Well this will be a short post based on my current experiences on starting to play again after not playing for 5 years... Everything has been difficult and also different on this new starting for me, basically I lost all my stretching on both hands, all my strength and timing specially on the neck hand, and it has been a very hard journey to get back to the playing level I had before stopping playing. I will leave two important advices for beginners and pretty much for everyone. 1 - Before starting any practice session take at least 5 minutes to warm up your hands, you can find plenty of warming up exercises on the web, or you can build your own ones is very important to have your wrists, hands and fingers ready before starting to play anything that may require fast movements of your fingers or of your wrist and picking hand. 2 - Know when to stop, It just happened to me a few minutes ago that I was playing the song Creeping Death by Metallica using a backing track at full speed (205bps) and also playing standing, I was only thinking about playing the song again like I used to play it 5 years ago and I didn't pay attention to the pressure I was doing on my wrists and fingers and after playing it like 3 times on a row I stopped with a strong pain on my left hand due to the force I was putting on placing my finger correctly behind the neck and also a small pain on the wrist of my picking hand due to the speed and endurance required to play the whole song without stopping. So my advice is that even if you see the song, riff or solo you want to play close to be played in the way you want to do it always remember to not force your hands to reach a goal that you may be able to reach tomorrow and take the risk to suffer an injury that will keep you away from playing for weeks, months or even worse. Take care of yourself and happy playing. Alex.

More like learning to look at your playing. This is my rock. We exist within the realms of our comfortability... No one is telling us to suck... Or stop trying.. or even making false claims like - you'll never be able to play like them... Everyone in this space will tell you without the shadow of a doubt in their mind that you can do it, you can be great on the guitar... But if we know that already and have gotten here through repetitive efforts - where else can we go? Why aren't we growing? "I don't want to play everyone else's music. I want to be awesome whenever I want to and I want it to come from my heart". We want spontaneous and effortless, flow-style playing... We want to allow our greatness to shine through our guitar strings. Emotional expression at our fingertips ya know? Ya feel what I'm saying? There is something special about having to wait for something. In fact some of the best things we've ever witnessed or that have ever taken place, had to be waited for. Guitar is no different and yet we treat it like a pipe dream when it comes right down to it. I know I've been there. I am an Intermediate Guitar player and have hit many plateaus. Wait we shall lol want to or not 🫩😅 So - what lessons are we not paying attention to? What could we do more of that will help us? What has actually helped us in the past? How do I identify where I am on the fretboard at any instance? And lastly what do I want to play or... What can I hear and tune in to, to share with everyone right now. These are the questions that will ultimately lead to growth. From guitar playing to real life similarities. How we're doing it and what we're asking ourselves. My rock, that I will die on... Is this It's your perspective that you're using, so make sure that you have one when it comes to approaching your fretboard. Meaning: When we put your fingers down on the fret board we should know what chord shapes exist right where we are. We can achieve a better playing ability when we ourselves hold the map to our fretboard.

(Post to be finished soon... I still have to record and post the two videos playing and explaining the riff, unfortunately due to an small injury I will not be able to post the videos today, my apologies for the delay). Hello everyone, today (with the permission of the administrators) I will bring you the "Riff of the week". The riff belongs to the song Creeping Death by Metallica that is included on the band second album "Ride the Lightning" recorded on 1983, as a little background story Creeping Death is Metallica second most played song live (after Master of Puppets) and the riff we will be learning is one of the most iconic riffs of the band, this riff was written by Kirk Hammet (Metallica lead guitar) when he was only 16 years old, is what we may name a "bridge riff" and is played right after the end of the song main solo. This lesson will include the riff guitar tabs, an mp3 cut from the original song of this riff and also an mp3 cut of the isolated guitar version of the riff too. Also I will record two videos playing and explaining the riff part by part. A few tips for beginners: 1 - To play this riff using an electric guitar you don't need to sound exactly like Metallica, a distortion with a high gain is enough, also you can even play it on an acoustic guitar too. 2 - Metallica style during those years was pure thrash metal that means that all the picking will be downward all the time (that is something that remains through all the rhythm riffs of the song). 3 - I will be working on this post during the day so this will not be the final version of the post. 4 - Don't hesitate to send me a pm if you have any questions that may not be included on the post. 5 - This is not the main riff of the song I choose it because is not as difficult as the main riff, however if this post has a good reception I will make a post of the main riff next week. Let's start by posting the riff cut from the original song and also the same riff but with only the guitars without the voice.

Hi all, I decided that my challenge for this week will be to improve my endurance and hands position playing standing. Current songs that I'm using to practice are: Symphony of Destruction, Anarchy in the UK and Tornado of Souls by Megadeth and Creeping Death, Master of Puppets, Breakfan and Seek and Destroy by Metallica, and Layla (the live version on the MSG on 1992) from Eric Clapton. Also improving and correcting my hands positioning using the outro solo of Fade to Black and Symphony of Destruction. (I have tabs and useful advices for all the songs I mentioned above if anyone is interested)

Also "The Capo" what the??? Welcome to another 🎶🎼 head hangs lowly, child is slowly takon... Wait 🫷🏽 no lol... Welcome to another "song tutorial" by yours truly. This one goes out to anyone and everyone, but especially those who wonder about the capo and its importance. I dive into the chords for this song and discuss the logic behind using the capo to make your guitar sound the way you need it for singing along in your voice. We're introducing and using 4 chords. Em, C, G, D. The chords are not an exact match and neither are the lyrics. The important part of this tutorial is how to play this song in a way that sounds right for you and gets you excited to try playing it again, and again. Please let me know that this video landed for you by approaching me in the comments 🙃😜 tag me or whatever you gotta do to get my attention and let me know if this bit rocked for you!