Unlearning the plastic guitar to play Squier

[dTorC4]

This is frustrating. I am having a hard time getting use to moving my fingers from string to string (across the fretboard) when changing notes as opposed to moving my fingers down the fretboard like on the plastic guitar.

Ugh... anybody else pulling their hair out?

[Doc_SoCal]

Welcome to real.

I suspect many 5 button masters are in the same boat.

I can't say I am getting frustrated since it's not something I expected to master in two weeks but it sure does illustrate how little 5 button guitar has in common with real playing. Sight reading, even on easy is a whole new ball o wax with six strings and 22 frets.

Practice, practice, practice, repeat.

The upside is your learning a real skill.

[raynebc]

I was getting pretty good on the Mustang, but the Squier is very unforgiving about fretting technique. That means I can't sloppily press strings down at an angle because the string will slide outside the small amount of fret area where it will get counted.

[twilight klaas]

I was getting pretty good on the Mustang, but the Squier is very unforgiving about fretting technique. That means I can't sloppily press strings down at an angle because the string will slide outside the small amount of fret area where it will get counted.

Were you playing your mustang or squier yesterday? you seemed pretty good to me.

[jordan15b]

Strangely i never had that problem when i picked up a real guitar for the first time.
it was right after gh3 came out i decided to start playing real guitar. I never had a problem strumming the right strings i always have had a hard time playing certain chords correctly

[stangace20]

This is frustrating. I am having a hard time getting use to moving my fingers from string to string (across the fretboard) when changing notes as opposed to moving my fingers down the fretboard like on the plastic guitar.

Ugh... anybody else pulling their hair out?

yeah, me too but I expected that. I mean anything worth doing isn't going to be easy straight off the bat.

It's not something you're going to master in a week/month or whatever. It's gonna take time and practice...mainly just for you to get used to the different hand positions,chords, and strings as well as limbering up your fingers and building up your calices on your fingertips.

Once you get past that....the sky's the limit

The fact that there are probably a lot of people who were experts w/ the buttons but aren't finding this as easy or quite as fun to start w/ will really seperate those who got it "cause it would be cool to play" and those who are serious about learning to play

So all you can do is keep at and try not to get too discouraged

[raynebc]

Were you playing your mustang or squier yesterday? you seemed pretty good to me.

I was using the Mustang. It's definitely easier to play, but that's what practice is for.

[sigil82]

I for one am glad to see that people are actually doing this and sticking to it. Gives me hope that if I buy my 13 y/o he might ctually practice. Although he has a real squier up in our spare room that he hasn't touched in a while. To be fair though he doe spractice his trumpet. I want to get him one (my wife also might try it) but I just don't wanna drop the money if it is gonna sit unused.

[mogwaimon]

Yea, I'm having a lot of trouble myself, switching strings and changing chords quickly is a PITA...I have no fail on and my scores on medium are like...1 star or less, haha. And by the time I find the proper fret on Expert, the notes been played for ten minutes already =P

Still, I'm trying to play at least an hour a day, also trying to break bad habits wherever I find them, my strumming hand wants to hold the pick with two fingers but I'm trying to force my hand to let my other three fingers relax like the Marc Seal videos were saying...but better to find the bad habits and break them now than have to tear them down months later

[skyttskytt]

I and everyone I know had that same problem when first starting out on pro - on-screen change from one string to the next made us move across the fretboard instead of over a string. Your brain will undo that after a while, it took me a few days of several hours of play before it just began happening a lot less frequently.