Andy 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴OK #music people of mastodon, particularly #guitarist people. I'm quite happy and confident playing chord based songs on my acoustic guitar. However, a while ago I got a Epiphone Les Paul electric... And I'm just struggling to play. I totally lack confidence which means I'm just not practicing. It's a bit of a vicious cycle. Any tip, song suggestions or anything else? I love rock and indie music mostly. I have distortion and overdrive pedals too if that helps with advice.
Mykie Frankenstein 🎃🦇🕸️@vespasianvs I have a few instruments i'm trying to learn at the moment. I'm having good luck by recording some chords to a loop and improvising over that loop. The discipline of actually sitting down to do it is the hard part, though
@mykie I think that's my main problem. Playing acoustic I find comforting and relaxing. I hear a song I like and can usually work it out fairly quickly. The electric is just different. I guess one thing I need to get into my head is just because they are both guitars, they are very different and it's essentially like starting again. I think I almost expected to pick up the electric and start bashing out guitar solos.
@mykie I do actually have a loop pedal as well though, so I can do as you suggested. I think I might need to spend a bit of time slowing down and learning the basics of the instrument instead of trying to crack on learning guitar solos essentially by rote.
@vespasianvs When I do my loop practice I approach it with "what do I know how to do?" in the case of my lap steel, it's major and minor chords. So I try to fit a little bit of everything I can do in a loop. It's been really helpful for familiarizing myself with the instrument. And then I just try and do a little bit more every time.
But I'm also stubborn and spite motivated so I don't know how well that works for others.
@mykie I think I might just have a bit of a play with each scale with the relative scale as backing chords.