Video Question: Online Guitar Lesson Help

July 23rd, 2007 - Sista Vee says: "I am not sure I understand how to start participating in lessons. I am unable to get the teaching videos to show. Still, from what I have been able to get into I have already answered by most pressing reason for joining here with Steve's instruction in strumming. I have gotten stuck strumming all of my songs with the same pattern and now I have a sure understanding of strumming and already hear remarkable differences in my playing in days. How do I actually get to participate now that my fees are paid?" Return to Video Q&A Listing


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Exercise for Dexterity - August 29th, 2007 (3 minutes, 25 seconds)

Dennydee asks "Is there any things I can do when I am not playing to keep my fingers moble. Or any exersizes I can do for more speed when I do play thanks ,Dennis." View Response

Callus - April 23rd, 2008 (1 minutes, 21 seconds)

Jdemail78 says, "I've been taking Steve's lessons for the past month and during the first week, my finger tips hurt each day I played but I kept on playing because I knew that eventually I'd build up callus on the ends of my fingers and the pain would go away. Sure enough, that happened for the most part but recently they've been starting to hurt again. Not as much when I'm done playing, more when I start playing. After I play for a little while, the pain goes away (like a numb sorta feeling) and then by the time I'm done, they are hurting again. I guess what I'm wondering is how long does this go on for? I can tell that I have callus on my fingers but some of the pain is still there. Does it ever go away completely or do you eventually just get used to it? Thanks." View Response

- July 11th, 2008 (3 minutes, 50 seconds)

Kenstyle asks, "What is proper protocol for playing eight notes or faster on the same string when using fingerstyle? are you supposed to develop "same-finger"speed with each individual finger? or should another finger sneak on to the string and do a two-fingered run? It seems i cant go much faster than quarter notes (obviously this depends on the tempo of a song) if i use only one finger, i.e. i can only use "upstrokes". Apologize in advance for my confusing question. This question might be appropriate for Steve or Jim D." View Response

Shifting Chords - April 11th, 2008 (2 minutes, 20 seconds)

Dsrinath_123 asks, "Hi Steve, this is srinath here, enjoying your basic lessons. I have started learning guitar a few months back before joining jamplay, i learned a few chords and while i was doing a chord shifting i used to hit all open strings in the last beat, this is how I learned (I dont want to mention from where i learned). To explain a bit more, let me put this way, I am strumming a 4/4 eight note strum( D U D U D U D U) and two chords Dmajor and Gmajor and when I am going to shift from Dmajor to Gmajor or vice versa, I would hit all open strings at the last note(U) , but in your lesson it seems that we have to shift after the last note, i want to know whether what i am doing now is correct or not, if not please provide me some exercise to correct it. I would be very glad if my question is answered by Steve Eulberg." View Response

- June 20th, 2008 (3 minutes, 30 seconds)

3jennijarre asks, "i just had a ? on amplification our band is good 2 go with guitar anps and bass amps but we were wondering what we should get for the singer because whatever we use seems just to get drownd out by the playing! i have bee nsnooping around and maurgurietes music and musitians friend.com but we dont know if we shoulg get a portable start up pa package or just a big guitar amp. would that work.???????? i know this is a hard topic but please help and give any info that you have thanks jarrett" View Response