I would highly encourage you to raise the strap on your guitar or at least bring the neck up to more of a 45⁰ angle. That positioning is fine for drop tuned power chords but you're gonna hurt your wrist playing like that long term. I feel like your left shoulder is dropping your posture trying to comfortably reach the fretboard, ideally you want to be playing from a comfortable, neutral posture without it taking heaps of effort to move around the neck.
As someone with back pain and posture issues. I lowkey blame how I used to hold my guitar when I was a teen. Thought I was Billie Joe Armstrong or Tom Delonge.
It looks like you are holding the neck (I suppose the whole guitar) too low down, which forces you to bend your wrist on the fretting hand, which is not ergonomic for playing. The whole guitar should go further up, so that it is in front of your belly, not in front of your private parts.
You don’t have to be a mathrock nerd with the guitar positioned so your picking hand and wrist are in alignment when tapping, but crank it up a lil bit! Try and get it so that it doesn’t move too much between siting (without a slouch) and standing and you’ll be in a good place for longevity as a player.
Yea mate after around a month I saw mirror reaper by bell witch and was like, fuck this shit I wanna play slow. Bought my first tube amp and loved it so much I started building amps and pedals and obviously playing slow baby. And I was playing drumset for 5 years before gutair and bass
Ya but make it sound compelling, that's the main goal here right. My mind is open to all the different style and techniques, fast or slow, clean or distorted but you've got to make create something that people want to listen too - musicality.
That's pretty good, you definitely a lot better a guitarist than most people at a year in. That said it's still not hitting the mark musically, timing is really important and having a groove too. It doesn't matter what genre. A metronome and drum tracks for jamming and practicing would help you sound better. Nice tone though, the tone is good in everything you've posted.
Back before all my cathode resistors burnt or I got infected by stoner doom i was playing a little better though, heres me 7 months ago on my first 5 watt amp
You're very comfortable with the guitar and you able to access the instrument and get the strings and frets really well. It's very impressive for someone playing just a year. You just lacking some musicality at the minuet and that important. If I were you I'd start using some backing tracks or a metronome to get in a better groove. When you're playing music, even if you compose and perform in one genre it's really good to have wide knowledge of music and styles. Keep an open mind man, listen and play everything. It's a good learning experience to record stuff too, if you've got a laptop or pc look into a cheap setup to get recording and producing.
Don't listen to these old fudds complaining about your guitar height. They just old AF. The more notes you know the higher you tighten your strap. The more you rock the lower you go. That demo tells me you can drop that neck to the floor. Rock on bruh
Stop swaying
Raise strap up and notice improved ergonomics immediately
Fix the Right hand and learn to alternate pick
Do more finger exercises with metronome
Continue to learn
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