Does anyone follow some of the Guitar teachers on youtube? I like Brian from Activemelody.com. His methods are to the point without all the theory stuff. He has a lot
of free lessons too. How did you learn Guitar? Are you self taught? Did you take lessons? I think technology has really made learning the guitar or any instrument for that matter a real pleasure.


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Re: Youtube Teachers
By: HusTler to All on Sun Apr 05 2020 01:30 pm

Does anyone follow some of the Guitar teachers on youtube? I like Brian from Activemelody.com. His methods are to the point without all the theory stuff. He has a lot of free lessons too. How did you learn Guitar? Are you self taught? Did you take lessons? I think technology has really made learning the guitar or any instrument for that matter a real pleasure.

I've seen some instructional videos on YouTube from various teachers, for various songs I've wanted to learn.

I'm self taught. Both my parents, and my older brother, all play guitar. So one day when I was 14, I picked up one of my mom's guitars and a guitar chord book and started learning chords and some simple songs to play with the chords, and it went on from there.

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Re: Youtube Teachers
By: Nightfox to HusTler on Thu May 21 2020 11:23 pm

Does anyone follow some of the Guitar teachers on youtube? I like Brian from Activemelody.com. His methods are to the point without all the

I've seen some instructional videos on YouTube from various teachers, for various songs I've wanted to learn.
I'm self taught. Both my parents, and my older brother, all play guitar. So day when I was 14, I picked up one of my mom's guitars and a guitar chord bo and started learning chords and some simple songs to play with the chords, a it went on from there.

My parents paid for lessons when I was a kid. I hated it but did learn the "proper" way to play a guitar. After the lessons ended I continued to teach myself. I'm an old man now and still play 2-3 hours a day. My biggest fear of dying is not being able to play the guitar. That's how much I love playing.

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Re: Youtube Teachers
By: HusTler to Nightfox on Sat May 23 2020 07:24 am

My parents paid for lessons when I was a kid. I hated it but did learn the "proper" way to play a guitar. After the lessons ended I continued to teach myself. I'm an old man now and still play 2-3 hours a day. My biggest fear of dying is not being able to play the guitar. That's how much I love playing.

I've considered looking into the "proper" way, and learning things like scales & such. I also like playing piano/synthesizer sometimes, and I've never taken piano lessons either. Sometimes I'll get strange looks from people who have taken formal lessons when I can't read sheet music etc.. The piano seems interesting in how to properly form chords & stuff, and that's something I might be interested in learning more about.

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Re: Youtube Teachers
By: Nightfox to HusTler on Sat May 23 2020 11:25 am

My parents paid for lessons when I was a kid. I hated it but did learn
the "proper" way to play a guitar. After the lessons ended I continued

I've considered looking into the "proper" way, and learning things like scal & such. I also like playing piano/synthesizer sometimes, and I've never take piano lessons either. Sometimes I'll get strange looks from people who have taken formal lessons when I can't read sheet music etc.. The piano seems

Learned how to read sheet music with my lessons. My son learned with Guitar Tabs. I can't read Tabs for shit. Right now I'm happy with the free lessons I can find on youtube.

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Re: Youtube Teachers
By: HusTler to Nightfox on Mon May 25 2020 10:53 pm

Learned how to read sheet music with my lessons. My son learned with Guitar Tabs. I can't read Tabs for shit. Right now I'm happy with the free lessons I can find on youtube.

Tabs are really easy to read. They literally show you where to put your fingers on the fretboard of a guitar for the various chords & notes. That's somethnig you'd need to know anyway in order to translate sheet music to a guitar.

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HusTler wrote:

Does anyone follow some of the Guitar teachers on youtube? I like Brian from Activemelody.com. His methods are to the point without all the theory stuff. He has a lot
of free lessons too. How did you learn Guitar? Are you self taught? Did you take lessons? I think technology has really made learning the guitar or any instrument for that matter a real pleasure.

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I started off learning Sultans of Swing through online guitar
instructionals, then I got a guitar teacher for a few months. I still use online tutorials, nobody specific. I find a lot of them do things
differently, or incorrectly once you really dig down into it.

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Re: Youtube Teachers
By: HusTler to Nightfox on Mon May 25 2020 10:53 pm

Learned how to read sheet music with my lessons. My son learned with
Guitar Tabs. I can't read Tabs for shit. Right now I'm happy with the free
lessons I can find on youtube.

Tabs are really easy to read. They literally show you where to put your fingers on the fretboard of a guitar for the various chords & notes. That's somethnig you'd need to know anyway in order to translate sheet music to a guitar.

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I was going to say that. The only thing the tabs don't do, generally, is
show you the duration of the notes or where rests are and things like that. They assume you're familiar enough with the song.

e----------
b----------
g----------
d----------
a----------
e----------

tabs are laid out low E at the bottom, high e at the top. It'll usually tell you if you need to use a drop D, open tuning, capo etc.

Then literally which frets to put your fingers on.

e--2-------
b--3-------
g--2-------
d--0-------
a----------
e----------

This shows to play fret 2 on the high e, 3 on the b, and 2 on the g then
play the d string open. Obviously, your D chord.


e--0-------
b--2-------
g--2-------
d--2-------
a--0-------
e----------

And your A chord. These differ from the guitar chord boxes you see in printed music because it doesn't give which finger to use.

That said, you may find some finger style picking tab

p i m i a i m i
e|---------0-------
b|-----1-------1---
g|---0---0---0---0-
d|-----------------
a|-3---------------
e|-----------------

p-thumb, i-index, m-middle a-ring finger


There's different types of bends

g-------5b7-----

Bend up on fret 5 until it sounds like fret 7

e-------r2-----

Releae down

g-----pb7-----

Prebend on 7th fret


------6h8------

hammer on 6 to 8

------8p6------

pull off 8 to 6

-----7s12------7/12-----

Either can be use to represent a slide from 7 to 12.


-----12s7------12\7-----

Represing a slide from 12 to 7


There's a lot of other lesser used tabs such has harmonics, tapping, etc.
This should get most people through a basic tab.

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Re: Re: Youtube Teachers
By: Nelgin to Nightfox on Tue May 26 2020 11:14 am

I was going to say that. The only thing the tabs don't do, generally, is show you the duration of the notes or where rests are and things like that. They assume you're familiar enough with the song.

Yep. I find tabs useful, and they're especially handy if you don't read sheet music.

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Re: Re: Youtube Teachers
By: Nelgin to HusTler on Tue May 26 2020 10:58 am

I started off learning Sultans of Swing through online guitar instructionals, then I got a guitar teacher for a few months. I still use online tutorials, nobody specific. I find a lot of them do things differently, or incorrectly once you really dig down into it.

Sultans of Swing? Great song! You finger pick? I've messed around with finger picking but it's too much work to learn.

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Re: Re: Youtube Teachers
By: HusTler to Nelgin on Wed May 27 2020 07:47:04

Sultans of Swing? Great song! You finger pick? I've messed around with finger picking but it's too much work to learn.

I've never used a pick. Actually, I lie. I took some guitar lessons at school when I was about 8 but it didn't really last. I probably waste more time trying to learn songs by trying to figure which fingers to use. Crazy Train is near impossible. Strumming is pretty easy.

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Re: Re: Youtube Teachers
By: Nelgin to Nightfox on Tue May 26 2020 11:14 am

Tabs are really easy to read. They literally show you where to put your fingers on the fretboard of a guitar for the various chords & notes. That's

e----------
b----------
g----------
d----------
a----------
e----------

Then literally which frets to put your fingers on.

e--2-------
b--3-------
g--2-------
d--0-------
a----------
e----------

This shows to play fret 2 on the high e, 3 on the b, and 2 on the g then play the d string open. Obviously, your D chord.

Thanks for the explanantion. I still prefer sheet music with the chord diagrams. ;-) Can't teach an old dog new tricks.

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Re: Re: Youtube Teachers
By: Nightfox to Nelgin on Tue May 26 2020 10:39:54

When I was in high school, most of guitarist in my school start from tab also. Back then I remember that Dream Theater was super cool, and thier music is so unique. So tab is the only fastest way for us to learn their music.

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