Guitar Progress - 6 Months

I've been playing a little over 6 months now. I've included demonstrations of a few techniques: chords, strumming, power chords, barre chords, palm muting, lead and scales and a finger exercise.

Again, there's nothing very impressive about my current skill level. I know this. The point of these videos is certainly not for me to show off. I'm merely trying to honestly document my progress as a guitar player.

Constructive criticism welcome! Thanks for watching.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• beginner
• guitar
• progress
• chords
• strumming
• power
• barre
• palm
• muting
• lead
• and
• scales
• finger
• exercise

[dimitry16]

hey that guitar is pretty nice and you play really good for 6 months! what kind of guitar is that? I mean brand and model!

[GuitarGuyFromNC]

@dimitry16 Thanks! It's an ESP Horizon.

[87btran]

So you played the Bass previous to the guitar?

[GuitarGuyFromNC]

@87btran No, I only started playing the bass shortly before this video and primarily because of the song. The bass line is extremely simplistic, it's only the root note of the power chords I'm playing.

[Jim47ww]

Did you play the guitar yourself on We Will Overcome? Impressive when compared to your playing on Take it Easy! Did it require many takes?

Were the drums a backing track provided by Addictive Drums or did you create it yourself?

Interesting viewing and a decent tune at the end too.

[GuitarGuyFromNC]

@Jim47ww I did play all three guitar parts (rhythm, lead, and bass). The song is pretty simple. It's mostly power chords with very simple lead patterns. If you ask me, the drums really make the song. They come from the "Heavy Metal" pre-made song that the base AD package comes with. I had to do a little tweaking to get it to work with this song though.

[EvilLamas]

@bozo5116 he's been playing for 6 months.

And `feeling` is just as much a skill as any other part of playing, it's not some secret thing that a select few posess.

And maybe he likes guitars?! There's nothing wrong with possessing em, no matter how good/ bad you are!

[wintherkill]

i think that you started playing guitar at a older age than most......its realy cool that you do a so good job

[sehnsucht77]

a few things: your notes are going sharp when you play and fret, ease up on the fretting hand and focus on even power and tone. second, practice chord switching. third, ease up on the picking hand attack.

[vQlse]

Awesome job dude.. have been playing since august, and can more or less compare to you 3month video.. hopefully I will play the at least as good as this in 3 months time ;)

[lordxheroth]

Awesome, man I NEED and electric guitar. I've been playin round about 8 months and I'm not as fast. But I was playin an acoustic and I find them MUCH harder, Im looking at how much pressure you put on those strings and it looks effortless (acoustic nylon strings are a bitch to fret) and besides there so much you can do with an acoustic... Well done!!!

[bozo5116]

you have more than 1 guitar? i see you got a couple why? learn first ,,, collect later you sound like a robot no feeling ,

[WWFinurhouse]

With a guitar like that you need a lot of gain..

[RyanB747]

@RyanB747 longer to give it a bit more of a "full" sound, and try to just move your wrist when your not playing chords, this will really help you, when you play solos, and similar things, as you'll be used to strumming in a more efficient way, and not have to suddenly change your old habits (which can be a huge pain).

Anyways, all the best, and keep it up, say 2-3 more years at the pace your going, and you'll be able to play highly advanced melodies and solos :D Keep it up fellow rocker.

-Ryan

[RyanB747]

hey :)

Id like to say that, considering you've only been playing 6 months (at that time anyway) that your brilliant :D

some advice (even though this is coming from a 14 yr old :S) would be, when your playing open chords, and your not using say the e or a strings, then try to cover them lightly with your thumb to mute them, and also, I noticed when you wer playing the sweet child o' mine intro, it would really sound a lot better, if you kept your fingers on the strings for jus a little bit pt1*