I watch Ben Ellers youtbe channel. He has got a playlist which is called "This is why you suck at guitar" covering topics and showing bad habits vs good technique and what not to do and how to do it right instead. He explains it with some humor and it all sounds and looks very logiical to me so i watch them from time to time if i feel like doing something wrong while picking and those things. His videos are easy to access so whenever i need quick good advice i search through his playlists
I also watch creativeguitar and Rick Beato which show how music theory can be applied in depth and are easily to understand. Rick Beato especially covers more of the theory and talks about more advanced stuff but it's really interesting and fun listenig and learning something out of it even if it's for more advanced players or musicians in general.
I don't use any websites as i don't like reading the things all to much and or dislike pictures or documents which present you with "solutions" or guides on how to do certain finger placements to play certain things. So i don't really use those.
And then there is this one video i watch from time to time which shows excercises Pebber shows too but in a more compact format which is for total beginners (like myself) to practice.
I'm back with questions! Lately i have been learning mostly about music theory and ideas for scales and i wrote all that down nicely and i'm very proud of all this. Because i didn't use premade documents or anything but i have played less on my guitar. I think i made a mistake digging deeper into the theory as i now see so much stuff i could practice. Pentatonic Scales, the standard wwhwwwh formula and appregios and chords and so on. And when i sit down and open my book i simply don't know what i should start with. So i started with practicing a little bit of pentatonics just exploring how they sound for maybe 20 minutes and then i switch to the normal Major Scales and back and forth. I then throw in chromatic excercises for 20 to 30 minutes but i think i'm actually doing this wrong.
I have the feeling that i'm stuck at these now, seeking new things to practice and i know that this is the wrong approach. I can't even navigate the fretboard somewhat fluently yet but already want to start with something new, adding to the list more and more things.
It felt very fresh exploring music theory basics and some advanced things because it felt like steps foward. But now i think i can't go further yet without getting all that into my playing first which removes this feeling of making steps foward. It's hard to explain for me but i hope you get what i mean. It feels like not making progress. What i have on paper i can't play yet and i also won't be able to play any of it anytime soon if i mix all of that every time i practice i think. I watched Pebbers Videos on what to practice and what he shows in those are all excercises for technique and practicing clean and fluent playing. So should i just keep music theory and scales aside and just do those excercises until i can do them as clean as possible for a beginner level before starting scale memorizing excercises or should i mix those excercises with scales? Am i not improving my technique while doing scales too? I don't know what i should prioritise anymore :/
Oh wow, thanks all for so many answers! I knew about mods and tried to learn them in theory but stopped as it was a bit to complicated and i haven't reached that point in my playing yet. I didn't recognise that my question about the G Major scale would turn out to have to do with mods... I think i will just do as you all suggested and simply practice all the scales in all the positions. I also can't wait to subscribe to Pebber soon. I will most likely be given less advanced things to practice forst but at least i will have guidance then :). Until then i will try to watch more of his videos on youtube. I stopped watching them because i didn't want to overload my brain with all kinds of theory so i could concentrate on what i know so far.
Thanks again for all the advice! I really appreciate that!
Hi, welcome to this board. I'm also new but with way less experience! You will surely have a much easier time getting Pebbers Lessons right with your 3 years of experience so don't look so negative at your skills on the guitar :) Good luck with the practicing, i'm looking foward to see your playing and maybe learn a few things from watching you doing some excercises!
Hello all, thanks again for your advice in my first thread i created!
I got a problem in my practice routine with Major scales. When i start playing a scale i at first started with the first note, for example G for G-Major and apply the WWhWWWh rule to find the rest of them on the fretboard. But this requires me to start on G. But what if i want to start on E?
Here is my problem, because i can't apply WWhWWWh on the E, it will be the E Major scale then instead of the G Major.
If i want to play G Major starting on E, it would be WhWWhWWWhW.... cont. But this is really difficult to remember... So how do i memorize best if i start the G Major on E with WhWW... or if i start G Major with A (WhWWWhWW...) Do i need to memorize this for every Scale or am i thinking wrong about this and always start at G? What if a song is in G Major but starts on a B? How do i do this?
I want to practice being able to start any scale with any note in it and continue it but it seems like i really need to memorize these different steps... What now? Should i commit one week for each scale instead of doing multiple each day?
I hope it's not to confusing.
Of course the easiest to do is C Maj. I wish they all would be that easy.
Thank you for praising my English and sharing your stories and advice with me! I will try to start the subscription next month! I hope i will be able to provide good recordings of my playing as i have no experience with video editing and those things. I will try my best. I just continued with music theory lessons and picking and left hand excercises for now and i really feel like i made the right decision to keep at it instead of listening to the teacher i told you about. Thanks again!
Hello all! I'm a new user on this board and English is not my native language so i'm sorry to bother you with it. I picked up a guitar, found Pebber's YT channel and got told that i suck and i really liked it. So i watched alot and wrote down most of his music theory lessons and started with picking excercises and chromatic scales. Drifted into pentatonic and so on. I practiced for 1 month so far and i'm really happy with those excercises because i feel that i'm slowly improving which is alot of fun. So i seeked out a local guitar teacher to get a second opinion of a professional face to face too. He wrote in his biography that he plays for 27years and studied in munich and i the usa and all that stuff so i was very positive but then this happend.
When i got there i of course told him that i'm a beginner, and that i know nothing yet, only a bit of usic theory and picking excercises and some left hand excercises i learned on youtube (didn't tell him i learned from Pebber). And he told me that i started wrong, that those would be excercises for advanced students who are 2 or 3 years in his programm and told me that it's interesting that i started early with music theory but should not continue picking excercises and scales and instead learn chords and rythm first. I was very upset at that, because i have alot of fun doing those excercises and especially the pentatonics sound so nice while doing them that i would feel it'll be very wrong to drop them. He then asked me to play something i know. And i showed him the C M pentatonic scale, of course i messed up because i got nervous but i corrected those mistakes and he just sat there and told me that i played a simple melody.
We then talked about what i wanted to achive and my main goal is to be able to improvise and play anything i can hear on the guitar or write down songs and translate them into being able to be played with the guitar alone. He told me that this is a very far away goal and i'm of course very aware of that. He all in all was very sceptical and was suprised that i started that early with alternate picking excercises and wants me to learn chords only for now so i can work on playing songs....
My goal is not to cover songs forever... i want to play something. I want it to sound good with the right technique. What should i do? Stick to Pebber and maybe subscribe to Pebber or go with the local teacher and learn picking and left hand scales later on?
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