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Can you learn GUITAR in 1 yr?
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Date: December 19th, 2012 12:24 PM Author: Boyish Dilemma Psychic Assuming 1 hr practice/day and 170 lsat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22280478) |
Date: December 19th, 2012 12:42 PM Author: insanely creepy rehab jap def not, your dick's too small, which means you have little hands which means the guitar isn't for you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22280550) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 12:43 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy To what level? You can definitely learn to play some songs you know and like competently in a year, assuming you have a basic sense of rhythm,normal hands, and are not tone deaf. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22280558) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 12:44 PM Author: Indigo pit milk just do flamenco bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22280563) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 3:57 PM Author: insanely creepy rehab jap Yeah srsly tho learn chords, then it's all about getting comfortable w/ different strumming patterns and being able to change chords and keys without thinking about it. G, C, D, E, A, F. Fuck bitches; get money. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22281499) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 4:12 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy you're alive about 20 years to late to fuck bitches on some guitar bullshit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22281548) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 4:16 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy mediation sad but true.
you're probably better off getting an imac and remixing shit |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 4:21 PM Author: Talented twisted skinny woman credited to have a vinyl collection.
"you *have* to hear it on vinyl. i have the lp at my apartment" |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 4:30 PM Author: titillating keepsake machete base gen x, guitar playing bro here
why oh why did I not get in a band when I was in college |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:34 PM Author: scarlet telephone not true, if you can play even basic major chord progressions (and know a handful of popular 4 chord songs) you will instantly have an advantage at parties. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282310) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:38 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy mediation i fucking hate that guy at parties. he's actually annoying everyone. hth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282324) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:42 PM Author: scarlet telephone he annoys me too but sorry bro chicks like that.
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:58 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy (guy in high school) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282429) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 7:01 PM Author: scarlet telephone evidence suggests otherwise. there's no age where women stop liking guys who can play guitar, especially cheesy 4 chord songs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282456) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 9:50 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy maybe dumb women. most are unimpressed at some point unless you're really good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22283449) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 10:41 PM Author: scarlet telephone lots of women are dumb.
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Date: September 19th, 2014 12:53 PM Author: Jet Duck-like Menage Boistinker especially the smart ones (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#26357142) |
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Date: February 1st, 2014 11:35 PM Author: Iridescent Free-loading Dragon Indian Lodge however, if you go to parties where the people are cool, playing guitar is welcome. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939717) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 4:14 PM Author: Talented twisted skinny woman you can learn to read tabs in 15 mins. the rest is just practicing/muscle memory. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22281556) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 4:22 PM Author: Blue Nursing Home Deer Antler easily, bro. easily. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22281577) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 4:26 PM Author: honey-headed french chef I was quite accomplished in 6 mos. Play more than an hr when you do though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22281599) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 4:27 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy *squeaks and stumbles through blackbird* *is "quite accomplished" on guitar* |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:28 PM Author: honey-headed french chef Nigga please. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22281964) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:30 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy Sorry *stumbles arhythmically through sweet child o'mine riff* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22281973) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:44 PM Author: Doobsian potus A++++ would traverse subthread again!!!1 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282045) |
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Date: February 1st, 2014 10:46 PM Author: diverse son of senegal stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939451) |
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Date: February 1st, 2014 11:58 PM Author: Frum cerebral locus international law enforcement agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939850) |
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Date: September 19th, 2014 12:50 PM Author: adventurous theatre (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#26357127) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 4:29 PM Author: titillating keepsake machete base just buy Rocksmith on ps3/xbox, play on expert mode for two hours a day, and make $$, bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22281619) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:15 PM Author: Buck-toothed school water buffalo Yes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22281886) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:26 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy Guitar is probably the easiest instrument to play at a minimal level of competence, i.e. well enough to play songs you like adequately.
Getting really good at guitar has some big hurdles though. I mean I still don't think it's as hard to master as violin or trumpet or something, but there's a huge difference in the effort needed to get from beginner to knowing how to play the whole beatles catalog, vs getting from that to high level playing. |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:34 PM Author: mustard piazza I agree with your first statement, disagree with your second.
High end guitar finger picking involves playing rhythm and lead simultaneously sort of like piano (albeit with much more restrictions in the notes available). With violin, you're never really doing more than simple chords and isolated notes. The technique is hard to master but once you get that to a high enough level the only axis you can really improve on is speed. |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:40 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy Yeah but a violin has a tiny neck with no frets, and bowing is harder than picking. Just mastering playing in tune with good intonation can take years and people who don't have the ear for it often never get there.
I still agree that there's a steep learning curve getting past the "beginner" level on guitar even though doing beginner shit is pretty easy. |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:00 PM Author: cracking range national security agency good point, French horn must be even easier because those faggots only ever play one note at a time
*blank stare* |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:34 PM Author: laughsome station weed whacker What if I mostly want to slam out shitty punk rock riffs? Couple weeks of a few hours a day? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22281989) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:36 PM Author: mustard piazza yes and it won't take a year.
punk rock is based on power chords, two note pseudo chords that are all formed the exact same way.
you can probably learn to play any punk you want in six months at that schedule. |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:37 PM Author: laughsome station weed whacker Cool man. Might do this. I don't have much desire to be terribly good at guitar but I'd like to be able to fuck around and make noise. I hear electric is pretty damn forgiving too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282006) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:45 PM Author: Doobsian potus it's just laughably easy to move around on the neck of an electric guitar - acoustic you have to put way more pressure on to fret, usually, unless you have an excellent acoustic guitar + great technique so you can handle the fast action (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282051) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:41 PM Author: aromatic senate he could probably learn to play power chords in 1 month (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282029) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:42 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy Learn to finger them, yes. Learn to actually play a song in rhythm without fucking up, no. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282038) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:47 PM Author: Doobsian potus if you don't innately have the rhythm to strum a punk song you should gas self i honestly don't understand the kind of person who thinks rhythmically strumming is hard on a guitar - i literally never once thought about it; it came innately and i assume anyone with any hope of ever becoming musical is the same i mean it's like fucking genetics man, humans are rhythmic creatures just look at shitty african tribes that don't even have a written language, they can all bang shit out in rhythm |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:50 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy csb, but I stand by my post. The rhythm plus COORDINATION to actually play a punk song well (like to actually be able to play it strongly and IN TIME WITH A BAND -- so many guitar amateurs overestimate their own ability to do this) will take a complete musical novice considerably more than a month, in all likelihood (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282070) |
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Date: February 1st, 2014 10:53 PM Author: passionate snowy theater stage goal in life Yeah, even most brain-dead easy songs like No Woman No Cry require some practice to get the correct timing down (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939495) |
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Date: February 1st, 2014 10:33 PM Author: passionate snowy theater stage goal in life *thinks he's playing in time* *whistles past the graveyard* |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:56 PM Author: titillating keepsake machete base 1 month? Try an hour.
My first day playing guitar I was sloppily playing Cream's "Smoke on the Water", "Iron Man" by Sabbath, and the intro to "Crazy Train" |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:09 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy if you're content with sloppily "playing" things, then yeah, sure.
I learned to "read french" in a day, by which I mean stumble moronically through the pronunciation without knowing what I was saying. Who gives a shit? What use is that? This is a masturbatory, instant gratification mentality that doesn't lead to any real accomplishment. |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:11 PM Author: titillating keepsake machete base I'm just saying its not that hard to learn power chords, or to get all tingly when you get the intro to "Come as you Are" by Nirvana exactly right for the first time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282169) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:11 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282173) |
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Date: February 1st, 2014 10:26 PM Author: multi-colored indecent den ceo "Cream's 'Smoke on the Water'" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939308) |
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Date: February 1st, 2014 10:44 PM Author: passionate snowy theater stage goal in life Titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939445) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:37 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy It will take you more than a few weeks to develop the finger strength and callouses and the muscle memory to do it seamlessly. Also depends on whether you've ever played any other instruments. A person with a musical background is going to pick it up very quickly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282005) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:39 PM Author: laughsome station weed whacker No musical background. Thanks braj. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282012) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:41 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy Yeah I'd say a few months to get to where you "feel" like you can do it, and probably 6 mos to a year to get to where you can actually do it in time with a band. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282025) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:59 PM Author: titillating keepsake machete base its really all about getting your fingers in good shape, learning 5-6 chords and a few scales, how to do power chords (super easy), and learning how to strum in proper time. Later on you can begin to figure out IRL songs that you like.
If you put in an hour a day of legit practice, you will be very decent in one year. |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:04 PM Author: laughsome station weed whacker Fuck it I'm gonna scoop an electric and rockmaster ASAP. Ty oh brother my brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282134) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:07 PM Author: titillating keepsake machete base that looks pretty TTT man. Don't want to go too shitty. Go to a pawn shop and buy a used Fender Squire or a cheap Ibanez and amp. I once saw an RG series Ibanes for $125 at a pawn shop (that is a steal). Xoxo is pretty good about guitar advice, come here with the model of amp and guitar and we will advise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282153) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:40 PM Author: laughsome station weed whacker I just meant a cheap guitar and the guitar software mentioned above. I thought it was rockmaster.
Rocksmith, I meant, and yeah probs a Squier or something |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:40 PM Author: Khaki sweet tailpipe just do Wonderwall bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282020) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:43 PM Author: Doobsian potus To what end? Paganini or Third Eye Blind? Fuck no and fuck yes, respectively. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282039) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2014 12:00 AM Author: Frum cerebral locus international law enforcement agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939869) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 5:59 PM Author: Cyan home roommate I'm a professional guitarist. You will never become good at guitar. You don't have the passion, you don't love music enough to really get inside it and to own it. Your heart will always be in other places. If you haven't been connected to music for a long time, you have no chance at mastery. Anyone can learn to strum a few chords. And if you really wanted to win at it, you could learn some more challenging lead parts. But none of the approaches described in this thread thus far are an accurate method to attaining mastery of music and the instrument. You should quit now before you embaress yourself. Thinking something is cool and imagining yourself as an accomplished artist in any field is a total mistake. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282111) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:00 PM Author: titillating keepsake machete base can you play Eruption in its entirety and without error? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282120) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:07 PM Author: Cyan home roommate A fair number professional guitarists over 40 could do this if they're not folk only or something. It would take me a month of playing it to a metronome to get it up to speed. I could play it note for note but not with the same attitude. Similarly Eddie couldn't play my licks with the same attitude. If you're going purely for overall challenge, Yngwie is a lot harder imo. Also, memorizing another musicians licks does not make you great. You learn nothing by playing that riff alone. Music takes a lot more work than that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282154) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:47 PM Author: Thriller marketing idea stead its a skill, not a calling. get over yourself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282374) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 7:00 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy (person who has neither skills nor a calling) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282446) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 7:03 PM Author: scarlet telephone this is actually lisa rowe irl so you should probably retract: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJw_4ZPzGuM
OOPS OUTTED
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:04 PM Author: Stimulating black woman macaca Didn't I see you last weekend playing at the Ramada by the airport? You were the guy who kept trying to play Joe Satriani songs even though people were requesting covers of Margaritaville and and Freebird? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282133) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:10 PM Author: Cyan home roommate How do you know I'm not the back up guitarist for Maroon 5? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282165) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:35 PM Author: Stimulating black woman macaca I think that might be even worse. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282315) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:05 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy This is generally true. Most people who play guitar don't understand the difference between being able to make your fingers do the mechanical minimum required to "play" a song and actually playing the song. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282141) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:06 PM Author: cracking range national security agency this post is a weird mix of credited and faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282145) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2014 12:32 AM Author: geriatric clear mood death wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24940027) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 11:42 PM Author: fear-inspiring razzmatazz state regret you get mad pussy bro? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22284198) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 6:24 PM Author: scarlet telephone Anyone can get decent in that amount of time. Whether you get good or not depends on how many hours per day you play combined with how good of an ear you have (pitch recognition ear for what sounds right in a song rhythm ability to deconstruct chords in your head etc) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22282247) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 9:48 PM Author: curious peach police squad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22283435) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 9:52 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy that's how I was when I was first learning -- one summer around like age 13 I started playing like three hours a day, just teaching myself out of songbooks. I got pretty good pretty fast although there were a LOT of flaws in my playing that I probably could have used someone to point out. Playing guitar is kind of like driving -- you're always amazing at it when you do it by yourself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22283460) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 9:57 PM Author: curious peach police squad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22283496) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 10:03 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy forgetting about technique, there was also stuff I figured out by ear where I just played something in a way harder way than it needed to be played, like if someone had told me "you know that's in open tuning, right?" I would have stopped coming up with crazy fingerings. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22283569) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 10:13 PM Author: mauve supple travel guidebook Read music or no? if no, possibly, although 1 hour a day is nothing.
If you have to learn music fundamentals, probably not. |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 10:42 PM Author: Sapphire Ladyboy you don't really need to read music or know music fundamentals to learn to play songs on guitar though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#22283862) |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 10:51 PM Author: comical french trailer park Here's a good tutorial video with some important tips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okO9qGt7A4 |
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Date: December 19th, 2012 11:44 PM Author: Arousing Coffee Pot Sanctuary depends on whether you have musical ability some people have none |
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Date: February 1st, 2014 10:36 PM Author: passionate snowy theater stage goal in life Guitar is far more about well-spent time practicing than anything. It's not intuitive, nor is it crazy difficult (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939384) |
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Date: February 1st, 2014 10:42 PM Author: puce prole address Yes, but you won't be that religious in your practicing. Give it time brah. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939421) |
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Date: February 1st, 2014 11:36 PM Author: mentally impaired alcoholic library YES BUT FIND A LEGIT TEACHER (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939724) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2014 12:13 AM Author: insane parlour ratface I learned how to play Green Day in 3 weeks. I know you can do it too! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24939949) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2014 7:57 AM Author: wonderful haunting crotch Yeah, I think so, but only if one possessed above average musical talent to begin with. Otherwise, a year does not seem long enough to me. I have been playing the guitar for only a year and a half now, while I formerly was trained on the bass which included learning some music theory, so I hd a head start on the guitar. And yet I feel, after a year and a half, as though the more I learn the less I know. But I'm just now starting to be able to play the guitar a little bit and it's a very fun instrument that can be played in a variety of ways. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2141895&forum_id=2#24940893) |