Guitar Question?

Question

I'm learning to play the guitar. If I practice around an hour a day. How long would it take me to get really good? I'm talking about being able to play dragon force and canon rock.

Answer 1

takes days to learn years to master

Answer 2

Dont listen to the people that say you need to practice more than an hour. They dont know what they are talking about. I've been playing for around four years and over the summer breaks I practiced about 3-4 hours a day, once I even did about 10-11 hours of practice. During the school year, however, I rarely get to play unless its on the weekends, which i practice for around 2-3 hours a day. You have to know how to practice, and if you can master practicing you can master the guitar. If you know how to practice the right way, you can get things done in 20 minutes in what other people might take 5 hours to get. Though, you must be patient with the guitar, its a complicated instrument and it only gets more complicated. Take your time, dont give up, and you will be fine. As for the dragon force and canon rock, I reccomend you trying to play them, just try. You wont get it right away, and you will learn how hard those songs actually are. For now, work on your chords and rhythm patterns, and while your at it start doing hamer-ons and pull-offs for 20 minutes a day. This is what I did for about 3 and a half years, songs with shredding dont bother me anymore because I can get it mastered.

Answer 3

Ahh...the age old question. Learning to play the guitar is just like learning how to do anything else. If you WANT to learn, it shouldn't be hard. If it becomes hard you might not really want it. I am not saying it wont be frustrating at times...the only way to get better is to practice practice practice. I try to practice every day. Sometimes I will play for hours..sometimes I just go through 4 or 5 scales up and down the neck and quit. If it gets boring try something else...just play

Answer 4

An hour a day isn't good enough to get your callises to harden up (the skin on the tips of your fingers). I've been playing for almost 2 years or so, and I've been playing for 3 hours everyday. You could say I'm a natural at it, but looking at me, I'm not even CLOSE to being Jimmy Hendrix.

For Canon Rock, you'll have to know how to do sweeps, and pick-ups and all that junk. Looking at you, you seem to just be starting. Take it easy, start doing easy, one string songs.

Practice a lot and you'll get good!

Answer 5

I am learning cannon rock right now, to be honest it depends which techniques you practice, Cannon rock involves preatty basic but fast chord changes, and arpeggio sweeps (progressive indervidual note playing but with speed)
ummm, to get that fluent will take a while, to start with just learn some stuff you can play comfortably, and then more complex stuff. I have 10 years exp, but i play because I want to, its not being the best that motivates, but wanting to play good music. For practice go for 12 bar blues, also there is a freeware program called EasyScale google it!! learn the E minor scale (Rock scale) also used in blues!!, this will provide a great foundation for harder stuff, also watch Yingwie Malmsteen, just try using the right hand as right as you can, and then try and get your left hand to keep up with a simple pattern, he plays in triplets, for me this has become v natural, but it depends on the player. All I know good luck!!! and God bless. P.S Use the Cannon rock tab from UG ultimateguitar.com if you have guitar pro use it, cos the tab is 95% accurate which means you can learn teh tab version and alter it to fit the cannon style, I know its this accurate cos I ran Cannon rock on VLC player and Guitar pro symultaneously. : ))

Answer 6

:) I love your enthusiasm! It depends on the person though. There's no way to say. Do you have natural talent? Is it coming easy to you? You may hit a block in your learning later on. Just keep at it and don't give up and you'll get there!! I started playing when I was 9. I didn't play for 3 years when i was a teenager and now I'm 24 and I play all the time. I could be alot better if I put more time into it though! Thanks for the inspiration! Good luck!

Answer 7

all depends on what and how you practice, but one hour every day id say you can play canon rock in a few months...its not that hard. Actually when i first got my guitar i practiced for 5 hours for 3 days and i could play banana pancakes by jack johnson pretty good

Answer 8

The more you practice the better you will get. Don't listen to these people. "Good" is in the eye of the beholder. If you force yourself to practice too much, you may lose interest. I would say if you learn your power chords, you can start playing a lot of songs. Power chords are very hard in the beginning, but once you nail them you can play a lot.

Answer 9

Well,
if this helps at all,
I've been playing for exactly three weeks,
I practice for 1/2 hour to 1 hour a day,
I know about 8 chords,
I can play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb', 'Edelweiss' and 'Killing Me Softly'
I can play the riffs from 'Satisfaction' and 'Smoke on the Water'.
I'm working on scales and can play them in the key of C.

I don't know how I compare to other guitarists, and it depends on which kind of guitar you're playing, but I guess I give you something to compare yourself to.
I play Classic Spanish Acoustic, by the way.
And I'm teaching myself using the internet and books.
I'm learning so that I can play Queen and Beatles songs.
=]

Answer 10

Well are you learning on your own?You know the basics of solfegio and playing tehnique I guess?If yes,I think you could do with at least 90min dailly.Guess that if you focus on the song and practice it part by part you'll be able to play it whole in a bit slower tempo after less than two weeks.

Answer 11

Anybody posting exact times in terms of months, years or weeks is wrong. It depends on your passion, if your passionate and dedicated and won't get distracted you could become good in a year or less. However if you lose interest it'll either never happen or take 3+ years.


Learn the basics (Chords + Scales) then move on to harder stuff. But most of all, don't get bored!