12-11-15, 03:54 PM
Nog,
To be honest mate you sound like your on the right track, the guys are all giving you really sound advice.
If it were me, I would want to be playing something more than just scales to start with, so what I would do is start with the major chords, learn how to finger them, and switch between them smoothly, learn how to strum them cleanly, and once I could do that I would then start picking at the strings and playing the individual notes within the chords rather than just strumming.
Once you know that then it's simply a case of expanding into minor chords, 7th chords, barre chords etc
That might not sound like much, but even at 30mins a day, there's well over a months learning in there if you consider your fingers taking time to toughen up etc.
Once you have a good grasp of the main chords (read some of the tabs for your favourite songs, some chords are used a lot more than others), you can then look into scales and see what's what with regards to making your own finger shapes and chord patterns.
Chords are the key to good fingerpicking though nog, and scales are the key to understanding how chords are built up, it's all inter related.
That's if it were me anyway.
To be honest mate you sound like your on the right track, the guys are all giving you really sound advice.
If it were me, I would want to be playing something more than just scales to start with, so what I would do is start with the major chords, learn how to finger them, and switch between them smoothly, learn how to strum them cleanly, and once I could do that I would then start picking at the strings and playing the individual notes within the chords rather than just strumming.
Once you know that then it's simply a case of expanding into minor chords, 7th chords, barre chords etc
That might not sound like much, but even at 30mins a day, there's well over a months learning in there if you consider your fingers taking time to toughen up etc.
Once you have a good grasp of the main chords (read some of the tabs for your favourite songs, some chords are used a lot more than others), you can then look into scales and see what's what with regards to making your own finger shapes and chord patterns.
Chords are the key to good fingerpicking though nog, and scales are the key to understanding how chords are built up, it's all inter related.
That's if it were me anyway.