What Are Some Good Things to Practice When I Play Guitar (Scales, Arpeggios, Chord Progression, Sight Reading)?
I’ve been playing guitar for a little more then two years now. I am able to play all major, minor and dominiate chords, I know most movable jazz scales but would like to learn more. I really would like sweep scales/ arpeggio scales because i feel i need the most work in that area. i have just begun sight reading too. If you know of any good practice techniques or methods, share them with me. Links or Scale charts would also be nice. thanks
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Hi Tyler
Here is a good site for sweeps and arpeggios
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/arpeggio.php
and as for scales
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php?qqq=3&scch=C&scchnam=Major&get2=Get&t=0&choice=1
You should try learning guitar through video lessons like the site: http://www.UltimateGuitarSchool.com
i don’t play guitar, but sight reading is sight reading on any instrument.
sight reading has 2 components: 1st – reading with your eyes+brain+inner hearing (analyzing), and 2nd – finding the positions on the instrument and actual playing. so:
1. pick very easy music sheet for starters (and work gradually towards more and more complex and difficult ones)
2. work with a metronome (to keep you constantly in time), set at a low bpm (again, gradually, as you become better reader, increase bpm). this is important because all beginners have a natural tendency to stop whenever they miss a note. sight reading is not about perfect play at first sight, occasional mistakes do not matter, what is important is that you keep in time. if you hit a wrong note, make sure the next one comes in time.
3. divide and conquer: first read without the instrument. start the metronome and sing (or say, it doesn’t matter if you can’t sing) the notes. this lets you focus on notation recognition, and this is the brain-and-eye training stage. only after that you take the guitar and play the same music sheet.
and, most important, at all time and at all stages, the eyes and the brain should be one bar ahead of what you are playing! before starting, analyze the first bar, then, while you play it, analyze the second one, and so on.
best luck