How To Master Playing Guitar  

Practise make perfect but if have no "GIFT" playin guitar is very difficult for U.
U must practise at least 8 hours A day, or more so u became a guitar master like Paul gilbert :D
Piss

Hey there!! Finally, someone talks about playing the guitar. Ready carefully.,,. three and a half years ago I was like you. I was struggling to learn how to play the guitar, But now I'm playing like a pro. Though I don't have a band, but I play on my own. I play guitar freestyle way now. I've been doing front acts in our school whenever there's a program and I always get a roar of applause from my audience. Watch these guys on YouTube.com to know what I'm talking about: Justin King, Trace Bundy, Andy McKee, Don Nelsson, Tommy Emmanuel. Along the way of your learning how to play the guitar, you will hear the terms: tapping, harmonics(both hard and soft harmonics), sweeping, fast picking, and many other terms.. Don't mind those terms yet. lets get to your learning. Read the book that you have. If you have an instructional DVD much better. Those two alone are enough for you to learn fast. Do finger exercises. It will help you move your fingers faster. Always think that you can, Boost your Morale. If they can, you can do it too. Take it one step at a time.

after you've learned strumming try plucking and finger picking. You can use Tabs, that can found on the internet, so you just have to follow it and make it sound right.

These are the easiest chords that I know.. from Madonna's "crazy for you"
A , E , F#m , D. That's all. very easy. One thing you have to learn before playing guitar, if not the first thing you have to learn, is to tune your guitar. Now I don't have time to teach with that one. LOL.

You have three thing to remember:
1. Practice.
2. Practice.
3. Practice.
That's all. 'Hope that helps. Happy posting!!

Hello!

First I want to encourage you just by saying that it is a great thing that you are trying to learn to play the guitar! It is not so easy, but if you practice daily you will steadily improve. You don't have to be a "born musician" in order to one day be a guitar player. Many people by sheer determination, discipline, study, and practice have become very good players. We can't all be Eric Clapton, though, that is a pure gift!
But please understand you are still a very, very beginning player, only 2 months is not that long. You cannot expect yourself to play super well already.

I was wondering what kind of guitar your Kapok Brand is? When I first started to play I was using a Yamaha classical guitar. They nylon strings make it easy on the fingers and a bit easier to play I think. Acoustic and steel string a bit harder for beginners.

I'd say the easiest music to play when you are a beginner is Folk music. Usually a song is just a few,simple chords to play (and then sing along if you like :)
It's too bad your friends who play guitar arent helping you. Have you considered taking some guitar lessons? It helps to have a teacher, at least for a little while.

Also, if you do a Google search (www.google.com) for "Learn To play the guitar" or "guitar lessons" or phrases like that you will probably see many sites that offer online classes that you can watch at home with your computer, or that you can buy dvd's of.

For me, even after years of playing I still struggled with a few chords that gave me trouble.

ALso what may help is finding out if there are any teachers or schools offering group guitar lessons for beginners in your area. That way you may meet some other beginner guitar players and may make new friends you can practice with, etc.

If you love the guitar, then I want to encourage you to continue with your practicing,(daily for an hour minimum if possible- what the other person said about 8 hours a day...yes..if you want to be a professional musician! Otherwise an hour or so a day will still show progress) try to get some good lessons somewhere for awhile (online or off), and dont be too hard on yourself. It will take some time and try to have a long term vision for this. If you keep playing and practicing it will be something that will bring enjoyment to your life for years and years. That's a great thing!

Also, maybe try to focus on the easier chords til you are a bit better, such as A,C,D,E,Em,Am,D7,A7, G, G7...then work foward from there.

I hope my feedback helps! Feel free to ask me anything else about this, if I can help I will :)

Best Wishes to you,
Starlighter

i started playing a guitar since i was in elementary at the age of 12 i guess. at first i am not confident having that skill. then later on i decided to really practice, practice and practice so i can play many songs. until now, too bad to say that its been a long since i learned how to play the instrument but it seems i can say that i am not yet a master of guitar. Please give me a advise... need to cheer up my attitude..

Dude there's only one thing you have to remember..PRACTICE. If you wanna like the band you love you have to take one step at a time. Skill don't just come there are well crafted and by time you'll notice the difference. Learn to paly the chords first. The placing of the chord. Learn how to strum and pick. Learn how to move betweeen chord and so on.These are a few basic thing to practice within these few month. Once you know how to mive around the fretboard then you learn the scale. From there you learn the solo and how create a solo. Learn harder makes you rocks harder.peace man.

hi there ok let me introduce myself my name Azari and here are some tips for you to be a good guitar player u need to be patient just ignore ur friends which is such a selfish and from right now just pay more attention to your guitar and that is your challenging you don't have to be a yamaha student with a grade cert to be a guitar player even though you learn in a hard way you still can be a good player or even better than yamaha student first of all do a fingering excercise tight your 4 finger tip with a rubber band not too hard not too loose and do your fingering excercise for 5 minit from fret 1 string 6 finger 1,fret 2 string 6 finger 2 all the way form string 5 4 3 2 1 and reverse again from string 1 to string 6 after the 5 minit exercise release the rubber band from your finger and do the exercise again with-out rubber band you will feel the light of your finger like a pro guitar player with a fast scaling finger remember before playing guitar do a warm-up exercise try it you won't be regret.my email azari1975@yahoo.com.sg