my hands are getting better

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Layla Nahar

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I posted about a month ago with questions about barre chords. Everybody was soo helpful and encorageing, I wanted to post again - I've made good progress, a kind of leap, suddenly I feel a greater control, my hands are going where I want them to go much more than before - I can make shapes and get my fingers to strings in a way I couldn't even a month ago. cool!
 
hey nice job. got me beat.

i can only play the G A C D chords on the 6 string. and i cant play a barre if my life depended on it.



i can still play my bass :)


freak
 
Bass Freak said:
hey nice job. got me beat.

freak
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well, now - I'm not saying I'm a Rock-it scientist, or anything like that...
 
It's weird how suddenly your fingers just know where to go. You just have to do it repeatedly untily your hands and brain can do it without you thinking about it. I'll practice while watching TV and just keep playing arpeggios or scales or whatever.

Wait until you start practicing finger picking. It will be amazingly hard at first but then after hours and hours of practicing it will just start to click. If you really practice regularly for about 20-30 minutes a day then should notice pretty big improvements every few months.

A good way of challenging yourself is to pick a song that is just a little too hard to play and keep practicing until you get it down cold. Some songs that helped my acoustic playing were Neil Young's "Needle and the Damage Done" (playing melody and rhythm at the same time with a walking bass line), Beatles "Blackbird" (fingerpicking), Stone Temple Pilots songs are pretty cool for learning some slightly 'jazzy' chords in a rock arrangement, Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" is a cool tune for fingerpicking and apreggios and there is a great tab of it on most sites. If you want to play with some open tunings then Goo Goo Dolls "Name" is a fun one and pretty easy to play.
 
Learn the Dead's Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. They are serious case studies in music theory.

And don't be afraid to transpose stuff into a key you can more easily play. Capos are good to have, and learning to transpose will teach you some of the relationships between tones.

Most of all, HAVE FUN PLAYING!
 
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