alex_riv2d ago

What songs helped you break through a playing plateau?

https://lemmy.org/post/4847214

What songs helped you break through a playing plateau? - Lemmy.org

I’ve been playing for about 3 years and hit a wall recently. Felt like I was just cycling through the same songs and chord shapes. What finally helped was deliberately picking songs slightly above my comfort zone — stuff with unexpected chord changes or rhythms I hadn’t tried before. For me it was “Blackbird” (the fingerpicking pattern forced me to think differently) and “Jolene” (that tempo is deceptively tricky). I’ve been using chordroom.com [https://chordroom.com/] lately to browse through songs by difficulty and it’s been solid for finding charts that are actually readable. Their library is massive (260k+ songs) and it’s free without the paywall nonsense. What songs pushed you to the next level? Always looking for new challenges.

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There was a point where I felt I was a pretty solid player generally, but I ended up asking myself "How can you have been playing all these years and still not play any shreddy solos. I committed to learning the Crazy Train solo with a similar mindset of just trying something that was out of my current skill level. Super fun, and 100% a skill up situation.

Earlier on, learning ‘Romance’ was a big skill jump for sure, if you’re into classical guitar at all.

Picking up some AC/DC songs was pretty great too. At that point I was an avid blues listener but not player, as I had picked up guitar mostly to play metal. AC/DC did well to bridge the gap between harder music and its roots in blues.

Speaking of metal, just pick a Pantera song. There’s a good chance that Dime will have you doing new things.

Blackbird was a great call out. I find that a lot of Beatles jams are more complex to play than they sound, so I’ll also promote more of that. There’s a complete scores book that’s pretty solid, it’s a bit pricey but also not hard to find in PDF format.

Mar 27 at 5:26amWeb