[DISCUSSION] GUITAR FUNDAMENTALS ROADMAP: for beginner, intermediate, and early-advanced players (most useful for self learning guitarists)

I am sharing this post as I recently stumbled upon a very helpful video that absolutely changed my course into learning the guitar.

—BACKGROUND:

Few months ago, I started lurking on youtube (as most of us self-learning students of the craft do), then enrolled in several beginner to intermediate courses both free(we know who this is) and paid one after another. I was looking for something that I can start with my rusted skill-set and build from there.

I then learned that each of the courses have different teaching styles, fretboard visualization method, etc., and most importantly – different view of the ‘FUNDAMENTALS’ of learning the guitar.

Still followed through and practiced 6 hours / day (including breaks and courses). Soon I studied chords through CAGED, then 3NPS, Modes, Intervals, licks.

I thought I was doing good, but then…

—THE PROBLEM:

…a huge realization. I couldn’t make all the things I learned into something musical – which is supposedly the main purpose of why I started in the first place.

Playing over backing tracks is fun but remove those backing tracks and I’m lost – couldn’t make my own progressions / melodies, etc.

I knew then that I skipped something somewhere.

—SOLUTION:

So I went into youtube rabbit hole again and found this new video:”What to Learn on Guitar in Order” by Kevin Nickens.

And it hit me – I did not go deep into CHORDS and INTERVALS!!! Yes I knew the shapes, memorized some intervallic formulas, but not deep enough to understand their DIATONIC FUNCTIONS and HARMONIZE THE MAJOR SCALE. So now I’m working my way backwards.

—RECOMMENDATION:

The video I shared is so concise and shared all the FUNDAMENTAL topics at a high level – SEQUENTIALLY (very important!!!).

It is to a point that I cancelled my current subscriptions to courses because now I know specifically what to search for next!

Hope this reaches a lot of us who’s trying to self-learn. I’m so glad that someone finally understood us!