begginer guitar player

hi i'm raed ,17 years old , I've started plying guitar for about a year now and I wanted to know ,in what level I should be now , and if I'm above or below it ! :thumbsup: I've made a little thing (in about 5min :P )

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so what do you think ??:whistling:

Uh...There isn't a defined level you should be at at 17, nor one after a year of playing.

I know it isn't an "exact science " but I wanted to know if I was progressing too slow or fast enough... and if there are any remarkable mistakes in the impro !

level ? ...

That's depends from you and your teacher, also on the place you live in, is not the same being in Paris that theresnothingherevillefield....

I guess one year should be enough to play something that "sounds ok" but doesn't have any professional content, I mean no matter if you paly something very easy, but if you play it right then you're in good way....

Also learning must be an acceleration procees, you have to develop more the next year that you did the past year, I could say that threefold at least ....

How are you learning? tabs?

Things I noticed --

Watch your counting, unless you were going for a more free idea.

Try playing with other chord types -- it felt like you were just planing the same chord along the fretboard.

In all truth, timing and tightness of technique are the big issues I heard... Practice basic stuff like these:

Strumming hand drills:

on one string: 4x quarter note, 6x eighth note triplet, 8x eighth note, 12x 16th not triplet, 16x 16th notes. Work this with a metronome at all speeds, starting slowly.

ditto for multiple strings - this will also work cross-rhythm counting by having you start your count on a different string.

Fingering hand:

Of course, work all chord positions and all that, but also I wanted to hear some melodic stuff. For that, work at stretching your hands and your scales.

Of course, you can combine the left- and right-hand drills.

level ? ...

I guess one year should be enough to play something that "sounds ok" but doesn't have any professional content, I mean no matter if you paly something very easy, but if you play it right then you're in good way....

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I can play cleanly "sweet dreams "(marlyne manson) , "smoke on water" (deep purple) ,the intro of "nothing else matters" (metallica) ... and stuff like that !

How are you learning? tabs?

I started learning with tabs , but for the last 3 months I've switched to partition or music sheet (I don't really know how to say it, I'm frensh educated :p ) but now I think I can read it fluently.

Things I noticed --

Try playing with other chord types -- it felt like you were just planing the same chord along the fretboard.

In all truth, timing and tightness of technique are the big issues I heard.....

I've tried to make it more...."colorful" ! ,but I couldn't fined a nice harmonic chords , if you have any nice (even not that easy ;) ) please post them and I will try do practice them!

I know that timing is a bit of an issues , but I have improved a lot sins I've made the record!

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and I didn't really get the "Strumming hand drills" if you have it recorded ,or in tab or partition ... it would really help

than'x

Yes, that is very wise to start playing and reading actual notes, it will get you much farther in life. It's pefectly fine if you start out on tabs, but once you develop the concept of guitar fingerings you should switch to sheet music. That makes me really happy to see that because I know a lot of really talented guitar players yet they can only read tabs, which limits their potential greatly. Good luck, stick with it, and have fun! Hope to see more from you in the future! :)

Honestly, the songs you listed for a year isn't that special. So I guess below. But it doesn't matter in my opinion. Nor does my opinion matter.

I've tried to make a 1st compo ! with an acoustic guitar (nylon ) and an acoustic bass ! some of the members of young composers have helped me with advices and stuff , so than'x ;)

tell me your honest opinion ;)

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In general I liked what you were trying to do, though it felt pretty empty. I liked the chord progressions. You should build on this more, when you started in measure 18 I started to get interested but then the song ends abruptly. Build more on it, separate it into phrases and work on the transitions.

ok , I'm working on it , than'x , I'll upload it as soon as i get it done

sorry for the delay ! :$ I've been in vacation :p

so here it is

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1)To much of the same

2)Oddly at the same time not very consistent.

3)In other words, transitions are your friends

4)You might actually want to think of a goal fore a piece of music before you start jolting notes, are at the very least, once you have a minute of music written, have a defined place you want to go with it. Otherwise, you tend to write what sounds nice as opposed to what fits nicely.