Example..

 

http://youtu.be/Oo_D0rozqwI

---

I know all the techniques you mentioned too, just did it the hard way. Not via some gimmicky method. 

 

I've never played Rocksmith but I know people who have. They said yeah it was a neat little program, but they also said that nothing beats the old way and actually going to school for proper music theory; that this is nothing but microwave guitar lessons. 

 

As an ascending player myself, I'll check it out, but I am almost positive I'll find that what my musician friends say about it will ring true.

So which school did yo go to?

---

Wow, that pretty cool. I Think he will be able to enjoy and benefit from this greatly. He watches a lot of videos on YouTube now. So, I'm sure he'll like this and will be better help than trying to figure out on his own. He took a class or two at school but was unable to get another guitar class this semester.

---

Wow, that pretty cool. I Think he will be able to enjoy and benefit from this greatly. He watches a lot of videos on YouTube now. So, I'm sure he'll like this and will be better help than trying to figure out on his own. He took a class or two at school but was unable to get another guitar class this semester.

That's what I take from it too.. Good stuff..

---

BTW, that 97% up there for Cemetary Gates, literally rocks.. I'm only at 35% haha

 

The game also lets you stop, slow down and repeat all measures and bars so if you need to work on a specific chord or picking, you can..

---

Wow, that pretty cool. I Think he will be able to enjoy and benefit from this greatly. He watches a lot of videos on YouTube now. So, I'm sure he'll like this and will be better help than trying to figure out on his own. He took a class or two at school but was unable to get another guitar class this semester.

FWIW I used to teach guitar lessons, and I would recommend looking into it also. The absolute biggest hurtle to cross when teaching someone to play guitar is to keep them engaged, especially when a particular technique doesn't come quickly or easily to him/her.


I can't tell you how many students I had quit because their fingers were still really sore after two weeks, or they had a hard time learning to hold a pick properly, or couldn't quite get down that F chord etc.


I think at the very least this game would help your son stay engaged in learning.


Oh, and as far as learning via YouTube, I think the Justinguitar channel gives pretty solid free lessons on there. Hope he sticks with it!

---

BTW, that 97% up there for Cemetary Gates, literally rocks.. I'm only at 35% haha

 

The game also lets you stop, slow down and repeat all measures and bars so if you need to work on a specific chord or picking, you can..

I'd pay $80 just for the jam session feature, it looks pretty cool to me.

---

FWIW I used to teach guitar lessons, and I would recommend looking into it also. The absolute biggest hurtle to cross when teaching someone to play guitar is to keep them engaged, especially when a particular technique doesn't come quickly or easily to him/her.

I can't tell you how many students I had quit because their fingers were still really sore after two weeks, or they had a hard time learning to hold a pick properly, or couldn't quite get down that F chord etc.


I think at the very least this game would help your son stay engaged in learning.


Oh, and as far as learning via YouTube, I think the Justinguitar channel gives pretty solid free lessons on there. Hope he sticks with it!

Pain is gain.. Honestly, I wouldn't have recommended this to your students, but one of the best ways to build up calluses on the guitar fingers is to swab them about 3 times a day with rubbing alcohol.. That's an Eric Clapton trick. Also play, play and more play.. Calluses are good in this case haha

---

Pain is gain.. Honestly, I wouldn't have recommended this to your students, but one of the best ways to build up calluses on the guitar fingers is to swab them about 3 times a day with rubbing alcohol.. That's an Eric Clapton trick. Also play, play and more play.. Calluses are good in this case haha

I was a play and more play kinda teacher haha. You just gotta work through it. That was easily hands down the number one reason people would quit though.

---

I was a play and more play kinda teacher haha. You just gotta work through it. That was easily hands down the number one reason people would quit though.

Definitely understandable.. I almost gave up on it too when I first started, really glad I didnt.. I've left my line of blood down a fret board before too haha

 

I started by playing on 9's, then heard a tip to switch to thicker steels to toughen the calluses. I think I switched to either 11's or 12's.. damn sure did haha.. hurt like hell for the first few weeks, but paid off..

---

Definitely understandable.. I almost gave up on it too when I first started, really glad I didnt.. I've left my line of blood down a fret board before too haha

 

I started by playing on 9's, then heard a tip to switch to thicker steels to toughen the calluses. I think I switched to either 11's or 12's.. damn sure did haha.. hurt like hell for the first few weeks, but paid off..

I never had too much of a problem with the calluses but it took me a month to learn how to pick with a flat pick. I'm still not the most fleet picker ha.


What do you play with now? I still use 9's because I like big bends. I think 10's sound much nicer though.

---

I never had too much of a problem with the calluses but it took me a month to learn how to pick with a flat pick. I'm still not the most fleet picker ha.


What do you play with now? I still use 9's because I like big bends. I think 10's sound much nicer though.

I usually tend to bounce back and forth from Elixer 9's and 10's.. Yeah 9's will definitely give you better bend but I like 10's for finger tapping.

 

What kind of guitar do you play?

---

Found another fun one to play.. 

 

Foo Fighter's Everlong.. 60.6% mastery level 

---

I usually tend to bounce back and forth from Elixer 9's and 10's.. Yeah 9's will definitely give you better bend but I like 10's for finger tapping.

 

What kind of guitar do you play?

 

I can barely remember to be honest. I have a G&L - I think it's a Rampage, a Schecter Semi-Hollow (no idea on the model) and a Franken-Guitar that I made out of spare parts and refinished.

 

I also have a Music Man 5-string bass that's pretty fun to play on if you have a drummer to play with.

 

The Schecter is by far my favorite to play though. I replaced the pickups with some Seymour Duncans and that along with the hollow body gives it some really nice tone.

---

I can barely remember to be honest. I have a G&L - I think it's a Rampage, a Schecter Semi-Hollow (no idea on the model) and a Franken-Guitar that I made out of spare parts and refinished.


I also have a Music Man 5-string bass that's pretty fun to play on if you have a drummer to play with.


The Schecter is by far my favorite to play though. I replaced the pickups with some Seymour Duncans and that along with the hollow body gives it some really nice tone.

Nice. I like Duncan more than Humbucker. I have a Gibson Epiphone and a BC Rich Warlock's Revenge with the widow headstock. The Warlock has Duncans in it.

---

This thread just be pinned for TMD poster boy behavior. First, someone's opinion of what is fun is somehow wrong, then he declares a game to be a Cliff's Notes version without having even seen it.

 

Anyway, that game looks like a great way to learn, and really puts the same techniques of learning to use that I used 40 years ago, only in a more accessible and graphical format. I wasn't very good at reading music, so it was a lot of stopping and starting songs, repetition, repetition, repetition. 

 

I haven't played in a long time, but love studying guitarists. I have a 1960 Fender Jazzmaster that hasn't been out of the case in years.

---

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley


 

I never had too much of a problem with the calluses but it took me a month to learn how to pick with a flat pick. I'm still not the most fleet picker ha.


What do you play with now? I still use 9's because I like big bends. I think 10's sound much nicer though.

 

I used to use d'addario 9's....now have exclusively used some bronze 10's that my music store recommended. I like the10's sound a lot better. 

 

I usually tend to bounce back and forth from Elixer 9's and 10's.. Yeah 9's will definitely give you better bend but I like 10's for finger tapping.

 

What kind of guitar do you play?

 

Kramer ZX 10 active pickups / airbrushed/ painted as a George Lynch clone

 

Also have a Ibanez acoustic electric. 

---

I used to use d'addario 9's....now have exclusively used some bronze 10's that my music store recommended. I like the10's sound a lot better.



Kramer ZX 10 active pickups / airbrushed/ painted as a George Lynch clone


Also have a Ibanez acoustic electric.

Yeah.. you already talked yourself out of this conversation.. Hate to be rude, as you were, but nobody cares..

---

Yeah.. you already talked yourself out of this conversation.. Hate to be rude, as you were, but nobody cares..

 

Hahahaha, way to act like a jerk. smh... 

 

All I said was the song you liked wasn't good. or all that hard to play. Sorry that offended you so much. 

 

I guess regarding music I'm thicker skinned than you. 

---

Example..

 

http://youtu.be/Oo_D0rozqwI

 

Awesome video, I used to play guitar all the time when I was younger, I used to be able to read music could play all the riffs but man it's been YEARS. I can't read music anymore, but I find myself wanting to pick up the old guitar again, That said the video looks WAY more confusing to me then the sheet music I used to be able to read. It does however look like more fun then the sheet music I used to be able to read.

---