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I'll try to add another idea to the advice already put forward in regards to learning and practicing.
Transcribing is the single best thing you can ever do to improve your playing, by a fair margin.
Basically it means using your ears - not tabs, not you tube, not scale patterns, not chord shapes.
In its simplest form, it's putting on the radio and trying to work out by ear and by trial and error, how to play a particular song. In it's more advanced form, it's hearing something, then writing it down as notation. And there's a whole lot of space in between those two extremes.
The benefits as a player you'll get by doing this regularly are immense. Your fretboard knowledge, freedom, vocabulary, chops, everything, will improve - very quickly. I recall a story from my guitar teacher many years ago, he helped put Mike Stern (famous Jazz player) up in a hotel after a gig. After a 3hour set, finishing after midnight, Mike went back and transcribed sax lines (on his guitar) for hours. For a lot of those guys, it's all they do - gig, record, and transcribe.
Now obviously you don't need to fully immerse yourself in jazz to reap the benefits, but it's definitely a really powerful tool that you should utilise on a regular basis. 10mins a day, just be consistent.
Motivation is another aspect that can be tough. If you find you're losing interest, try to branch out. If learning thrash metal metal is exhausting your motivation, transcribe some Marley, maybe SRV, hell even Beyonce or a T.V soundtrack. Sometimes all you need is a pattern interrupt to get your motivation back.
Also don't be discouraged or worried if other people are learning at different rates, focus on your own playing and will work out
Transcribing is the single best thing you can ever do to improve your playing, by a fair margin.
Basically it means using your ears - not tabs, not you tube, not scale patterns, not chord shapes.
In its simplest form, it's putting on the radio and trying to work out by ear and by trial and error, how to play a particular song. In it's more advanced form, it's hearing something, then writing it down as notation. And there's a whole lot of space in between those two extremes.
The benefits as a player you'll get by doing this regularly are immense. Your fretboard knowledge, freedom, vocabulary, chops, everything, will improve - very quickly. I recall a story from my guitar teacher many years ago, he helped put Mike Stern (famous Jazz player) up in a hotel after a gig. After a 3hour set, finishing after midnight, Mike went back and transcribed sax lines (on his guitar) for hours. For a lot of those guys, it's all they do - gig, record, and transcribe.
Now obviously you don't need to fully immerse yourself in jazz to reap the benefits, but it's definitely a really powerful tool that you should utilise on a regular basis. 10mins a day, just be consistent.
Motivation is another aspect that can be tough. If you find you're losing interest, try to branch out. If learning thrash metal metal is exhausting your motivation, transcribe some Marley, maybe SRV, hell even Beyonce or a T.V soundtrack. Sometimes all you need is a pattern interrupt to get your motivation back.
Also don't be discouraged or worried if other people are learning at different rates, focus on your own playing and will work out