Having watched the lesson on setting your long term goal, I got thinking about what I really wanted long term from my guitar playing. I would love any tips, comments etc on the plan.
Long term goal – Play instrumental covers of songs I love to my own backing track. 50’ 60’s and show tunes
Steps:-
Rhythm guitar
Strumming
Accurate chords that are needed for the song. Open, Power and Barre
DAW
Backing track
Midi track – instruments
Drum track
Backing vocals – real (with auto tune) or plug in.
Enhancing the track – Plug ins etc
Lead Guitar
Individual notes – correct frets and strings – fast scales, rifts
I like your goal. I’ve learned over many efforts that writing down one’s goals is the first and an important step in reaching them. Another important step is to make them as specific as possible. Here’s to reaching your goal!!!
I agree it’s good to have a plan. It’s also a good idea to have some idea of the process you might go through to tick off each of the items, something you can measure progress against. When it’s quite a big plan it can be easy to think that you’re not getting closer to the end goal if you don’t have some landmarks along the way.
Also keep checking in along the way and ask yourself questions like are you enjoying the process or not. Don’t be welded to your goal if you start to lose the love for it, consider a side road for a while.
I thought that my goal was to learn to play metal guitar, it’s the music I love after all. What I’ve found over the past year is actually prefer playing my acoustic guitar so that’s the path I’m on. I have a few songs that I’m learning and will see what follows. Maybe someday I’ll work my towards playing metal lead guitar but not right now.
I use https://moises.ai/ now to take the original song and change the mix of the vocals, bass, drums or guitars and slow it down, loop or see the chords or the lyrics. It is amazing.
Hi @danweeks11 , thank you for that, I will have a look. That sounds interesting.
For the moment using different ways of having a backing track works well for me. It means I can leave making my own until a lot later down the line. It is something I think I want to do later though, just for the interest in how they are made. I can use Reaper at a very basic level.
What I think I will do first, is to take an existing backing track from either moises or the karaoke site and just replace one or two of the individual parts with ones of my own. This will gradually build up my confidence in building the tracks.
This is a way off at the moment though as my first concentration is on improving my rhythm techniques
Really, really late to this thread…
But I think your goals are very do-able! You’ve shown a lot of “stick with it” in your previous posts! Just keep playing/practicing & you can get to wherever you want to be!
I think you have lots of potential inside… keep at it & let your creativity out!
Good luck my fellow Justinian!!!
I really enjoy Country & Bluegrass!!!
Bluegrass - one of my “Ultra-Longterm” goals is to add mandolin & banjo to guitar & record my own Bluegrass music!
Not sure if that’ll ever happen but I do have an F~style Epiphone mandolin that I plink around on every so often!!!
