What should I learn if I want to improve fast

[fathom juniper]

I’m just wondering like the steps to improving. Rn I’m just kinda just playing song riffs and sorts.

[alpine nova]

Play through whole songs first, it's good for endurance and for focus

Take things that are slightly too hard / fast

[rose crane]

Depends on what you mean by improve?
You mean musically or technically?

If you want to mimick riffs then play and practice riffs and songs. Do it analytically... so look at your posture, technique and whenever you make a mistake analyze what you're doing. Example, for bends... are they in tune?

If you want to improve musically, learn the basic scales up and down the neck.
C major
A Minor

E Minor
G Major

D Minor
F Major,

Etc.

Learn the Pentatonic Scale and all it's positions if you're into Rock and Metal.

Of course, learn all the different guitar techniques

• Alternate Picking
• Hammer-ons
• Pull/Flick-offs
• Slides
• Bends
• Vibrato
• Tremolo picking
• Trills
• Harmonics

Learn all these well enough to where you can do scales with these techniques.

Train your ears to hear the different intervals

Etc, etc, etc.

So many things to keep you busy for quite a while.

Look at https://www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons

Easy to understand and straight-forward and free courses.

[cobalt swallow]

How do you recommend learning scales? If I learnt C major for say as 1 2 3 etc should I also learn A minor as 1 2 b3 and so on?

[rose crane]

If anything, try to do it in a musical context.
So either record a backing track just playing the Am Chord and letting it ring, or find a drone Am backing track, and play the scale to that.

Play the scale up and down with quarter notes, then again with 8th notes, with 16th notes, with Triplets, in different positions, switching from one position to the next, with hammer-ons/pull-offs, with bends, etc. etc, etc.. The sky is the limit for the possibilities of practicing scales

What that will accomplish is to train your ears to that scale and the unique sounds therein, so if you are in that key, you can recognize it and solo or compose something that will sound congruent to that key.

[cobalt swallow]

Yeah true. I would do that but I was asking from an intervallic perspective. Like if you asked me to solo in A minor and I visualized it like a vi chord and not i chord would that be fine?

[rose crane]

Sure.. if it fits the overall tonality of the piece.... why not?

[cobalt swallow]

Alright I appreciate it thanks!

[rose crane]

👍 No worries!

[fathom juniper]

Thanks

[rose crane]

🤘

[hallow bronze]

you forgot about hybrid picking, quite a bit of songs use it and its better to start learning it early