get a teacher, definitely.
once you practice something wrong, its very hard to correct it(i went through this for quite some time)

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last time i play until my hand spazing
spasms

i used to play the saxophone a few years back
pretty fun until i heard eric johnson and steve vai

james of all riffs, master of puppets.

i think the main reason you wanna have a teacher is not only to show you new things etc but to show you what NOT to do

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sometimes i train my fingers by hammering on really hard =/

copy, paste, source.
i fret hard to train some strength only but when i play i dont smash the fretboard
except maybe some heavy riffs like maybe some lamb of god sometimes i'll fret a little harder

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yeah. you gotta be able to control your finger strength to produce different sounds and tonalities.

technical? like? i'm a noob

well sometimes i purposely fret it away from the fret abit(as in about the middle of the fret) to get that erm muddy? tone.
especially when performing speed buildups on the thick strings

yeah with distortion its easier to get the sound but you gotta control the string noise
on and off i'll play my acoustic(not sure about the stock gauges) the string gauges are higher so when i play my electric guitar after that i feel my fingers are stronger

yeah, can do that to achieve that muddy effect i was talking about

wah how you dent it with your pick..
even with a pickguard there i dunno how i will be able to hit the body while strumming..

i'm using a pyramid acoustic(rm120 one)
the upper body paint actually came off due to sweat and i was wondering why is there a black line on my arm...
yup, you get what you pay for.
and that was the 2nd model i had replaced because the first one had serious technical issues like EXTRA ONE FRET?!
so 2 frets sounded the same and there were a sh!tload of other problems