5 Things Beginner Guitar Players Actually Need
5 Things Every New Guitar Players Need
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I agree I'm a firm believer in where they are mentally and unless they have the discipline of a monk being able to hear the sound they want is imperative, get their dream guitar or a good playing clone of their dream guitar and a good modeling amp like a katana or vyper ect, and the biggest they can afford small driver amps just have that small gpesker sound when it trys to produce the lows, pedals can be frustrating and very expensive so a modeling amp is the way to go at first anyway, even if they like clean all those effects like chorus flanger whatever. And learn part of a song now n then, doing nothing but scales ect is boring and can lead to loss of interest.
There are quite a few good instructors found on YouTube but Justin Guitar is an excellent place to start, especially if you know nothing about playing.
I bought my first electric about a year ago. I learned quite a lot from Dylan about setting it up correctly. I have a hands on DIY mentality and I love working on and playing my guitar.
Dylan can you talk about the MFD pickups found in the G&L ASAT models? I have one and those pickups are crazy powerful. They were obviously one of Leo’s last designs (I think) and he pushed them on the ASATs pretty hard.
If you need beginner lessons, Korey Hicks on YouTube. I watch his videos to help me be a better guitar teacher. He’s great
About course and community I would happily recommend 52week guitar Player. Its an amazing course with awesome community!❤
**This advice is maybe for a more intermediary player who's just moved on from acoustics (or however they've learned)
& is now interested in electrics & guitar gear**
a fender twin into a marshall cabinet (212 or 412) with some pedals.
put either a passive volume box int he fx loop or an attenuator to knock about 6-12db off.
This is not only a great sounding 'starter' setup, but you'll never actually need to upgrade it, like at all, if you don't want to.
the red-knob Super 60 is a good budget option; its basically a fender 'single' with an extra (useless) od channel.
Leave the treble off, put the mids up over 12:00 & set bass to taste = perfect budget pedal platform.
Practice daily, even if it's just 5 or 10 minutes. With a metronome (or drum loop or whatever, but keep time)100% find a local teacher. Finding the right teacher is key though. If one isn't working for you, try another one, until you find one that clicks with you and your learning style and your goals. No online lesson can beat having someone in the room listening and watching and correcting.
Justin Guitar YouTube channel
Marty Music is another very good teacher.
Paul Davids is great for learning a lot of music theory.
Things that have helped me immensely:
Get a guitar stand. It's more likely that you will pick up the guitar if you force yourself to see the thing.
Have a goal. Even if you think it's impossible.
A $200 guitar and a $200 setup will be better for a beginner than a $400 guitar.
See that tremelo? Use it sparingly. Don't have one? Good.
Play in public before you feel like you are ready.
Cheap amps suck. Spend a little more than the cheapest available. Headphone jack is as important as anything else
Even if it's just 5 minutes, play every day.
Hang out at local music stores and venues. You will meet local musicians. And drummers.
Thanks to those who responded with online lessons. I've been playing a while and maybe some of them can help me get better. I'll check them out.
My 1st amp was a modeling thing (Fender LT25).
Positive: I learned very quick that I liked the Marshall sound more than the Fender sounds. I didn't expected that.
Negative: It has latency (like all modeling stuff). My guitar teacher has a tube amp, so I noticed within a few weeks. And I bought a new analog amp within a few months. Analog amps play much easier!
I’m learning in my late 50’s. I picked up a few of the standard learning books. I think it’s good to be able to read music and the basic books are a good ground zero to learn. Hal Leonard is one of the many authors of such books. Next is if you have a Xbox/play station etc there is a game called RockSmith. You plug your electric guitar into an adapter into your game station. So the display comes at you on the screen, a simplified representation of written music so you can see and prepare for what happens next. The game gives you feedback for notes, timing, etc and scores your progression. Not as good as a human teacher, but it is an added way to keep you practicing during the week. Then the local community college for structured learning. Once you have a basic skill, this thing called friends. I’m lucky that most of my friends hobby are in bands so they like to meet up and casually jam. I used to show up for these for once a week and join in when they were not prepping for upcoming gigs. Also trying out their gear and their experiences were great.
Things to avoid? FOMO hype from YouTube Facebook. Everyone is an expert and have never heard you play and think they know everyone. By all means chat online, but take recommendations with several grains of salt.
Biggest suggestion for equipment? What is your favorite song or musician? Research what they play and why. Then loser if you can piece together something that would resemble that tone. I have found that the late model squires (Fender inexpensive imported copies of us and Mexico fenders have really improved and a $300-500 guitars is not only warranted but good quality now. $159 base models might be ok. But might be more problems down the road in 6 months.
Amplifier: I think the recent inexpensive fender digital modeling amps are decent for at home. Headphones or recording to your computer via usb so you can experiment and playback later is good. Many of the modern modeling amps have a lot to offer. I do have a couple tube amps, and digital amps don’t really compare, but they are one or two trick ponies that need 2-4 pedals at $100-300 for each pedal. So to start? Get a decent digital modeling amp.
Most important thing? Pick up guitar once a day for at least 5 minutes a day, even without amplification and watch tv and play through the. Commercials.
If you set it down or aside because life gets in the way, make time to pick it up again and see if it still calls to you.
We have short time on this workd, so setting aside some time for some fun and learning is worth more than you may think when you are 15-40 years young.
So if you are interested in and music or creation, get something and start experimenting. Then move into learning either with friends or something more structured. In the best world learn by all methods. Have fun
For me very meaningful is to have some practice licks that inspire e.g. I love melody from Autumn Leaves and have two exercises based on this melody, I have played it thousands times just because I love this melody. Also I heard some practice tip to have one guitar with really, really high action and practice sometimes on that guitar, this is good use of that first, cheap guitar. For me it is helping playing cleaner chords when you switch to guitar with lower action.
For me personally, practicing with a metronome was a game changer! For many years I didn’t use one and it was fine and I’d accepted that I’d got as good as I was going to get, but a few years ago I started playing to a metronome and very quickly noticed how sloppy I actually was and then that my skills improved noticeably in a very short time!
Also, trying playing with others as often as possible as that’ll teach you things you will never learn simply playing on your own!
Best thing to do…buy last years or better yet last last years number one stuff..used. Buying brand new…eww. also don't worry about custom stuff…the marketing monster can swallow you up. Boutique stuff is lame as a beginner. Well caveat if you're a blues lawyer then have at it. For mere mortals…used stuff is the best.
One tip for effective practice is to have focus.
It’s fun to play a bunch of songs and try different things, but starting focus on fewer things so you can get that down.
Then move onto other stuff, and keep up with the old stuff too.
If you try too much stuff at once you will either take way longer to learn stuff, or not learn it.
Of course it’s okay to move on from a song that’s too difficult or that you no longer like, but have learned from. But keep track and focus.
Good points made, as always.
I was just wondering, what model guitar is the pink paisley tele on the sofa in the background? If you have a video about it, could you point me in the right direction?
Routines – Spider Crawls – Its the best way to get dexterity and accuracy, it starts slow(you need patience it will be terrible at first) but over time you will need a metronome because you can go practically that fast, speaking of which, Metronome learn timing and learn how to stay in timing. Okay then there are Bar chords practice bar chords and throw regular chords in between them and change between them figuring out placement and getting speed between transitions. Another way of learning songs and learning timing is Rocksmith 2014 – Its a fun way and a gamer way you will probably be familiar with, I recommend it for millennials and younger people, its just what you are familiar with.
Rip apart songs for the techniques used, what you want to do is steal the technique by turning it into a routine, moving from 1 to the next, Like starting with Something that has sliding like Iron Man from Black Sabbath and go into one of EVH's songs with tapping then go into Vick Flics 007 Bond theme for a staccato, once you have speed it becomes a challenge to go slow and allow space so between techniques create bridges between them with space, learn to unclutter the mess. In the next step I want you to Take those techniques and now tap into yourself, your feelings, your situations that defined you, pick techniques to use and create a feeling in the form of a rhythm then define the solo with the techniques and create those transitions between connecting them -congrats you have a song, probably a very bad one because it's your first but Write it down, if not it will come back to haunt you, speaking of which when exploring the fretboard, record what you think is great, Write it down, if you are screwing with tunings and such write it down, its no good if you forget it and its lost to time.
Starter rig –
1- If you are young or a Gamer(more along the lines of enthusiast) – You already have a PC or laptop – Scarlet Mono/2i2/4i4 4thgen – Yamaha HS5s – Cable and software like Reaper with free plugins/BiasFx2/Rocksmith 2014 – Guitar you probably are going to gravitate to a Ibanez HSH or a Strat HSH, or a Schecter with a locking trem and you will gravitate towards Fishman Moderns, because you like hard mode and never start on normal like others……………..
2- Really Old head – Monoprice 15watt 1×12 tube amp with Spring Reverb/Vox Super Micro Beetle/Orange Micro Terror Hybrid amp(Dark possibly) – Telecaster or LP/SG
3- Old but not that old – Fender Mustang GTX 100watt 1×12/ Boss Katana MKII 100Watt 1×12 – a millennial so probably a Stat 2 point or floyd and you won't stop f&*king with it until its fully unlocked and fully modded to all holy hell and back, and sticker bombed to hell or an Ibanez JEM because you lived through the 80's and 90's, or a Slash LP.
Justin Guitar is a pretty good option for online classes for beginners. It has a more organised structure than most YouTube based teachers and the beginner courses are free.