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.

  • Sinistar [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Man, I should break out my guitar too. It’s been years.

    Anyway last time I played it I found that the game Rocksmith was great at getting me to play more. There’s a community that makes custom songs for the game, everything from The Ramones to the Sonic Adventure soundtrack is out there. It turns your practice into a game and it has tools like breaking down specific sections of a song and slowing it down to practice tough parts. It won’t teach you a whole lot of music theory but it’ll work out your fingers and very quickly give you a repertoire that you can mildly impress other people with, which is fun.

    It does require you to have an electric guitar and a way to send its audio directly to your PC. The USB cable that the game came with works fine but I got an audio interface (this one specifically) which worked better and as a bonus let me record really clean audio for myself when I was messing around with that.

    • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Fitgirl has a repack on her site with all DLC included. Haven’t tried it out with custom DLC, but your only other option nowadays is buying through Ubisoft Connect or steam key sellers because it’s removed for purchase from the steam store. Plus some versions (not this torrent) have Denuvo added too 🤢

      https://fitgirl-repacks.site/rocksmith-2014-edition-remastered/

      Also, you can use an acoustic guitar if you have a way to mic it and an audio interface pipe the sound to your PC. It worked surprisingly well in my room with central heating running.

    • AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Man, I should break out my guitar too. It’s been years.

      Do it, I’ve found it to be very rewarding after only a few weeks.

      Rocksmith is an interesting one, I remember it coming out right around the time I stopped playing guitar and I always wanted to try it. I figured if it inspired me to play guitar half as much as I played Guitar Hero I’d get pretty good, but I never followed though. Maybe I should revisit it, seems like fun and a good workout if nothing else.