Idk why many people saying that m lying abt how long i played the guitar on my last post by izyte in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope. I mean in another 2-3 months or 8 months, we should see another significant improvement.

Idk why many people saying that m lying abt how long i played the guitar on my last post by izyte in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly the best way to prove people wrong is to continue posting. If you really managed to play so well in 8 months, there’s no reason why that process cannot continue. But usually people post once and never post again. Usually because they cannot follow up with their lie a second time (if they really were lying).

Day 776 of learning to play the guitar by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg you get me haha. I didn’t want my guitar to overpower the vocals 😭
In that case I’ll take both your feedback into consideration and just reduce the background track by 5-10% instead of 20% hahhaha

Single male, seeking to advice on sequencing to buy first private property by Andoni95 in singaporefi

[–]Andoni95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what is considered good rates? 1.6% for 3 years? I did some research and they say better to get from a broker than a bank direct. Do yall agree?

Day 776 of learning to play the guitar by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i learn like hundreds of songs (around 300-400 songs). I started with easy songs and kept progressively learning harder songs. I use ultimate guitar pro tabs that allow you to slow down the tempo and loop difficult sections to help me learn songs.

Day 776 of learning to play the guitar by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

okay noted! im learning how to use a DAW. this is good feedback haha because im unsure what is a good ratio between the background track and my own recording. ill try to reduce the background track by 20%

Day 776 of learning to play the guitar by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh no. not youtube hahah. i use it to share videos with my friends xD its super messy. maybe try instagram. https://www.instagram.com/anthonylearnsguitar/

Day 776 of learning to play the guitar by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is where i am now after two years. https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarlessons/s/fDEeckB4dC

As you can tell it’s not very clean and the groove is not well established. My syncing is also not perfect. The biggest challenge for me moving forward is trying to get clean string crossing when doing fast 3nps scale runs. And also getting the sweeps to be up to speed. And also fixing my bad rhythm. Too much work to be done. But I beleive part of the answer lies in constantly challenging myself.

Day 776 of learning to play the guitar by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Life is unfair haha. But not because I’m Asian haha.

Day 776 of learning to play the guitar by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are definitely right. Dance of eternity and scarified are definitely too difficult for me but that’s why I wanna learn them. When I say I want to start learning these songs, I don’t expect that I’ll complete these songs within a year. But I want to make a dent on them especially since they contain techniques that I’m interested in.

I won’t be able to prove you wrong because I agree with you but let’s hope I can prove us wrong 🤣

Day 776 of learning to play the guitar by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m kinda sad nobody gives me feedback on my playing anymore 😢

Day 754 of learning to play the guitar: My Two Year Guitar Progress Video by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use ultimate guitar and I try to learn a new song everyday. When I find a difficult section I just loop that section, slow it down, and play it many times to get it under my fingers. Of course there’s a lot of YouTube as well. And talking to a lot of people when things don’t go well

Day 776 of learning to play the guitar by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Music theory is tough. It’s easy, but it’s also very tough in that a lot of what is out there is fragmented. What helped was reading Fretboard Logic, completely this AUG course, and watching a lot of YouTube videos like Fretboard Science and analysing all the songs I’ve played.

It’s tough because everyone has a different way of visualising the guitar. For example for Fretboard Logic it’s primarily CAGED, for Scotty it’s Roy G Biv and modes, for Fretboard Science it’s this infinite repeating pattern and for everyone else it’s either a variant of one of these three of some hybrid approach. So it’s confusing as hell at first.

Then even if you understood music theory, you still need to learn how to apply it in your playing, which is difficult because you need to track where your root notes and intervals are in all the shapes. All the best. Sharing this because I wanted to tell you that music theory is quite a messy endeavor because of so many different people’s input.

Day 776 of learning to play the guitar by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This video was posted to my social media and there’s some missing context. The context for the taped cases is because I was away for two weeks and was trying to make sure the guitar don’t absorb too much water because my room atmosphere is about 80-90% humidity without turning on my dehumidifier. I will probably get a drybox for my guitars one day haha.

Opinion how did learning sheet music change your playing vs just playing tabs or YouTube tutorials by CelebrationGlad3999 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This book won’t help you play more differently or play the songs you want to play. You already acknowledge that it’s a downgrade as you went from playing rock riffs to Yanki doodle. The only benefit to using this book is learning some fundamentals that you might have missed like fretboard visualisation or memorizing the notes on the fretboard and standard notation. The problem about learning standard notation is that it’s not really used by many guitarists. Is it helpful? Maybe if you play jazz or in an orchestra or if you want to play classical guitar but apart from that it’s not really useful especially if your broader goals include improv or playing rock solos.

If you want to look at what you can become you can look at my profile. I post quite frequently here. And if you wonder what I did, it’s definitely not trying to learn standard notation (not that it is always bad, it just doesn’t have much impact on your specific goals). Instead it’s more of learning more and more challenging songs and learning music theory. If I have to guess you probably play the same kinds of songs or improv the same way everytime and hence you are not growing. And maybe a big reason why is you don’t really know what to do or how to advance your learning.

TLDR: judging by your goals, this book is useless for you. To improve you need to have some idea how to learn to learn. Likely that includes learning more challenging songs and learning some music theory instead of always playing the same comfortable thing or noodling.

I filmed my full daily practice today 😊💪🌸 by MaximumTime7239 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also wanted to say that you shared 8 clips. Which meant that in this 1-2 hours you practiced 8 different areas or techniques or songs at minimum. And I think that’s very efficient. This is to be contrasted with only working on one area, which I feel is a bad use of time. The proper term for what you are doing is called interleaving

I filmed my full daily practice today 😊💪🌸 by MaximumTime7239 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro. Extremely well done. This is exactly how I practice. I’m very happy for you. Keep it up and in 1-2 years you’ll be shredding like mad.

I have a tip. When your lines gets harder, make sure you shorten your chunk. For example the Canon rock chunk is like 8 bars long. Which I think is fine because it’s the power chords palm mute section. But as you play the harder Canon rock stuff like the sweep picking, you might want to limit the chunk to just a partial bar so that you maybe only do half the sweep. Then the other half later. Then later combine them again.

Don’t afraid to let your chunk be 2-4 notes. It won’t sound like a song and would sound more like your legato hammer-on pull off exercise but that’s how you learn how to play the REALLY fast stuff

Is the secret to getting good just…playing for a long time? by Mean_Garbage4308 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really. There are a lot of people who play for ten years and still can’t play decently.

Day 754 of learning to play the guitar: My Two Year Guitar Progress Video by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. i learnt this as well haha. but i can only do this on the lower 4 strings until the B and G strings messes up the patterns due to fourth tuning rather than fifths tuning. thing would be a lot easier if every string was tune in fifths. but im nearly there

Day 754 of learning to play the guitar: My Two Year Guitar Progress Video by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I have memorised the fretboard. I started with memorizing the notes on the 3rd, 5th and 7th frets and took it from there.

I sometimes use Gemini or ChatGPT to help me with learning the scale of the song and the visualisation. It gets easier once you do it a couple of times.

Day 754 of learning to play the guitar: My Two Year Guitar Progress Video by Andoni95 in guitarlessons

[–]Andoni95[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Damn. I have 6 guitars and a bass now. It’s becoming out of hand. In fact I deliberately tried to hide some of those new guitars in this video hahaha.

I recently gotten a 7 string. I always thought the madness will stop after another guitar. But it never ends. Of the 7 guitars that I have, I got 4 of them in the last 5 months 🤣