like the topic said,

i would like to know how to improve guitar playing, yeah exercise would do good but what kind of exercise? how long should the routine be?

shares your opinion it here and if u could, maybe u can shares your own way on improving with guitar =)




like me, im using a rubber band and wrap it around my finger while playing, yeah it do increase my finger strength tremendously in short time but i rather find it were quite painful and not tat comfortable to play at the start.



yeah.. my finger condition were not tat good, just started playing guitar and hee.. what to do





This post has been edited by mushimushi88: Oct 17 2008, 05:21 PM

watch youtube videos, play cover songs, get tabs/chords for those songs..... learn as many chords as you can (you can never learn 'too many' chords)

This site: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guitar/Print_Version has quite a lot of useful information.

rubber bands.... wont that restrict blood flow

it did block the blood flow.. sometimes i play until my finger goes numb!

but my friend suggest this method and presumably he say it works. so i try it since i got nuthing to lose
the result were slowly shown but its PAINFUL and hard! try it =)

any other suggestion that we beginners can try? thanks for the wiki kinetix =)

This post has been edited by mushimushi88: Oct 17 2008, 05:22 PM

lolz u sure that helps?

i think practice helps. it improves your muscle memory and articulation. i guess thats pretty important in any instrument.

Try putting tissues between the rubber band and ur fingers..
You need to practice lots of scaled to be good.

haha yeah true oso. if u know what u're doing its fine. each person has their own technique.

just make sure u know how to see your fingers. later have to cut it off. once u feel numbness, its already a sign that there's not enough oxygen flowing to the tissue n muscles.

wuahh.. thank you sir, gonna stop doink it from now on =)

scales.. oh yea! i use metronome while doink finger exercise =) keeping with the tempo xD

huuu.. my precious FINGERS! gonna slap my fren abit after thiss

oh u are toturing that 5 little fingers on your hand!!!! O.O

4 fingers to be exact, stored my rubber bands away atm =)

oh yea.. 4..XD...

haha thats good to know

How to play ALL downstroke fast ?

WTF?! This is first time I heard someone practising finger strength using rubber bands!

The secret here is not to train your fingers to fret hard on the strings, but to accustom your fingers to the motion of fretting... Doing scale routines will do just fine, like chromatic runs...

Rubber bands?I used to stretch my fingers using a rubber band,but I've never tried playing with rubber bands on.

Anyways,I think to get better on guitar,learn theory.I wasted a lot of time focusing only on techniques and songs but never actually learned theory.

theory? mind to show some? like.. notes?

xD

And then when you get that frequently reported "practice-block", try playing with or in front of other people. Second opinions and critiques does help.

Do not just practise scales and learn theories... Make it a habit to always do improvisation exercises with a chord progression or a backing track. This expands your knowledge on melody and helps develope your own set of sounds...

You need to get to a stage where someone plays a chord progression, any progression and you can improv over it with melodies and phrasings that at least have some musicality in it... and only by then, you will actually start progressing as a musician..

This post has been edited by nkphnx: Oct 17 2008, 09:57 PM

practice-block? i try search meaning behind it.. making guitar as a part of own self?


wow.. deep meaning.. improvise!!

Learn the fretboard notes first.