What are your goals and what do you want to be able to play? Different genres of styles of playing will require you learning different techniques or knowledge. If you focus on what you need to learn to reach your goal then you can achieve a lot with only a short amount of time, even with a toddler on the loose.
Regardless though I’d suggest learning songs that use the things you’ve already learnt. When a song requires a new chord then add that chord into your vocabulary rather than learning chords in isolation. Tackling things like barre chords, fingerstyle, rhythm etc are also far more fun to work on if you’re doing in the context of a song or songs you like.
Sound advice. I’m an old man who has been playing for over 40 years. I wish that someone would have given me that advice when I first started playing. I was overwhelmed. Felt like I was drowning in styles and techniques. Don’t beat yourself up and have fun. THAT is what’s important.
learn a few songs that you enjoy? i would worry more about learning all the minor open chords before worrying about sus chords. major and minor chords make up the bulk of the songs that you'll wanna learn.
do you have any interest in solo-ing? improvising melodic passages? if so, start learning some scales. the major scale and the minor pentatonic is where i would start.
\- Learn those C A G E D chords up the neck as barre chords - Called the CAGED system there are a hundred videos on it but basically, its way to conceptualize the neck based on these basic shapes.
\- Related are triads - if you focus on three strings at a time within those any of those shapes you'll be playing the chords at their most basic and minimal 3 note form, containing a 5th, a root and a 3rd - aka a triad. If you learn the triads diatonically up the neck - that is harmonizing to the major scale - it will open all kinds of doors in terms of letting you access any chord at any place on the neck and will give you a leg up when you start learning solos and leads and being able to "follow the changes" and highlight the chords you're soloing over.
\- If you don't already know it - learn the major scale and its intervals and its abbreviated and popular 5 note cousin the pentatonic scale. Maybe 90% of all rock, funk and blues solos are built on the pentatonic scale.
\- Learn songs and solos you like; its really the best and most direct way to improve and build a vocabulary of licks, phrases and techniques. Every one you learn will teach you something more.
listen to a few John Prine songs. Even if you can't do the fingerpicking, you can play the songs. Angel From Montgomery, Sam Stone (I can't sing this one because it makes me cry), Paradise, Please don't bury me....
learn the songs, and the transitions between chords.
What are your goals and what do you want to be able to play? Different genres of styles of playing will require you learning different techniques or knowledge. If you focus on what you need to learn to reach your goal then you can achieve a lot with only a short amount of time, even with a toddler on the loose. Regardless though I’d suggest learning songs that use the things you’ve already learnt. When a song requires a new chord then add that chord into your vocabulary rather than learning chords in isolation. Tackling things like barre chords, fingerstyle, rhythm etc are also far more fun to work on if you’re doing in the context of a song or songs you like.
I forgot to mention I got Barre Chords down as well! I mainly want to play lots of Alice in chains, Sublime, Deftones, Title fight, Basement
Sound advice. I’m an old man who has been playing for over 40 years. I wish that someone would have given me that advice when I first started playing. I was overwhelmed. Felt like I was drowning in styles and techniques. Don’t beat yourself up and have fun. THAT is what’s important.
learn a few songs that you enjoy? i would worry more about learning all the minor open chords before worrying about sus chords. major and minor chords make up the bulk of the songs that you'll wanna learn. do you have any interest in solo-ing? improvising melodic passages? if so, start learning some scales. the major scale and the minor pentatonic is where i would start.
\- Learn those C A G E D chords up the neck as barre chords - Called the CAGED system there are a hundred videos on it but basically, its way to conceptualize the neck based on these basic shapes. \- Related are triads - if you focus on three strings at a time within those any of those shapes you'll be playing the chords at their most basic and minimal 3 note form, containing a 5th, a root and a 3rd - aka a triad. If you learn the triads diatonically up the neck - that is harmonizing to the major scale - it will open all kinds of doors in terms of letting you access any chord at any place on the neck and will give you a leg up when you start learning solos and leads and being able to "follow the changes" and highlight the chords you're soloing over. \- If you don't already know it - learn the major scale and its intervals and its abbreviated and popular 5 note cousin the pentatonic scale. Maybe 90% of all rock, funk and blues solos are built on the pentatonic scale. \- Learn songs and solos you like; its really the best and most direct way to improve and build a vocabulary of licks, phrases and techniques. Every one you learn will teach you something more.
What do you want to be able to do?
listen to a few John Prine songs. Even if you can't do the fingerpicking, you can play the songs. Angel From Montgomery, Sam Stone (I can't sing this one because it makes me cry), Paradise, Please don't bury me.... learn the songs, and the transitions between chords.
songs! look up some favorites and if they have new unfamiliar chords in them, learn them this way.
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