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Tips for Self-Teaching Guitar?

I started playing guitar about 8 months ago. I am completely self-taught. I know 20-30 chords, power chords, and barre chords, I can read tabs, and I can write a few simple riffs from scales. But, I’m planning on becoming a solo artist, so I’d like to take it to the next level, like alternate tunings, finger picking, arpeggios, and ways to write more complex riffs and solos. Does anybody have any tips or websites I can use for things like that?

  1. Can I bum a smoke?
    September 25th, 2010 at 08:04 | #1

    learn theory

    learn to play the same songs/scales/whatever in different tunings

    play with other people–even if you want to be primarily a solo act it is extremely beneficial to play with others

  2. paul g
    September 25th, 2010 at 08:04 | #2

    well im completely self taught too and ive learned to play songs like sweet child o’ mine and enter sandman ect… but the way i did was i just took it easy on what i thought would be easy and gradually built it from there, so from whatever point your at right now (idk cause cause you didnt give any songs or anything) take it, and build on it to harder things like alternative picking, sweeping, shredding, stuff like that, i taught myself how to do all that just from looking up tabs and just figuring it out cause it was in my range of skill. hope i helped(:

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