Dear halflife2.net guitar players, need tips

[McGooTheWise]

Trying to learn this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9d8n6T_USw

Any tips on barring or finger picking? I've almost got this down, but the barring and then clamping down on other frets while barring is ****ing me up.

 

[Hazar]

wait, so you're telling me you're not actually van halen?

anyways, it takes some time to build up the muscles in your fingers and hand to do bar chords well. But in the mean time, make sure you have light gauge strings on and maybe even tune your guitar down a half step to make the strings looser and therefore easier to press down.

 

[nipples]

Just practice barring over and over and over and over and over and over and over

 

[McGooTheWise]

But my wrist hurrrrrttttssssss....

 

[Dog--]

Man up, son.

Seriously that literally the only advice there is, if you can't do them on medium gauge strings, and in normal tuning, you can't do them. Just practise your ass off, remember to take a day off for hte muscles to rebuild, then when you go back at it, you'll be awesome at them.

As for fingerpicking, I recently decided to ditch the pick and just finger pick, it's alot better in some ways, alot worse in some, it, too, takes practise. I use the pick sometimes (like when I play shred kind of stuff), but mostly use me fingahs. It's cool looking, and is better for classical.


I just wanna add something: You will never, ever, NEVER EVER find an easy way out. There is nothing you can do to make ANYTHING on guitar faster to learn or anything - you just have to practise, that's all there is, nothing else, no magic potions or spells you can cast, you just have to practise, end of story.

 

[Hazar]

I just wanna add something: You will never, ever, NEVER EVER find an easy way out. There is nothing you can do to make ANYTHING on guitar faster to learn or anything - you just have to practice, that's all there is, nothing else, no magic potions or spells you can cast, you just have to practice, end of story.

tru dat.

 

[Dog--]

I spell it with an s, got a problem? Spellcheck doesn't, fool.

 

[Hazar]

that's because you're canadian D:

 

[nipples]

that's because you're gay D:

Fixed.

 

[Dog--]

Yea go and colour in your colouring books, and I'll go practise my guitar, and you can cash your cheques, and buy your favourite fibre cereal.

YES I KNOW THAT MADE NO SENSE BUT POINT IS CANADIAN SPELLING>>>>>>>>AMERICAN BULLSHIT.

 

[nipples]

You're silly.

 

[leib10]

Practice. It takes some amount of strength in your hands, fingers, and forearms to play guitar, and the only way to really do this is to experiment until you get it. Before long it becomes second nature.

 

[Dalamari]

What everyone else said, practice

No other way to do it. Best way I learned to nail barre chords better was to keep switching from open chords to barred chords, over and over and over.

Do it while you're watching tv or some shit, you'll get it eventually.