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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on March 23, 2019 at 3:54pm

Hi Tyler, first thing is to identify with a particular style of music, what do you listen to most what do you enjoy most. It will help with suggestions from others on here to know this.

The best way of course is to play with and learn from others in person, but that is not always possible. 

The "how to play" segments on this site could be all you need, at least you can ask questions here, bit harder on utube.

I have been helping a mate of mine to play and the hardest part for him is understanding the structure of the songs. Its one thing to learn 3 easy chords [and they are easy] the hard part for him is forming them into a song. He does not hear the chord changes, or hear the clues that they are about to change.

My son is completely different, show him something and he's got it and can play along with a song in no time. Different strokes for different folks.

Good luck Taff

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Durdan on March 23, 2019 at 4:43pm

Thank you both for such a fast response. I prefer the old delta blues stuff. I have a fretted and a fretless but would love to learn the fretless first. I am just more drawn to it than the fretted. A lot of the beginner stuff is on a fretted CBG. Should I follow that path and circle back when I am ready or just force the fretless slide that I am so fond of?
I feel like most of the fretless videos that I find are far too advanced for me right now.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on March 23, 2019 at 6:18pm

QUICK , EASY , FUNNY .  

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on March 27, 2019 at 7:38pm

He sure does have fun when he plays.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on March 28, 2019 at 6:22pm

yup he do. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on March 23, 2019 at 6:26pm

the 1-4-5 pattern is

 I open strum -  IV 5th fret strum -  V 7th fret strum.

This is call the quick change as you can see the chord changes on the second measure.

try and play the notes clean and slide up to the 5th and 7th.

each /  is a strum your now playing the blues. good luck Tyles

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on March 23, 2019 at 6:29pm

EASY  SLIDE ALSO

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Permalink Reply by Korrigan on March 24, 2019 at 9:55am

Absolute beginner? Spend the first few weeks just noodling around and making sounds that you find pleasing. : )

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on March 25, 2019 at 5:45am

Great advice Korrigan, just play... Don’t think too much. If I can learn to play delta blues on my own, by listening to records at age 16, then it’s not really that hard? I was advised by a veteran slider, to just play & I got better by just letting my fingers take over. no pressure, just play what your heart desires? you may want to peruse Shane & Glenn’s beginners videos in the Resources tab & take it slow?  Good luck to you

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Durdan on March 25, 2019 at 5:53am

Thanks BrianQ and Korrigan. I have been fooling around and making noise and I do enjoy it. I was just curious is there was a "road map" so to speak on things I should focus on in a particular order, to get a better understanding of the instrument and music. I will keep plucking away and hopefully make noises that sound closer to music at some point.

  

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Permalink Reply by Korrigan on March 25, 2019 at 11:14am

I don't know about you but for me, if I'm following a "road map" I'm probably not having fun... and if I'm not having fun doing something, and I'm not getting paid for it, I probably won't be doing it for long.  : )

That said, in no particular order, things to explore (YouTube is great for this)...

• Chords
• Scales
• Hammer-ons
• Pull-offs
• Capoing
• String bending
• Sliding notes
• Flat picking
• Finger picking
• ̶N̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶
• Natural harmonics
• Pinch Harmonics
• Muting
• Tapping
• Sliding (with a slide)
• Alternate tunings

Whatever you do... have fun!

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Durdan on March 25, 2019 at 11:29am

This is perfect! Thank you Korrigan. Now I know what to look for and have plenty to keep me busy learning the lingo and the techniques.

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