Any advice for people who have recently started playing the acoustic guitar? (lemmy.world)

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Hello, I recently bought an acoustic guitar, and this is my second attempt at learning to play.

I made some progress, teaching myself basic chords and strumming, but I'm having trouble following sheet music/chord patterns and similar resources. Sometimes, when I'm watching a YouTube video on how to play a song, they don't provide the strumming pattern or other details.

I've only been playing for a month, and I really enjoy it, but I feel like I'm starting to slow down again. I did download a book on how to improve my playing, which I plan to read later today.

I was wondering if anyone had a few resources they'd be willing to share.

Thank you!

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[-] Guitarfun@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

For me it really helped finding arrangements of rock/metal, punk, and pop stuff. Some video game music too. I'd say try to find simple arrangements of your favorite songs. I'm no expert, but I've been playing almost daily for 5 years with no lessons.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 0 points 5 days ago

One Final Effort is really hard. Got any good video game songs for learning?

[-] Guitarfun@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QY5SWHMPwI8

This is the easiest version of One Final Effort I've found. Not super hard, but not beginner level. Keep it and try to play it slowly at first.

As for other video game songs, look into Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger, older zelda stuff, older pokemon songs. Things like that would be better to start with. Really anything slow that you're already familiar with.

A few of the VG songs I used to learn were

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOOkfDXw0jM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lKGxoAlNhc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kkUryy_DRSI

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2gaAEiq2vgQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJnhg3QNe_M

Try to think of stuff like that to start. You can find tons of these easy sheets for free if you look around too. Although I did pay for musescore until they started charging me extra with no warning.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -4 points 5 days ago

Alas, drag never got into JRPGs, but drag will try One Final Effort and your other songs when drag can

[-] Guitarfun@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Maybe you'd like these more:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=49e7gZ13-oA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vpCwRryy0kk

You can find simple arrangements of almost anything.

Otherwise just keep at it man. You'll get there if you keep practicing.

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