts about playing the guitar. I'm very grateful!
My name is Tom (22 years old) I'm from Hungary and I've been playing guitar for 6 years and started learning from Guitar Wisdom march 2023. I've been practicing mostly everyday things like, chromatic scale, right/left hand technique and muting, major minor diminished triads, dominant, major and minor 7th chords and their inversions (of course all these things would be too much information for one practice session so i practice different things on different days). Yet despite practicing these things I dont exactly feel confident about my playing and i think thats mostly due to not having something of a speciffic goal thus i just practice aimlessly. Currently my real goal is to be the best guitar player i can be, maybe if i got more speciffic I'd say that i want to learn how to do jazz or really any kind of improvisation.
Could you maybe give some advice on how to set speciffic short-term goals in order to see the progress I've made or at least get a better idea on what should i practice more of? This might be more of a YouTube video idea and if I shouldn't request it here on GW then I apologise. Also I'm aware its difficult to give speciffic advince without knowing the person but if you have any other advice that you think would be helpful to me then i'd be incredibly grateful!
Thank you for your help in advance and please take care!
Sincerely,
Tom
You're very welcome! Thank you for sharing! So happy to hear that!
Good job! You have been studying here over one year. Like anything, if you want to do well... it will take a few years.
You got those techniques and knowledges so you can play songs. Melody, chord progression. Blues is good!
Do you record yourself often? Only way to improve yourself is to record yourself often.
Practice with a metronome and work on your time feel! Maybe your goal can be... "Time Feel" "Dynamics" Maybe one more!
Do this, play anything you know/you can... record yourself. Listen it and tell yourself, what do you think?
You can request anything! Ask anything! I don't do if I can't do. But if I can do comfortably then I would.
So ask more specificly what you really want to do. (To be the best guitar player?) What exactly?
I would love to give everyone some general advice.
Thank you.
Tomo
Hi Tom,
I'd say think of how you can apply what you learning, as Tomo said, blues is good. That is what I'm doing at the moment working on blues progressions and trying to apply the moving bassline, rhythm with R 3 7 chords, and trying improv over a progression using on string scales, one octave scales, triads etc. and trying to learn the theory of how to do this by studying the greats. Like I found a video on Clapton using stock phrases in his solo and improv, so learning which chord tones to hit, which ones to bend (i.e. bending the 4th to a 5th or b5 (minor blues scale) depending on my feeling or whether I want to hit the blues note (b3 in a major blues scale) in a major or minor progression). I was even trying to do voice leading exercises over a progression and trying to make changes to chords in the same area as each other, for example.
I think that's this part, the application aspect, is the toughest part. But slow and steady wins the race! :)
Thank you for sharing!
Little by little, blues, rhythm guitar, triads... Yes! I still practice R 3 7 swing groove with slow tempo.
Yes! Clapton is amazing! Listen his Blues Breakers album! So good!
Guitar is so amazing! I am so thankful!
Tomo