Hi, Max!
A teacher is always a great plus. Good instruction books, manuals, etc.,
are a great plus. Those things can speed up the rate of your progress as
a musician. As recommendation, I'd tell you to get to know the fretboard
of
the guitar. Memorize what the notes are; i.e., as a developmental goal,
seek to be able to play a note at random, and quickly be able to answer
what the name of the note you just played was.
One way to begin this task, is to play only notes within the C major
scale,
up each string. Memorize what the note name is at each of the locations.
After doing this a while, you'll begin to see patterns of placement over
the set of strings. (When just starting to do this, I actually went so far
as to create string/fret graphs, showing the placement of the notes.) But,
charting the notes & strings only takes you so far; the reality, is that
to
learn to play well, you need to memorize the fretboard with guitar in hand
and develop "muscle memory" of what is where and how far you need to reach
to get what you're after; i.e., kinesthetic awareness.
Another approach to this task, is to start with something like a C major
chord (C,E,G). Find a series of those 3 notes on your fretboard. Play them
in sequence. Examine your fretboard, seeking all the C's, E's, & G's;
finding the places where you can play {C,E,G) in sequence without other
C's, E's, & G's being in-between. (NOTE: Every (C,E,G) sequence on the
fretboard, will have a C as its lowest pitched note - therefore, knowing
where the C's are, you have an effort-cutting method for finding the
(C,E,G) sequences.) Do the same for an F major chord (F,A,C), and G major
chord (G,B,D). Knowing those 3 chords is a good foundation for doing some
"12-bar blues". By the time you've found all these 3-note sequences,
you'll
have noticed patterns of placement that fit the major chord. Those
patterns
fit any major chord; it's just a question of where you put them. The same
procedure works for minor chords, also. And, 7th chords, etc.
Now that I've thrown out 2 or 3 cents in a place where nobody knows me,
I'll finish by saying I wish you the best of luck in your musical
endeavors.
Scruffy
http://scruffyeagle.com
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