Step 6

Good Job! You've been going at a fast pace for people that are just beginners. There are a lot of advanced stuff that we looked at. This is going to have to be my last post for this topic. I know my one follower will be sad. But we have to carry on. I want you to take a look at Arpeggios.

Arpeggios

Just a review here, but Arpeggios are a musical technique where notes in a chord are played in sequence. One after the other is usually how it's played. This is a beginner's instructional video for Arpeggios. It goes on for a bit about scales and arpeggios, but it is necessary to know the difference. He knows much more than I do about the guitar than I do, but I too, am still learning.
Visit his site to get the Arpeggio shapes.


It's a bit long but very useful.


Now that is just showing you how to start. There's a whole other world of things you can do with Arpeggios. I'll give you a link to see just how advanced you can become. Here is Arpeggios From Hell.

This is the fastest I've ever seen anyone play Arpeggios. So good luck with leaning them!

Step by Step
Now we have somethings to go through. We have been through a lot of things with these few "steps." Like in Step One, the first thing we did was go through just the first string and now look how far we are. Then, we moved to an electric guitar, and moved on from there. Electric and Acoustic guitars have a very different feel. One you might be completely comfortable with and then with the other, you might have a little trouble getting used to.

Step number three, I really liked. Showing you someones real progress, and showing you another person's skill. It is a tough thing to do to be dedicated to doing anything long enough to master it. Especially the guitar, because you never truly stop learning it. After that, we moved onto scales. Scales are a great guitar tool to know. It is a critical tool to know before you start doing your solos like Kirk Hammett.

Then we had our fifth step. I posted a video of me playing my favourite song. Again, it's not perfect, but I just enjoy playing and listening to that song. This step was basically a review of Dean's progress, how to play scales, and setting up for Arpeggios. If you have ever looked at my blog more than a quick glance, you'll see that to the right, I have an RSS feed from www.ultimate-guitar.com which is my favourite guitar tabs site. And above right at the top, are additional instructional videos on learning the guitar. And I just have to say this, although it's not the best guitar playing int the world, I'm proud to have my video out for the word to see.

Final Reflection
I know I never marked where I was reflecting before, but this is the last one. I feel like I have to. It has been fun going through the guitar with you, but class is done tomorrow, and blogs take a lot of work and keeping up a blog with two jobs, two separate sports teams, and going through other courses will be tough. I know that with the end of this, you're going to have to find your own little instructional sites like I had to before this. So, here is a tool that I use the most and how I came to use it.

Well, when I first started playing the guitar, all my mentors moved away for school and such, so they gave me a site that they used and downloaded. Now it's my turn to give it to you. Even though it costs a small chunk of your money, I feel that it is the greatest tool that anyone could have given me. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Guitar Pro. It literally takes the learning out of learning. A great thing about it is, you can log onto my favourite guitar tabs site and download Guitar Pro tabs and it actually goes through the song with you. There are a lot of useful tools in that download. You can slow down the song, learn the different guitar parts (if there is more than one guitarist) and use different guitar sounds.

There are also a lot of good and bad videos you can find on YouTube. But ultimate guitar does have lessons you can use too. I don't often have to look further than ultimate guitar and just that there shows how useful and how resourceful a site it is.



Thinking back on it, it would have been a really awesome idea to take pictures of me working on this blog and posting a slideshow at the end. Like right here, at the bottom would have been nice, but since I dont have pictures of me working on it, here's a few random pictures.