Music is Win well, they just cut my balls off but I’m slowly fulfilling my dream of becoming a choir singer-guitarist hybrid!

I’m the rekindled spirit! Stopped playing 4 years ago, but I started again because of the crisis. I’m so stoked to play again

I can play great blues jams in one position of the pentatonic scale, so I'm pretty much Johnny Hendricks now

Still teaching!

just getting started on my youtuber phase...notice me senpai!

No. He isn't a good player. Ok at best. Not that it matters. EDIT: I should not have even left a comment. Congrats to him

Everyone is better without an audience.

OK, and? I do the same and it just provokes me to do better man. Figure out where you are having issues and why. I had to video record my hands so i could figure out what I was doing wrong. Just don't stop...

Keep practising, practice makes perfection! Don't give up, trust me guitar is worth it

I know your profile picture

Bro ong you lose 30% of your playing powers when people watch or you record yourself😂

Thatoneguy Who Can confirm the “watchful eye” debuff also applies to when friends come over and you try to play an FPS or something

@@thatoneguywho3434 forreal. Why is that?

that is literally me I couldn't have put it better myself

@@thatoneguywho3434 never fails

Literally me. You got this tho

Me too man me too 😂

Yuppers

exactly me

This is to relatable XD

Aren't we all? 😅

im in the i want to learn to play guitar to play anime OP but its intermediating

​@@kevsimoes most are actually decently easy. You can often play most by ear

@@shira254 yea .I have been playing from ear since a week now

Real

Same

same lmfao

same lol

Same

Brooooooooooo i was looking for a comment just like this!!! Same phase man

All it needed was some background music

The ultimate band nerd flex

true it's just missing the 4 other guitarists playing the tuning song

@Caleb CAROTA yeah lol

@@yontis1329 and that one kid playing Smoke On The Water in the corner

that's not a phase thats always

@@shira254 “it’s not a phase mom” 🙄

​@@jeeptoe What is Jeep toe?

dam i felt that, like lookin in a mirror.

i get you. try learning a really hard song that you don't think you can do. just taking that step takes you out of the idk what to play phase because it sorta opens your eyes a little, trust me.

I just started playing about a week ago. I'm using Justinguitar's lessons to learn. Very well structured.

@@Greg-tj8rg Marty music is a great KZfaq channel for learning guitar also

@@shira254 I’m doing this right now actually. One on acoustic, one on electric. In Dreams by Sierra Ferrell and Antpile by Kublai Khan respectively. It’s been equal parts fun and frustrating. When I go to long without playing (whenever my fingers stop hurting) I itch to get back to it.

Shit, now THAT is relatable!

Ha! Yup

Sounds punk!

AKA "The guy who knows all the riffs/intros but never plays a full song".

I always love reading comments like these, it helps that I'm not the only one doing exactly this xD

Thrash Metal on an acoustic sounds like middle-eastern music.

pull a tenacious d

@@malignanttrog yea

I was similar once.... about a week ago before I bought a epiphone les Paul.

I feel you

thats so sweet

this was surprisingly nice

Good luck with your journey man!

same, when i was younger i was pretty clean w it, then when i started high school i didn't pick up my guitar for a year and i forgot everything.

I was an on and off player for years but recently I have been playing consistently for over 6 months with one exception. I practiced daily until I hit the failure stage about two months ago. I had no desire to play and I was sick of the same songs and the same chords and the guitar in general. The old songs sucked and new songs I wanted to learn either had chord shapes that were too tough and I couldn't transistion chords well enough to get through it. I quit for about a week and knew I was burnt out and not making progress. Ater all the time I invested I wasn't gonna quit so I picked up the guitar and then over the next few days I was more comfortable with the guitar than at any point previously. It all clicked and the feeling of picking up the guitar was a mix of forgetting the old bad habits and realization that I can play any song if I slow it down enough and stay patient. The pressure was gone and I was having fun learning. I was playing chords and not buzzing any strings and learning new chord shapes in minutes and transitioning them decently enough while keeping rythm well. I'm very comfortable with my current skill levels and can finally finish songs begining to end. Keep up the practice and good luck!

Something similar happened to me except I never stopped playing but at 15 I thought "Yeah I'm good enough I wrote all the riffs and solos for the garage high-school band and can play fast solos and stuff" little did I know there was SO MUCH ROOM to improve. Now at 19 I can blow my 15 year-old self out of the water any time any day when it comes to guitar playing. There is always something to learn.

Good attitude. I've walked away from it for years, sold my gear, got serious about golf. Love of music is what draws me back. I look back and can't really pinpoint when the improvement happened. There's a big difference between okay, semi-proficient and eiw, that was tasty and it just kinda flowed without much effort. I never set out to specifically learn vibrato for example. It just seems like it just happened. "When did come about?" Is what you ask yourself.

True

Well he did say Guitar center is you home He just took that phase to literal

Yes

Its just for fun my friend 😊😊

@@cmdrw0lf708 exactly brother

Chicken Tendies “the little guitar shop down the street” is your home now

🤣

How is this so accurate 😭

I’ve got a guitar I was given for free and a cheap amp (and absolutely no guitar skills at all 🔥)

Same but problem is I only have a classic guitar

@@genkiwhatifs3285 thats me indeed. I can play dozens of rock songs. But I have a classic guitar.

That's an awesome stage! How I'd love to be a teenager again lol 😅 no but seriously: get ONE good guitar and amplifier on the used market. If you've got tall hands i recommend a fender scale length guitar, just because you get used to the larger scale right from the beginning, or a shorter scale if you have mid sized or small hands, which isn't a problem at all, it sounds the same after all, it's just easier to improve on shorter scales then. I've been at the almost no gear stage, we've all been there (unless dad's a guitar collector lol). I'm 42 now and i've owned many guitars over the years. I can recommend any with a two point tremolo or jazzmaster type vibrato (just because tremolos/vibratos/whammy bars are awesome and fun to play with). If you find the time go to a local dealer from time to time to try out which guitar plays easily. Try the ones you can't afford NOW, you might find them used in good shape out there. At the guitar store you might often find people who will help you, or people selling used guitars too. Just don't let them sell you the first guitar you touch. But if it's a good store they won't pressure you to buy anything. Btw you don't necessarily need an amplifier, you can get a good(!) audio interface (like Motu M4) for much less then a good(!) amplifier. Add cheap Mackie monitor speakers and you can play through your PC/laptop and have hundreds of sound- and recording possibilities. (I'd still prefer a real amplifier - it doesn't need to be loud or tall - instead of the audio interface in the beginning, but that's just my old thinking.) Good luck n have fun! 😉

PS: or maybe forget about the tremolo first, you need some patience with tuning those. (And easy to tune tremolos aren't very musical in my opinion, but that's a boomer opinion too lol)

I can't play well sitting down. Is that weird?

Yeah i spent probably a solid month playing only standing up to get out of that.

Our drummer has the same problem

I don’t have a strap for mine yet so it’s basically physically impossible for me to play while standing lmao

sam frieden 2nd this, I spent a week or two playing only standing before it clicked.

Lol

Go pick it up. It's never too late. I started playing when I was 14. Met my future wife at the age of 23. Over the next few years the band i had faded away. Weird thing is no one ever quit the band. The practices went from everyday as a teenager, to once a week in my early 20s, once a month, then eventually it was just an after-thought. One marriage, two kids, 15 years and a divorce later I started slowly replacing the equipment I had sold off. Now, I'm playing again. Unlike everything else in life, the guitar is always there when you need it.

Yess 🤣

Y to same

@@craigpaulson3503 dude you should write a book, you sound inspirational

Hilarious, I mostly practiced rhythm guitar stuff and did lessons from Justin Guitar and Metal Method. After a year I started feeling bored of my routine so I decided I've going to spend the next few months mostly learning a handful of new songs from start to finish. Crazy Train on Rocksmith was the one that kept me from putting the guitar away. Playing that song makes make actually feel like I'm at intermediate level now. I think I'll do Enter Sandman next, I can sight read it on Rocksmith and it is FUN, but I don't have it memorized yet.

@Bobbyjustbobby stick with it bro ur gonna be a beast

4 weeks in how's it going :)

Same bro I started early in high school and dove in head first, by the time I graduated I was a fucking wizard man. I don't say that to sound like a douchebag I really did nothing but play for hours and hours would skip school and could lay on my bed with my guitar and spend literally all day not moving. At some point I just got bored with it I felt like I had taken it as far as I could went from acoustic to electric back to acoustic got into the open tunings the tapping slapping all types of weird shit playing slide and suddenly one day there was just nothing left to learn I felt like. It's been years now I always think about getting back into it

I've completed Cliffs of Dovers and canon in D rock. I wish i had the courage and confidence to record it back then when i was shy. Now I do have some muscle memory but damn im so rusty.

Am in 10th grade and have been learning since 6th grade, self taught and just know one song on finger style T-T

same

3. drugs

@@commentfreely5443 that was my 1st step

Comment Freely How do I get there??

The "I feel like a Drop D riff master and should get on a band" phase. Hahah

👍👍👍me too hahahaha

True

That’s me lol

Yep! I e learned I can play the song and just forget the solo verse and stick the riff back in and it sounds just fine! Lol. If I practice a solo literally a hundred times I can half ass play it, but I know it’s not right, and that’s what motivates me to try harder

Hem... I'm the one who can play solo but don't even know the name of 5 cords...

Funny thing Is I have a cheap electric guitar I'm selling with an amp lol (I still use the cable obv). Just bought a new guitar and don't use the amp because I play on my pc.

Ha man no worries. I have electric and acustics....but if I'm finding something hard I'll go back to this shity nylon 80quid guitar. And practice on that..that was the only way I could play the police every breath you take.....go forth and play all different guitars. Experience will come with different shapes I found anyway

I suggest grind on the acoustic before u get an electric, acoustic guitars just makes you're chords and notes very precise plus u get the power in your fingers aswell and then shift to electric so it'll be SOOO easy as it was for me and manyyyy other's. Just saying you do what you're comfortable in tho

This is me rn 😂

If you get an electric guitar, get Rocksmith! Guitar Hero with a real guitar.

Continues to put one at the end of the video

Keep it up! It’s hard in the beginning, but well worth it! I got my first guitar when I turned 19, and played it daily until my fingers ached. It was slow at first, and I wished so hard ilI could play like my idols right then. But slowly over the course of the next few months I got better. I started getting songs down and finally felt like I was making real progress. 8 years later, and playing is still my favorite thing to do. It’s a great way to let out stress and your feelings, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. That only comes with preserving through that initial rough stage. I hope you keep at it, and enjoy it!

@@IkeRetsam Im thinking of getting a starter pack from fender just so I can learn. Should I?

@@sebastianfr2896 yes, then if u pursuie it get New stuff after that

Yeah me too

Same, I really need to practice scales but always just end up playing a song I learned

thats why doing classical guitar and music theory is the really good way to learn. you get technique and stuff along with learning what music and what happens. then you can go off and learn pretty much any song you want, and just chill. which is what i did/ am doing. classical guitar is also really good tho just saying

Same💀

@@juanRodriguez-cf5pm When I picked up the guitar like a few days ago now, I had no idea what I was doing, and I have the bare minimum of music theory in my head-so I bet it will take month for me to get music theory correctly.

Start with learning the six basic open chords, G A B C D E, then the F and B power chords near the open strings. Then start with the minor pentatonic scale after you have those down. That’ll give you enough to play around and improvise a bit. Then move on to full barre chords and understanding the CAGED system. That’s what I’d recommend. After you have good understanding of those, you’ll be able to improvise fairly well up and down the neck. Major scale is also important. Most importantly just have fun with it.

Lol same I know all the simple open chords but nothing else and can play a couple songs and make a nice sounds with chords

Im he use to be at this phase level. learn more techniques, and youll have so much more fun

Same here dude I can play the main riff from enter sandman but I cant play other chords Basically all chords on the E strings bar chords to be exact but I cant play any other chords

@@MaxilentProductions you just said everything I was looking for in 1 paragraph.

Yep I’m right there with you but it’s a broken shitty little acoustic for kids that’s not pink.... been about 15 years since I’ve played...

@@OneShotOkie Get back at it and buy a el guitar

Same here ,only i swapped the guitar for more books

OMG

One year ago when I startet again I was same lol

Bro same

keep pushing, it's worth it

Same dude lmao

same

I feel this.

Phases 1-4 anyway, lol

He’s definitely on to something.

Pink Floyd The Best quarantine creativity + racks of guitars = home is my Guitar Center. Bravo Tyler.

I'm the fingerstyle snob phase... after playing fingerstyle acoustic for some time I have partly found my way back to the electric guitar to learn blues and classic rock but am too proud to play with a pick even if that's beneficial in some cases... I don't know why but it just feels inferior to me. Like putting on support wheels on your bike. :P

Dude i can’t play with pick at all, i know that pick is sometimes better, but i still use my hands cause pick is just so awkward

@@emperorpalpatine666 yeah i know its just awkward on my grip, and i often hit the strings weird

I was at that phase a couple weeks ago, I chose to grow out my fingernails xD

my dad told me not to use my nail because it makes you're guitar playing sound bad, and he did it because he didn't have a pick

Thank you, you've enlightened me.

that's what she said

Me and you both man😂

Ahh the Nothing Else Matters phase

I can play 500 songs but not to perfection😂😂😂😂 so we’re kinda the same

The simply guitar phase lmfao

I can play 1 song somewhat good

Deadass, I'm just barely climbing out of this stage

that is.... horribly relatable

yes

That's exactly how I feel, what is the next stage after this???? Intermediate?

@@GHMetallica37 According to JustinGuitar, I'm Post-Beginner-Pre-Intermediate. :p I've completed all the Beginner material but everything in the Intermediate section is distinctly above my level. That might be a function of the fact that he skips from grade 2 to grade 4 at the moment so I'm probably a JustinGuitar Grade 3 somewhere.

I’m 32 and just bought a new guitar. Starting from scratch learning music theory

I'm here too bro

Relatable

Same

Me too, but not for long!!

i’m in the playing only electric because i don’t have an acoustic phase😂

Lmaoooo

30 seconds is a stretch. I mean I have to store it and clean it and find a buyer. Idk man. Best I can do is 7?

bashpr0mpt lol same

Literally

*cries*

Fun fact about picking up the guitar again : trying to play what you could before tends to peel the skin off your fingers ! good luck cleaning the guitar after that 🤣

Noob i went past that stage two weeks ago

@Ashley Alian same

i’m at the i’ve been interested for years but i’m finally about to get one & start teaching myself about guitar phase

Stop talking about me

@@martin1069 hahahaha

I started playing this year. I’m 11 it’s really fun Idk if I want to become a master but rn I’m aiming for intermediate to maybe start a band in highschool for fun. I already play piano. I try not to give up even when it’s difficult. Anyway I hope you can pick it back up well and have fun with it. Just chill and don’t stress yourself with it. Bye 🤟🏾

You go boy. Chase your dreams lil man there’s just one life, don’t let them stop you. And if music can’t finally solve your life, it will never be too late to end up with a common job, with a common life, but at least you will have no regrets if you try your best. Peace

@@kevinfuso9923 lil man? Wow

@@2miligrams xd

I usually tell them that i already made much money that you did at my age Im 15 and i had a band, its just amazing when i tell people that i used to earn some money doing the thing that i love, just dont give up The theory says that if you believe in yourself, you are going to win. (People used to pay us bcs we were a cover band and we were good at it, we didnt earn that much but enogh to buy me a good guitar on christmas with my own money :) )

Same here. I can play alot of intros but few full songs.

Same here bro, tons of intros and licks, zero full cover

wait.. there are other kinds of guitarist???

rip to us

Same, good fun tho

Check the Toxicity - SoaD covers on piano! Vkgoeswild was phenomenal

Js22 dinky Orange crush rt20

go to a pawn shop and trade it

Hell yea

Im in "im selflearning the ukulele (because i dont have enough money for an actual guitar) and playing punk rock songs and riffs on the uke"

Good luck bro, I went through it during 2 years

We were all there

hahahahahahaha i felt this

Idk if I was way better, but I took a handful of years off and when I came back it felt fresh and fun again. I learned my pentatonic scales up the neck, got a modeling amp and a few songbooks. It's not an every day thing, but my guitars are on a hanger and a rack ready to go instead of being out of sight.

I think that's the same with almost everything because that happened to me with skating. I wasn't really making any progress then I stopped for half a year then when I got back into it I started learning way faster.

Has a happened a few times, most notably when I was developing my sweep picking. Practice so much I started feeling worse. Put the guitar down for a few weeks, pick it back up and instant improvement. Crazy.

I quit playing for a couple years then when I came back I could instantly play some things that I couldn't wrap my head around before. kinda crazy.

Your brain will literally refuse to remember any more after it’s learned too much in one thing too quickly, it gets no reward so it literally isn’t capable of learning it

That’s a very specific phase JAJAJAJA

can relate.

me too man

Try different tunings and your problem is gone.... for some weeks at least. Im in that phase too

@@JanXD what if I'm in that same phase and cannot up or down tune to save my life

same

Bro same, I just turned 30. Only problem is I have way too much money now...I can’t stop buying pedals

@@slipknot73745 interesting flex

LMAO

Thats me.Was 3 years off getting my final diploma,now starting from scratch at 19 again

Because it can apply to anyone using an instrument.

Same here mate

Glad I’m not alone lol

Technically a bass is a guitar Technically

@@yahiaabokerisha bass is better

Yo I feel called out- 💀

At least we’ll have a new skill!

Keep at it homie!

I got a friend who plays guitar he said he'd teach me guitar. That was two weeks ago though. He's always really busy so I don't ever get any lessons. Yea I started playing during quarantine this year too, though the only way I can learn is from youtube rn.

It takes time patients and practice you’ll get there

It's like $13 for a new set of strings my guy, that's like 1 meal at McDonald's lol

I'm in the "too broke to buy a guitar" phase. Even though I've found several sets on amazon that have the guitar, amp, strings, strap, and pick for around $100 (which I know is dirt cheap), I have no job as a result of being 13 and henceforth cannot purchase a guitar. I'm sure if I softened my dad a bit, I could probably get one, though.

@@jaysonthibert3159 he probably spends his money on useless stuff like cigars , weed ex...

@@jaysonthibert3159 my dude, ernire balls are like $5 lol

aren't we all?

this gives me chills to think back to

I'm a beginner aswell watching this to see the other phases ahead of me.

Same

Im the one who wants to learn to play, learn theory, everything and play megadeth and dragonforce riffs and create my own songs/riffs but is extremely lazy to pick up the guitar itself

@@lunahetfield the guitar is literally right next to my bed. I still say I am too tired to play it.

man bat same

I hate it when I look at some sheet music, think “yeah, I could probably play that”, then start learning only to find out there’s this one technique or chord I can’t quite play like 8 measures in, so I then need to find something else to play.

Jesus Christ died for your sinssssss please repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand

I saw your comment as he said that part

people underrate the difficulty of some nirvana, aero zepplin, love buzz, swap meet and countless other early nirvana tracks can be real killers

@@eliamor1782 ya, love buzz is a beast

Its because tyler and mike trapp are the same person

@@ianleonard3264 lmao I would never think to make that connection but I see it

yep i'm with you on that

you should teach yourself scales!! they're sooo fun. super easy too

they easier than u think

Coco how should u start

k well I’m just self taught, I just taught myself from reading books lol

Scales are great.

Same but I spent 35 years crying in my room...

@@greyisthicc2882 i love you💛 read bout Spirituality law of attraction maybe then u wont cry ☯️🌺🦄

@@nyzer1620 is it good

@Johnny Pippet some what? drugs? 😂😂 i only smoke weed bro 💜

36 actually, I should know since that’s my birth year 😊

JackBluebee hahaha, this comment is awesome!

Bruh- XD

Oh shat

How does jared dines dress haha

I just got past that failure stage. Picked it back up again and now I'm on it more than ever. All because of "buried alive" by A7X

davie504 wants to know your location

Da 🅱️ass

Might be a ukulele

EPICC

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yes.

this phase never actually stops

SAME

It's been 4 weeks since your comment. I'd wager even if you didn't change your routine at all your probably _a lot_ better than you thought you'd be in a month. Never underestimate a daily schedule, even if it's 15 minutes.

27-year-old beginner here. Took me a whole month and then some to nail the C chord without muting other strings or buzzing. That's one more chord in my arsenal now. I bet you're improving every single time you play too. Don't give up!

thats a short time pracfticing, my routine is 4 to 5 hours a day and i get hooked and play more than that oh sorry youre 25 and im 15

@@samalamaduma2557 rock on lil dude. Yea I def changed my routine since I started like a month ago. Im practicing more than 15 min a day now as it gets more addicting when you recognize progress I been getting hooked to

I’m 50 and I’m at the “When I’m at guitar center, all the other guitar players stop and come see what I’m doing stage” however…I was once where you were and if you have a passion for playing guitar and you stick with it and you practice (you gotta up those numbers man) every day. You will be a musical super Saiyan. You just haven’t assumed your final form yet. Hang in there and realize that every decent guitar player struggled at some point but we all kept going! Hell, I still struggle after 35 years but that’s the fun is breaking through. Best of luck and set small goals!! You can do it cause I did and I definitely couldn’t have been a mechanic by 25 ✌🏼