I need advice from an experienced guitar player?

I’ve been playing acoustic guitar for a few months. I’m doing pretty good, I can play the basic chords, a few songs, etc. I have a teacher that I see once a week for private lessons.

What should I work on that would make me a better player?
Any tips?
Any song suggestions?

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4 Responses to “I need advice from an experienced guitar player?”

1. untilguy says:

   August 26, 2010 at 3:28 pm

   Practice, experiment, and put your heart into what you play. If you just want to sound like someone else buy sheet music and listen to them play and copy. But if you can learn to translate what you are feeling into the music you play you may become an artist.
2. Left-T says:

   August 26, 2010 at 4:18 pm

   Develop your ear training to be able to recognize chords faster and is also a valuable tool when you hear a song and don’t have an instrument available. At least, you can write down the chord progression from what you hear.

   Practice and play with your favorite music. Since you are talking courses, you can also get ahead by going online for advanced lessons.

   Here are 2 good sites to learn pentatonic scales, and learning modes.

   http://guitarsecrets.com/

   http://www.guitar-lessons.com/
3. rick(y) says:

   August 26, 2010 at 4:37 pm

   just practice practice practice. try making your own stuff. also learn to read tabs, its the easiest way to learn new songs. go to ultimate-guitar.com you can find almost any song there
4. guitarpicker56 says:

   August 26, 2010 at 5:24 pm

   The tips from Left-T are great ones to focus on so work on your listening technique.

   Also, focus on learning the Chromatic Scale, or those chords that are termed moveable. Such a chord is the standard F major. By advancing up and down the fretboard, each new position of that F chord becomes another chord name. The same holds true for the Fm, Bb, Bbm, C#, and Ab formations found in the first fret.

   Ask your teacher about them and if you are ready to work through them.