What are you learning?

[Lawrence]

Trying to learn the 20 seconds or so of Cliffs of Dover that I've never quite nailed.

Same goes for about 20 seconds of Love of God that keeps defeating me.

Also trying to learn Trademark. That song is deceptively difficult in places.

Kudos!

[willow13]

I'm just trying to get the skin on my finger to harden up again so it doesn't hurt

I don't usually learn songs anymore so I have been working on a few riffs, although I am trying to learn Tyrants by Immortal....that right hand stuff is proving tougher than I thought it would

[calling card]

Recycling stuff I've learnt and forgotten in the past. Very slow work in progress with Hendrix purple haze and voodoo child. I chip away things for years...

[codedog]

I'm learning to create stuff with my new keyboard... I gave up on learning other peoples music a long time ago, I just find it frustrating, not just from a technical standpoint but also from an emotional one, I just can't get into playing something that someone else has created, it never brings the feels from playing it like you get from listening to the original, but if you come up with your own stuff you can zone out and enjoy being in the moment....

So glad to hear someone else put this down into words! I'm in exactly the same situation! I find some enjoyment in learning from tabs and watching performances closely on Youtube, but only to steal the ideas. Unfortunately learning to create stuff is quite slow going since I have rather slim understanding of music.

[hamo]

Barracuda
Heartbreaker
Material Girl

Covers band...

Ooooh, Barracuda!

[hamo]

What are you learning at the moment?

All the words to all the Hairy MacLairy books.

These aren't too bad.. wait til you get to the cat n the hat series I want some of what Dr. Seuss was on..

Yeah, I do find HM to be among the less painful reads. Try reading Dora The Explorer books - also seem to be written by someone with a drug habit, but not a cool one like Dr Seuss (which we're also into, courtesy of my older girl).

[jeremyb]

I'm learning to create stuff with my new keyboard... I gave up on learning other peoples music a long time ago, I just find it frustrating, not just from a technical standpoint but also from an emotional one, I just can't get into playing something that someone else has created, it never brings the feels from playing it like you get from listening to the original, but if you come up with your own stuff you can zone out and enjoy being in the moment....

So glad to hear someone else put this down into words! I'm in exactly the same situation! I find some enjoyment in learning from tabs and watching performances closely on Youtube, but only to steal the ideas. Unfortunately learning to create stuff is quite slow going since I have rather slim understanding of music.

Collaboration is the key, in my band we all bring ideas along and they often turn into songs, on my own it's way harder, easy to get a cool riff or something, but turning it into a whole song is hard for sure!!

[calling card]

Practiced some tele slide craft last night, tinnitus has upped it's volume this morning.

[Clanger]

Dust In The Wind - Kansas. Getting used to travis picking is harder than I thought.

[Slowy]

Dust In The Wind - Kansas. Getting used to travis picking is harder than I thought.

Once you get that sorted, have a go at the 'rite of passage' A minor clawhammer tune.
Can't get a better teacher than the Grand Master himself

[tubeswell]

Mississippi John Hurt tunes are good for learning claw picking too.

[stratkiwi]

Deep purple: Burn and smoke on the water
Ted Nugent: Cat scratch fever
also learning some stuff by the misfits their stuff is pretty basic but excessively catchy and no guitar solos to worry about

[dayl]

Im learning how to play an 8 string. Even with all the time spent on 7's, it's still much harder than I anticipated. I'm way way out of practice though. I guess I'll just djent djent djent djent to compensate for my lack of skill.

[sty]

I knackered my shoulders at the end of the ski season so I'm got numbness in my first finger of my fretting hand, also get tired shoulders so can't play for too long at the moment, although hopefully things will get back to normal shortly. I'm still trying to learn stuff though.


Fortunate Son - loved it in Suicide Squad and found a standard tuning lesson
Wrathchild - Still trying to nail that fast riff when I get a session.

Fancy trying to learn some Classic Alice Cooper (Cold Ethyl seemed good, and Elected) and some Thin Lizzy (had started with Jailbreak a while back), might chase down some backing tracks.

[willow13]

trying to "learn" how to drum to one of my songs. it shifts from 5/4 to 9/8 to 4/4 then repeat .... its really fucking with my VERY basic drumming brain