Guitar help please
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:00 am
Hey people,
I've had a guitar for the past 3 or so years now- an ESP LTD, M-50. I had guitar lessons for a few months and was progressing very well, until they had to be cancelled for some irrelevant reason.
I've been chipping away at it for the past 2 or so years, but don't seem to have progressed much at all. Since my lessons were stopped only a few months in, I was still at a very basic level and seem to have been stranded in that rut since.
I learned (and have now forgotten) pentatonic scales in the key of A and G, and a few songs so my chord knowledge spans about a dozen chords tops.
Basically, I just seem to be repeating the very simple songs and scales I learned, and have learned only a few riffs and so on. I mean, where do I go from here? I feel completely frustrated because my improvisation is non-existant, my fingering fairly clumsy and my music reading pitiful.
I was wondering if any of you could tell me where to go from here- names of simple songs/riffs to get started, or maybe a point in the direction of scales or special guitar fingering or any sort of guitar theory I should pick up before I go on. I think maybe starting from the bottom up will help get back on track and maybe get me motivated again, so any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I've had a guitar for the past 3 or so years now- an ESP LTD, M-50. I had guitar lessons for a few months and was progressing very well, until they had to be cancelled for some irrelevant reason.
I've been chipping away at it for the past 2 or so years, but don't seem to have progressed much at all. Since my lessons were stopped only a few months in, I was still at a very basic level and seem to have been stranded in that rut since.
I learned (and have now forgotten) pentatonic scales in the key of A and G, and a few songs so my chord knowledge spans about a dozen chords tops.
Basically, I just seem to be repeating the very simple songs and scales I learned, and have learned only a few riffs and so on. I mean, where do I go from here? I feel completely frustrated because my improvisation is non-existant, my fingering fairly clumsy and my music reading pitiful.
I was wondering if any of you could tell me where to go from here- names of simple songs/riffs to get started, or maybe a point in the direction of scales or special guitar fingering or any sort of guitar theory I should pick up before I go on. I think maybe starting from the bottom up will help get back on track and maybe get me motivated again, so any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.