It's Never Too Late to Learn Guitar

Re:It's Never Too Late to Learn Guitar by azakai on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:32PM (#15009973)

> Picking is much harder than fretting.

Is it? I've been playing classical and folk for a long time and I think picking is far, far easier.

Maybe picking is harder in other styles, like electric guitar?

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Re:It's Never Too Late to Learn Guitar by beat on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:22PM (#15010475)

It definitely is. Classical picking is hard, too. It's about generating a good tone and keeping good time, and also about muting to control rhythm and tone as well as unwanted notes. Picking is an endlessly deep well. Chords and scales are quite straightforward by comparison.

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Re:It's Never Too Late to Learn Guitar by azakai on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:01PM (#15010890)

Very strange to hear that. Fretting is far, far harder in my experience, especially the more sophisticated chord formations.

I guess for different people it's different.

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