Hi, this video is from an influencer called 'Lizzieguitarstuff'
I watched it couple times but didn't understand what she is doing. Can you explain what she is doing in this solo?
I mean like "technically", how can we explain her movement in fretboard in music theory?
What scale, mod or key she is using?
I understand that she is changing her key note octave and play it on different fret location. but I don't understand what exactly she is doing. If I want to play same thing, (besides picking tech) what music theory concepts that I have to learn?
ps: Sorry if I explain it badly, did my best.
ps2: external urls: instagram post, tiktok post

I get that these are barres since you have 9 stacked on top of itself. But what are the arching lines indicating here exactly?

I’ve been playing for about 2 years and in that time I’ve never went more than a day or 2 without playing and that was only cause I couldn’t play if I went way for a couple days or something like that. Lately I’ve been feeling really unhappy with my playing since I hit my 2 year anniversary and I’m not where I thought I’d be at this point so I decided to take a week off and just reset a little bit. So today I picked it back up and somehow I’m playing faster and cleaner than ever and it just feels more natural and fluent. I’m so happy I felt like posting about it. Idk what the science is behind this phenomenon but I’m glad I took that week off!

Im trying to learn this song, and painfully get a hang of the first 4 shapes which are a grueling sequence of C#madd9 > Aadd9 > Badd9 > F#madd9.

How do you maintain strength in the 1st and 4th fingers when they’re stretched that far out with little support? Just feels like a bad position to press down there has to be a way everyone is doing it so seamlessly…

Are there exercises to maintain strength after snapping into those positions as fast as this song needs you to?

Put together a breakdown of why augmented chords create that unresolved, cinematic quality - covering the harmonic principle behind the sound rather than a theory lecture.

The whole thing comes from one interval: the major 3rd, stacked on itself twice. That symmetry is why the chord has no natural home note pulling it back down - it just hangs there, unresolved. Same shape logic works in both major and minor, and the mood shift between the two is significant.

The lesson covers three voicings in each flavor with written examples, an arpeggiated phrase showing how they connect into one continuous idea, and a second principle covering borrowed chords from the parallel key - how pulling one chord from B major or B minor into a progression creates that “shouldn’t belong here but does” moment that shows up in a lot of film scoring.

There’s a third piece covered in the free PDF - harmonic rhythm, how fast you move between chords changes the feeling as much as the chords themselves. Slow it down and it broods. Speed it up toward the V chord and it pulls forward instead of sitting static.

Full breakdown with the complete five-chord borrowed-key set and both augmented flavors in the free PDF.

Happy to answer any questions about the augmented shapes or how the borrowed chords connect in the comments.

What first got you interested in this kind of harmonic color?

https://guitar-woodshed.com/cinematic-guitar-chords/

When doing these three types of skills should I keep moving my fingers or try to make an anchored shape to play up and down? I understand for sweeps that i should be constantly moving but what about the other two?

Hey all,

after 15 years of playing, i finally want to be able to play the solos of the songs i like (mostly metal). So i looked a bit around, but i am completely overwhelmed by the amount of lessons, videos and excercices which explain how to shred. So has anyone some structured exercices which will help me get better at shredding? I am mostly looking for really fast alternate picking. I already tried the typical go slow and bump up 2 bpm...but at a certain point i cant hold up to the metronome anymore. :/ all the lessons tell, that you have to learn playing fast by playing fast, due to a complete different movement, your hand does, if you try to play fast. So does anyone of you have a structured plan with exercices to get me shredding (fast alternate picking)?

Thanks in advance!

Has anyone learned from scratch, or adapted their playing, while having hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome or hypermobility in your hand joints?

I’m generally known to not have a rhythmic bone in my body… I’m enjoying learning guitar and that’s what’s important, but I’m struggling and want to know if I can make my own life easier w/o spending $1000 on lessons.

My knuckles and joints collapse, a lot. I’m struggling to stretch across even 3 frets (like a C chord).

I’m barely able to strum a simple pattern and change chords at once. I don’t have rhythm to begin with and I know hEDS makes all that stuff and coordination harder.

Why I thought guitar would be easier than piano, I have no idea. Momentarily forgot that both require both hands, and an internalized sense of tempo 😂

I’ve considered trying a Hluru steel drum and seeing if percussion is more my thing, but I doubt it.

I know we’ve all gotta start somewhere, but I need some advice & community!

Hey,

as most beginners, I struggle with fucking F. Main reason is, that I have to move my wrist to the front in order to straighten my index finger.

When I look at those pictures, both positions look awful - but the G feels pretty good.

Can someone give any advise? I watched many F Major YouTube vids but I didnt find the key yet.

Thanks!

Intermediate player here, I was using Truefire for sone time and definitely found value in the sheer breadth of courses and video lessons it has, but i thought it had an absolutely horrendous user interface which made it difficult to learn on

What alternatives can people recommend that have structured theory lessons and span Rock, metal and blues?

This is a dumb question but whatever: What are these called and how do I do them? Thanks guys

I am going through some shitty times rn, so i have picked up my guitar after 5 months to help ease it out a bit. Looking for some poignant beginner to intermediate-ish songs, i like stuff like stay together for the kids by blink 182, where is my mind by pixies, also some heavier bands like periphery, killswitch engage, most of opeths discovery etc. Anything that is not insane shredding, basically i might be able to pull off. Thank you in advance for your replies.

For my first 5 months what I've been doing mostly is messing around against backing tracks in A minor. Specifically what this looks like is me playing with the pentatonic shapes that I've memorized; Im continuing to try to make my phrasing more concise, varied, and more of a call/answer. I guess this means Ive been trying to learn blues by ear alone. It seems like I've been humming not what I intend on playing, but what I've just played.

I don't have an instructor, the closest thing to a teacher I've had is yousician I guess. I'd love advice of any kind, but what is like to ask specifically is if there's a logical next step to what I'm doing (besides sitting there and trying to memorize the whole fretboard). Have my activities primed me especially for a next step?

so i recently picked up guitar roughly a month ago however i am having issues palm muting as i cant rotate or bend my forearm to get my palm in position i was wondering if there was a possibility of another way to mute the strings to get a chug effect (temp).
using the front face of my palm doesn't work as well either unfortunately since my palm is at a weird angle which has the rest of my hand pointing away from the strings so i can't lay it down flat.

its a long shot but hoping either way since i can pick i can play just this has been slightly annoying cause some of my fav songs use palm muting in the playing..

Hey, I like to create music using FL but I don't play or own a guitar. So in place, I just use guitar plugins but it doesn't really replicate that personality of the instrument sound. I'm kinda stuck and am looking to connect with someone to play some notes. Someone happy to lend a helping hand in the final results or bounce ideas off each other or just talk about music. Anybody skilled in recording and playing electric and acoustic guitar and using pedals.

I am considering subbing to LOG lessons as I hear it is good. My question is that if there is written material available or is it all videos? I have hard time gathering information from guitar videos and would prefer at least some images and text.

Made up this easy-ish arrangement of Hedwig’s Theme from the Harry Potter films for two guitars. Figured this would be a cool project to share around for Halloween. Enjoy!

Sorry, title should say my fretting hand is a big problem and it hurts

I feel a lot of pain in my hand when I play. I’m 6 foot two and have a basketball body, very long arms. I try to keep the guitar positioned at the center of my belly and I usually play standing up. I think my wrist position is off. I try to keep my thumb behind the neck right at the middle. Meanwhile, I see guys with their thumbs over the neck all the time and they sound great. So, my two big issues are the hand pain and really having a tough time playing Chords like F etc.

I try to get a good arc/curl with my fingers but my chords do not sound clean. Just need some advice on my fretting hand position. I think my troubles stem from how I’m holding the guitar. Any advice would be much appreciated.

I bought Tomo Fujita's Guitar Wisdom book and right now, it has helped me by a long shot. This was when I bought the book 2 years playing guitar.

My practice routine has been consistent, no day skipped w/o a day of practice. Because of all the things Mr Fujita has mentioned, like building a foundation before intricate things like solos, theory, and improvising It has been much more helpful to sit and do spiderwalks at decent tempo and hear myself improve every session I record, and I want to thank him for it.

Has this book ever helped you? If so, share some stories that made you look at the simple things on this instrument.

Spent about 2 hours on day 1 being able to do a 0-3-5-3-0 tune on 6th with standard E tuning on a Stratocaster I purchased, and day 2 I spent around 30 minutes messing about with things (doing the same thing over and over). Been using chatGPT to try and help me get things going and recommend apps, and explain concepts and other things. I’m still new to music overall and haven’t touched an instrument in over 10 years since my freshman year.

Im very good at picking up everything around the guitar, but actually doing something more than a symmetrical melody may as well be open heart surgery for me.

I’ve also never experienced my blood boiling so much before until I started using yousician for a brief stint, and now I’m staring at a paywall for Justin’s app and starting to question if guitar lessons are just a scam in practise

I do love learning new things but after spending money on this just to already mess up holding frets properly or transitioning between them on the same note makes me want to intrusively just snap it over my knee, since I can’t return it now.

Idk, maybe my mindset is just garbage for this or I wouldn’t be a good guitar student anyways. Either way I would appreciate if people shared their own stories starting very early on or something, I’m not exactly sure what I’m looking for in terms of a solid answer to help keep me on track.

is he down strumming with his index finger only here or is he using index+middle finger? I've been trying to figure this out for a while now and I'm leaning towards index in the intro, then index+ring afterwards... (gems in the rough version he's using a different attack so I don't really use that as a reference)

would love more opinions

I feel like I need a break, even if part of me doesn't want to take one. I just have hit a plateau I haven't gotten over and my coordination and everything is just off, in addition to me not being able to go more than 10 minutes trying to work on something and mistakes start piling up fast and frustration follows close behind.

Basically, I feel I'm about as good as I was on day 1. And I don't mean to come off as a wimp, but I feel burnt out and feel like I'm picking it up out of obligation to work on stuff given to me by my teacher. And even though we get on fine and I've objectively made progress, I hate falling short of my goals with him every single week we meet and having to explain my troubles. And, realistically speaking, I feel like I'll only ever be good at strumming basic open chords and nothing more.

Part of me feels like I need a break. But even though I'm less than a year in and don't have much if anything to show for all the time I put in, I don't want to accidentally screw myself by stopping now instead of somehow cultivating determination and patience and just try for a few more minutes.