help me to learn music

[turke]

I'll start learning electric guitar soon. I played bass for 4 years now. I want to switch. But I lack sources. As you can see, I am a prog. fan and want to move that way. I like Petrucci, Romeo, Satriani, M. Coenen, Forte and alikes... So what dvd's or books should I buy. Please make suggestions thinking of my taste. Cause I am a "fast getting bored" person. I mean I dont want to drop of my guitar so quickly..
Thank you from now...

 

[turke]

Did i say someyhing wrong ? Still waiting for suggestions...

 

[Kronikle66]

Um, first off, there's a sub forum here specifically for musicians. You might have better results there. Second, you waited less than an hour for a response. These aren't battle.net forums. It might take several hours for a response from someone qualified to give one.

Anyway, in answer to your question, I'd suggest you go online and learn the basics of guitar playing. There are several really good free sites. In addition, I heard Michael Angelo Batio's Guitar Video was nifty. If you want to see something to aspire to, get Michael Romeo's "The Guitar Chapter". Don't expect to be able to play like him, but it might keep you motivated to give you something to work towards.

-Kronikle

 

[MC Pee pants]

dude, he waited three days and an hour not just an hour, anyway... besides "the guitar chapter", which you may want to look at after becoming a little more proficient otherwise you may just go back to bass, is "rock discipline" by john petrucci. It goes into a little more basic stuff and any starting book is good to get you off the ground chord wise. I'm sure also that if you posted this in the musicians corner they would also tell you to get a teacher, which I would also strongly recommend. They provide more than a book ever could, and are an invaluble recource when learning a new instrument in learning correct technique and other things.

 

[Kronikle66]

Oops. Didn't look at the date. My bad

-Kronikle

 

[ElPredicador]

I'm probably going to be burned alive for this, but here I go: Don't ever get a metal teacher. He will only teach you how to play fast (nothing wrong with this, but this you can learn on your own). Get instead a jazz teacher. He will teach you stuff that doesn't appear on free courses (theory, improvisation, harmony, among others).


Now, before you kill me (I know a couple around here are guitarists and teach, so in case you get offended by this), I know this aren't all metal teachers, but, as far as my experience goes, the vast majority only know how to play fast, so it is not an easy task to find one who knows other stuff too.

 

[karelrulez]

I have had a strictly classical teacher for a year, but he had to quit teaching me because he had to travel too far to give me lessons every week. But thanks to him I have good basics for my technique. Now I have a really good poprock kinda teacher, but we do all kinds of stuff like technique, fingerpicking, full songs I want to learn to play (I just bring stuff like Opeth, DT's acoustic stuff), and just a lot of improvising and scales etc. I don't necessarily need to learn how to do mad riffs and crazy metal solo's, that stuff comes later when I'm very good at playing an acoustic. I think that's the best to begin with.

 

[Metal Immortal]

When I listen to Micheal Romeo, I know I'll never be as good, but I can come close. I play scales over and over and over and over and over and over again until my finger bleeds, then I do it somewhere else with a different scale. Alternate picking and such things are good to know. Scales will kep you busy for years if you truely want to be a master. Of course... I have only been playing for about a year myself, so I'm not really the one to ask. I know you didn't ask me, so that last sentance was meaningless. Well, that's all I have to say. When I start analyzing my own words as I write them, and type waht I think about them, I know I've gone too far. Sorry to waste your time.

 

[turke]

When I listen to Micheal Romeo, I know I'll never be as good, but I can come close. I play scales over and over and over and over and over and over again until my finger bleeds, then I do it somewhere else with a different scale. Alternate picking and such things are good to know. Scales will kep you busy for years if you truely want to be a master. Of course... I have only been playing for about a year myself, so I'm not really the one to ask. I know you didn't ask me, so that last sentance was meaningless. Well, that's all I have to say. When I start analyzing my own words as I write them, and type waht I think about them, I know I've gone too far. Sorry to waste your time.

I dont think you're wasted my time, just the opposite I think I should listen to you cause you're one year ahead of me so you can understand me better.
Thanks everyone for their support. And sorry for the misplacement of the post...

 

[control-denied777]

petrucci's instructional dvd is awesome if u practice the way he suggests+if u wanna learn sweeping and shred things buy rusty cooly's chred manifesto

 

[weenur]

If you really want to know music, you should probably go to school. Guitar is relatively easy to learn. Learning how to be musical with it isn't as easy. I've been playing for <gulp!> 20 years and I still know I have a lot to learn. I don't practice near as much as I used to, nor do I practice sight-reading or theory, so I would encourage you not to do as I do.

http://www.musictheory.net/

 

[control-denied777]

If you really want to know music, you should probably go to school. Guitar is relatively easy to learn. Learning how to be musical with it isn't as easy. I've been playing for <gulp!> 20 years and I still know I have a lot to learn. I don't practice near as much as I used to, nor do I practice sight-reading or theory, so I would encourage you not to do as I do.

http://www.musictheory.net/

i totally agree with u!music theory classes is the most important thing for a musician