How Do You Learn To Play Fluently? Options

[ChocolateThunda]

Hi all,

I am new here as of today! I heard a lot of good things about your website, and I've decided to come along for the ride and see if you guys can help me develop my playing!

I'm a 21 year old guy from Edinburgh in Scotland, been playing guitar now for about 6 months, and in that time I've learned the basics, and I now feel like I'm ready to start getting into the nitty-gritty rigmarole that is learning the geetar!

So, I've had a wee look around the website already, but I've been unable to find a good topic on my question up the top (If I'm doing it wrong and there already are loads of threads, feel free to shout at me and point me in the right direction )..

My friend suggest I learn the ''modes'', so I took his advice, and learned all the modes. I understand the concept that each mode is just a different degree of the major scale, but when I play with a backing track in the key G, I can play through all the modes individually, but when it comes to actually MOVING up and down the fretboard independently, I struggle and lose my place and.. I suppose I can't SEE the notes that I should be playing. Is there a way to learn how to play more fluently? I mean, if this is only in the key of G, there are 11 other keys that I'd need to learn as well!

Anyway, sorry for the wall of text, and tips, hints, links, advice would be greatly appreciated, and I look forward to learning a lot more thanks to you guys!!

Cheers,
D

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[Cosmin Lupu]

Playing with modes, is nothing else but an approach in which you have a good understanding about the relationship between chords and notes What modal play is really all about? Knowing what note to hit over what chord and when in order to obtain a certain flavor.

Modes are like icream really - imagine that each of them has a different flavor and you can build a song which is like an icecream cone - each ball of icecream has a different taste and flavor and what's best, some of the flavors go really well together.

There's a lot of great suggestions in this thread, so start practicing, mate!

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[SeeJay]

mmmm. . . icecream.

Playing with modes, is nothing else but an approach in which you have a good understanding about the relationship between chords and notes What modal play is really all about? Knowing what note to hit over what chord and when in order to obtain a certain flavor.

Modes are like icream really - imagine that each of them has a different flavor and you can build a song which is like an icecream cone - each ball of icecream has a different taste and flavor and what's best, some of the flavors go really well together.

There's a lot of great suggestions in this thread, so start practicing, mate!

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