114
I picked up my very first guitar! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/guitars@lemmy.world
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

It’s not much, but it’s mine!

I managed to get it clean, restrung and learned how to tune it. I’ve spent the last couple weeks just practicing the chromatic scale and just started learning some basic chords yesterday.

I started with the trumpet in high school and then went on to do digital music production as a hobby for ten years and even managed to produce my own album.

I realized a lot of the tracks on my album had guitar elements and it dawned on me that I could eventually work to make those my own actual recordings rather than synthesized.

So I’m already familiar with the slow burn process of learning a new instrument and I’m already seeing massive progress from the first time I picked it up. Here’s to the next decade of learning a new instrument!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 1 point 1 month ago

Strat was also my starting point. Good guitats.

I am just going to dump a small list of things you may find useful.

I assume you are quite familiar with standard music notation. You probably found out that guitarists use mostly tabs for this. If you want to practice an existing song, they are decent resource, unless you find a better tutorial, or playthrough done by original artist. There are various sources to look for them, but Songsterr, Youtube and UltimateGuitar usually come up as top results. They are usually good, but can be off.

Btw, don't get too attached to the strings. They will corrode and require replacing eventually. Especially if your hands are sweaty. Some oil and cleaning can help.

Also new strings may get out of tune at first. You can grab each one and gently pull it away from the fretboard (and slightly shake) a few times to stretch it out.

Things that can show up after long term use and how to fix them (informative, not to scare you):

(* - best done by someone else if you lack the skill and confidence)

  • 6.5mm jack - if the contact gets loose take it out and bend the contacts back into place
  • nut - mechanical wear caused by tuning, affects string height/action, can be helped by marking the grooves with graphite pencil - reduces friction, eventually requires replacement (*)
  • tuning pegs - screws on them may get a bit loose, just tighten it, but not so much that the pegs are hard to turn
  • the frets - mechanical wear, especially when often playing bends/vibrato, replacement (*)
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •