Hey man, nice to hear you joined us. Pebber is indeed a great teacher, it only requires hard work. Other than that, you just got to trust the process. Just commented on your old practicing video, if you have anything new, keep us posted.

Best regards.

Start with the basic strumming patterns and finger picking patterns and gradually move the difficult up a bit each week or every time you feel comfortable with your skills.

Here's a great lesson from Pebber, it's really good and you'll get a good knowledge on strumming patterns and some of the history behind it: search on YouTube Strumming Concepts part 1 (couldn't post the link).

If you like Jazz/big bands, that's a treat. I love this video.

If you need anything else, keep us posted.

Ah, and one more thing, if you can, try to practice with a metronome, it's really important to develop good timing - it's essencial to become a good rhythm guitar player (and to become a good musician, to be honest).

See ya, man.

That's nice man!
Keep going. It's only gonna get better from now on.

That's some serious dedication right there!

Can you send us one video of your new skills? It would be great to see where you are.

Best regards.

Sounds great man. But my great issue is with recording and having time to practice. But it might be a great motivation for me being involved with something like this. I'll see what I can do! At least I'll try to comment on the videos.

Looking good man! Great work!
Keep going, I'm sure that in a little while you'll be rippin' the fretboard.

I don't know if I'm a great shape to give you advice, but, if you can, try to make small movements on the left hand. Your picking technique is pretty solid, it's just a matter of time to get faster.

I've been without practicing for too much time now, hopefully I'll come back tomorrow (fingers crossed).

I don't see why you can't practice with different chords. In fact, I think it's great to add some variation to improve other aspects of your playing.

Picking on open strings is just as good as picking chords (in my experience). It all depends on what you want to achieve.

If you can, try practicing both ways. You won't have any "side effect", just as long as you do the exercises correctly.

Best of luck!

Man, your technique is amazing!
I think we won't have any tips for you, you're already in a good place.

Just stick with it!

Good luck and welcome aboard, my friend!

I think that we don't put everything into music simply because we fear the failure. Musicians (usually) don't make a lot of money, and depending on where you live, the result can be even worse - specially if you like some different style that's not popular on your region. So, for many of us, risking this type of life is not an option, and deep down we know this (that's just my 2 cents though).

As the repetition goes, that is really interesting. Because, Michael Jackson, for example, was a freak on that regard. He trained and rehearsed for hours and hours, and that includes dancing, singing and writing. He did it mainly because of his father at first, and this process went through his whole life. The man was a beast, and sure as hell was a perfectionist.

Another factor that I think plays a huge role is the simply love and satisfaction from playing/hearing music. And, in my experience, there's a huge gap from liking to hear songs to really love and try to understand music. The second part it's not that fun at first, and many, many people quit because it's damn hard. Everyone aspire or wants to be a "superstar", but sure as hell not a third of those people want to put in the hard work. Mainly because they simply figure it out that they don't love it as they think they did.

I also believe that talent exists. But without hard work, it won't take anyone anywhere. I studied psychology at university some years ago (didn't finished), and one of the topics that still makes me excited is the theory of multiple intelligences that Howard Gardner came up with some other scientists.

Basically, he says that some of us develop one type of cognitive area faster or better than others, and that IQ alone is not enough to "rate" or label someone (which I agree 100%). To me, that explain talent, and if we observe children we can see clearly that there's some areas that they pick up and excel really fast, while others they just don't improve much. Curiosity and motivation also plays a huge role, but for sure, talent or "gifts" exists. The only real question to me is this: do you think is god sent or scientific related? To me it doesn't matter and it's even a mixture of those two factors.

I always like to put Hendrix as an example. Everyone can play guitar, even get good at it. But to compose like Hendrix, it's pretty much impossible to get to that level. He had that "extra" that many of us won't have, even if we put our whole life into it.

Also, we always see great cover bands and guitar players or other musicians that can covers songs with extremely precision. But only a small percentage can really compose and touch somebody else. I think that's the difference that we all are trying to achieve in our music journey to some extent.

I rambled a lot on this comment, lmao. Sorry for the huge wall of text!

Now I got it!
In the future I'll send some videos over here.
But, one thing is certain: I still suck!

Thanks for the help guys!

Glad to hear is not out yet.
Hopefully I can buy one copy!

Thank you for all your work, Pebber!