1) When changing a set of strings do them one at a time. This way you will prevent taking all the tension of the neck and avoid possible warping.
2) Never practice at high volume when your mother has a screaming headache. It might result in a brief career.
3) Practicing scales will improve speed. E seems to be the easiest.
4) Take it slow; if you don’t start off slow you might get off on the wrong foot. In the long run it helps make your performance cleaner and a lot less embarrasing.
5) Follow your guitar idol never become your guitar idol. Instead of that surpass them, try to be better then them. It sounds rude and disrespectful but without progress the guitar would would cease as we know it.
6) If your a looking for a guitar but can’t play well enough to figure out which one to get, ask a friend that can play or ask the dealer if he/she can test it out for you. Ask questions, lots of questions.
7) Never ever put duct tape on your guitar. Doing so will result in at least an hour of scraping off all that goo!
Live to play together. Get yourself aqquinted with other guitarist, it doens’t matter if you aren’t very good yet just ask to jam. Stop being so shy and get yourself in front of people.
9) God put a pinky and a thumb on you for a reason and no it’s not for sucking. Using to use both will help you to reach across the fretboard for easier access. The pink can help by extending chords (Dsus4 for ex.) and your thumb can add bass lines to the chord, a la Jimi Hendrix Chords. To master your pinky practice on A minor pentatonic (You can find one, actually a couple, in August 2004 GW featuring Randy Rhoads). Remember to practice slowly.
10) Attending a concert no matter what genre or size of stadium is highly recommended. You haven’t lived if you haven’t been to a concert. Pay close attention to the guitarist, see what he/she is doing. You can be like, “Oh, I’ve never seen anything like that.” and then try to figure out how they did it.
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