Any experienced guitar players have advice on how to learn better?
I played very little in highschool and now, 15 years later, I have the urge to go back to it. I've been playing for an hour or so most days for the last month which I know isn't a lot but lets be honest, it's just for my own enjoyment, I have no illusions of being a middle aged rock star.
Anyway I was wondering if people had any advice, good resources, sheet music that isn't garbage?
In my position would you go the self taught route or is it really important to have a tutor? I'm particularly concerned about picking up bad technique and then practicing that, I feel like that was a big part of why I gave up in the first place - fucking up the same things no matter how many times I did them because I learned them wrong.
Thanks all.
Question, do you grow out your fingernails?
I can't, not to the extent I think you mean like with some professional players, because of my work - I'd break a lot of nails!
What I do is let them grow sort of longer than somebody who doesn't at all, and it means that I experience a kind of cycle of playing - when they're short I have to adjust and use fingertips, and when they're longer I get a louder sound and can do certain more 'aggressive' styles easier. But it makes it a slightly different play style depending on how long they've grown. Also, I think those players grow their nails so long also shape them to be more pointed than normal, but I'm not sure. Broadly speaking, it isn't necesarry for most styles of playing, and you can satisfactorally approximate the ones where its most common without doing it. With a steel string, I would buy the plastic fingertip things rather than relying on nails, or just play quieter.
Ah, cool. Yeah I was just feeling out how necessary it was. I'm guess some styles and sounds it's more beneficial, others it matters less. I like to keep them quite short though as a matter of preference.
Cheers.