Not Getting Any Better? | Worship Guitar

[@joshuaness2977]

Just found this channel, love watching some guitarists teaching each other new skills!

[@worshipartistry]

Thanks for the stopping by! What new skills have you been trying to learn lately?

[@joshuaness2977]

@@worshipartistry unfortunately I don’t have as much time to play as I’d like, but I’ve been trying to learn some parts from new worship songs when I can :)

[@mattmitchell9298]

Wow, that was refreshing. I feel like we skip basic rudiments to find new stuff to do. Wow so simple, so profound! Thanks, guys!

[@worshipartistry]

@@mattmitchell9298 thanks! We often are looking for a cool or flashy thing to learn and get us out of that rut, but just look back to the basics and change it up a little. We had Nick sweating, haha. It took him a very long time to get that down, we edited most of that out 😂

[@jimduyck]

A rear tire tread separation on your 15 passenger band van that smashes into the coolant lines feeding the rear heater core for the HVAC system in the back...causing you to lose A TON of your coolant...yeah, that'll leave you STUCK in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. Ahhh the memories!

[@double-r4975]

I find that one of the main ways to get out of a rut is to "embody" another guitarist's play style. Learn a song or guitar piece by somebody else, but watch the original video and try and figure out how the original guitar player did it. Then, ask yourself why they did it that way. There's an endless number of ways to play a piece on guitar, but different musicians find different techniques and positions comfortable. The trick is to emulate another artist's preference instead of your own, until you understand why they did it that way. Maybe they wanted more room to slide into notes. Maybe they liked the sustain or resonance on thicker or thinner strings. Maybe they wanted access to a droning open string. Maybe they wanted a string with more room to bend. TLDR: growth happens when you're out of your comfort zone, so get into somebody else's for a while.

[@worshipartistry]

Absolutely. I've been learning John Mayer's guitar solo from Wheel which does a number of different things than what I normally do and it's amazing how forcing myself to truly comp the solo rather than approximate has opened up my playing.

[@ShreddingFinn]

I like challenging myself with a new piece of music when in a rut. It can be a solo, an instrumental piece, whatever, something that stretches me