Any other struggling guitarist out there?

Steve is indeed great

 

I am still struggling with winter wind.That section at 3:20, descending in thirds and fourths still catches me.

Perhaps I should have settled for learning the guitar,

 

you will learn "economy of movement" relax and for awhile try not to look at you left hand for a bit. learn to feel " the grip" of the chord. and the picking hand as well, learn to use alternate and sweep picking also with small moves. if you are picking downward, lean the pick down and vice versa . this helps your speed

 

the idea is to keep the pick from getting trapped between the strings. if you have to lift the pick out from between the strings to pick another string it will slow you down. sometimes you cant help it. and always picking downward , as we all do in the beginning, will slow you down as well

 

After hacking away at the guitar over the years, I have a few songs I can play. It's not easy to learn but I just have fun so it's never a stuggle. Like anything else worth learning, you have to work hard. Keep at it and keep it fun!

 

John Lennon started on a banjo and look how far he went.
That's a good suggestion.

 

Devil$ $how

 

Well we all know this guy didn't struggle like us mere mortals. Rest Easy my friend.

 

I think what I notice most about Eddie is the practice. That's what I think of when I hear him play. Same thing with like Yngwie, or maybe even Steve Vai, but more so formerly now with Eddie Van Halen. What an amazing musician! He was... R.I.P.

 

You can only wonder on the number of struggling guitarist who used Eddie as inspiration to be more. The music of Van Halen helped shape my generation and played a big part in the course of music.

 

Can you play a 12 bar

 

I have not particularly worked on a 12 bar blues progression. I do have a pocketful of chords I know and I do some work with the A minor pentatonics with the Blues note added in. Most of my work the last few years has been concentrated on some of the simpler stuff that Joe Satarini does, a progression of individual notes with bends, slides, pull offs etc. I've been really considering working more on the slide.