I canāt perform anything. I play at home. Closest I come to performing is when I post up a song Iāve done on this forum. Ya can go look up a couple of songs Iāve done here and see what I do. Maybe search Kinkās holiday, helplessly hoping, dear prudence are a couple I think Iāve posted up here. Thereās a few more that are audio only too.
As for how long I learn. To me it seems never ending. I seem to always find something I donāt like so go try again. Iām learning. Iād guess in general it takes me a month + or - to get a song together. Depends on the song.
Well, perhaps thereās your song to start with. Is the song 20-30 sec. long? I donāt know that song off hand. If itās longer, keep on working on the parts you donāt do yet. Working towards the whole song.
While I do some noodlein, I donāt generally do much of it. I donāt find it leads me anywhere. While itās fun. Iāve not found it improves my playing much. Some maybe, but not like learning a whole song. Doing the whole song is what puts the structure to my practice. Noodling is just endless w/o start, w/o finish. It may give me some ideas, but not like trying to play a song.
Thatās where leaning a song comes in. Itās pointing you to finishing a song. Itās a goal. In the right direction.
We donāt know that. You donāt know that. Perhaps that is a goal for you? That said, Myself, I pick songs that I think I can likely do. Something that I think I may succeed in playing. I agree, there are some songs Iām not likely to learn to play so I donāt pick them song to learn. Iād think all thatād do for me would be to frustrate me to no end, never reaching the goal as the playing is above a level I can do. Maybe someday, one little step at a time, but I understand my limits of what I can and canāt do. Also understand that much music is āa bandā. When we play at home, we got no band, we sound out of context since thereās no band there to pick up the other parts. For me, this can be a distraction. It always has been. Practicing any part out of context sometimes just donāt sound so great. At least not to me. Put it in context, where the music all comes together and low and behold. Music. Not noise which is what my practicing by myself sounds like to me.
That may be a error. I had 25 years off of playing so when I got to JG I started at his first lesson, then went through ea one whether I thought I knew what he was talking about or not. I assure you, I learned some new ideas doing that.
Google is your friend when ya donāt understand something. Arpeggio explained from wikipida.
My guess is you can as if ya play a G chord, any note within the G scale will fit against the G chord.
Continue with JG lessons. Even go back a few lessons to be sure ya get it before moving forward to something unknown.
This is true. Iām thinking playing a guitar is a life long journey. Ya never can learn it all. Thereās always something that is to be learned. Also, slow is how you learn a specific few bars of music that you canāt do. Ya take them one note at a time, then 2, then three, etc. Ya just keep putting them notes together. There is much more to it than just playing the notes too.
As for your teachers saying learning so many things at once. That seems like it could be very overwhelming very fast. Ya just donāt have the chance to learn something well, and then move to the next exercise. As your learning too, you for sure look back on what you have learned. Incorporate that knowledge into what new thing your learning is. To me, itās kinda a building game. I keep building on what I already know.
Good luck Michal, the work is hard and long. But the rewards are big in the end. And I donāt even feel that I play, but I do feel the rewards of what Iāve learned. I just know Iām only seeing the top of the iceberg. For me, thereās a whole big iceberg underwater that I canāt see yet. In other words, the journey never ends I donāt think.
Hopefully, some one else will come by and give you different ideas other than what little I can think of.
I think this can be useful in future.
