Disclaimer. Im pretty new to playing, mainly strumming open chords on accoustic, but I’ve just bought a G&l legacy and I’m getting a bit more adventurous and practicing a lot more than I ever have.
I’m trying to learn Books From Boxes, Maximo Park from some tab I’ve found on songster and I’ve got stuck at the pre chorus with chord fingering. I can’t find anything that seems comfortable or right for the x1333x bit onwards. Not sure how to post pictures or I’d put a screen grab of the bit of the tab where I’m stuck, but hopefully this will make sense to someone.
Any help hugely appreciated
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So this without the high e string? And the 3rd finger doing the 3 notes in a row on the 3rd fret.
Practice, practice, practice!
As Fuengi says time to practice practice practice
Started with G, Em, Cadd9 and D. Never thought I'd get D, but did eventually. It sort of went, hit it nicely 10% of the time, to 20% etc. Now, a few months later I hit it 99% of the time.
Then A caused me problems, but I now hit it 99%
Then C, which meant stretching over three frets. Again, never thought I'd get it, but now do about 90%
Then upstrumming took me a few months, but now I can't just do downstrum, I have to upstrum!
Then 'speed'. All these chords but needed to get that speed to make a tune. I started to work on many different combinations to see if I could get the majority to 60 per minute, then when I patted myself on the back when I achieved that (for most of my known chord combinations), I then read I should be hitting about 120 per minute! Nowhere near that, but have far exceeded 60 per minute for most.
Then did some finger picking - Chiquitita, City Of Stars, Jersey Girl, did ok, but found it boring.
Now looking at scales - I can't say it's the most exciting.
But those Barre chords are my key aim. Plus the fact I'm soon to buy my first electric, which probably scuppers all those things I've learned so far.
However, my one key strength is I now know this is practice. And then some. This not something I knew was so important before I started to learn guitar, but now I do. Keep going 1%, 5%, 10%, ..........