Practice practice practice. The sound will come later. Do finger drills and major and minor scales up and down the nevt of the guitar. Over and over and over. Pick a couple of songs, simple 3 - 5 chords. Write down the lyrics and chord changes. Play them over and over and over and sing them the best you can. Any old blues songs are great. There’s a thing called 16 bar blues progression. Practically every blue song and a ton of rock songs follow this pattern, 1-4-5, eg A,D,E. Make’m 7ths. Within a month or so, bust out your guitar and play and sing for someone. Btw, blues are the absolute best for learning to improvise. You can hardly find a wrong note. Learn to play and sing Boom Boom by John Lee Hooker. E,A7,B7…just strum these chords, don’t worry about the licks. In no time at all, you’ll be rocking out. Your reward is to get to share your work with someone and think of it as a gift to them. Now get to work. Consistency is everything!

and Lard!!

Yep- beat me too it. Ecstasy of gold intro gets my ass on the treadmill most days.

Audiogalaxy was the fuckin best

Others recommended already but start with learning open chords and power chords. Once you got some of those down you can progress to barre chords but those are even a bit challenging to me if i haven’t touched my guitar in a while (been playing for 15 years or so). Other than that nothing wrong with using tabs - find some easy songs you like and work on just playing notes/melodies as well!

Thrust by Herbie Hancock is my favorite from his 70's funk era, much credit owed to his badass rhythm section (Paul Jackson on bass and Mike Clark on drums). The deep grooves on that album are ludicrous. Yes Headhunters is an absolute classic but Thrust is the one that really turned me on to funk/jazz fusion. Apparently the entire thing was only recorded in a few takes which is amazing though not all that surprising.

If thats the correct form then so be it.

Make sure to get your elbow out from your body. That usually helps with hand position.

Obvious one but i remember when Get Lucky by Daft Punk dropped thinking well I’ll be hearing this one at weddings, parties, bars, bar-mitzvahs etc. for the rest of my life.

What is album.

Casiopea

Check out Three Six Mafia, Project Pat, EightBall & MJG

As far as new Rock and Metal go the radio is dead to me. Unless it's a special segment or show you aint getting any Metal. I see no radio stations with only new Rock. You have to sit through 25 songs you got sick of 30 years ago to hear 1 new song and it's one that SUCKS.

There is a ton of good new music being released but you have to hunt it down differently.

I'll sample new songs on Amazon. Play a fuller version on YouTube. Buy when ever.

I’ve naturally gravitated toward the heavier genres of music my entire life, I just find the expression and emotion present in furious guitar riffs and screams to work for me better than any singing can. Not to say I don’t appreciate other music, I was just in a musical; and my taste does reach outside the metal bubble. I can’t really provide an explanation, just a feeling honestly.

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Improvising and playing by ear has nothing to do with learning tabs or proper musical notation. Some of the greatest folks to ever play by ear or improvise don’t even know how to read music.

It’s not to say the rest of us can’t ever be a great improvisational musician, but a lot of it is pure gifted talent.

Give it time, play every day, solidify your fundamentals, keep your nails short, and get better one chord at a time.

Your still a young man , Tower of power. Touching me softly, Roberta Flack

I was just scrolling to find that one person who would say this, ha I found you lol, na queen are great dude, there plenty of great stuff, bohemian rhapsody alone is enough to put them in the list of one of the greatest

Songs don’t get much bleaker than One.

Piano for sure

Can't go wrong with Tower of Power!

It’s definitely not my kind of music but it’s still cool. I’m curious though, how did you get into such heavy music?

I think they have some fun songs

I haven’t seen them live but granted they are top class musician I never liked their music I don’t see what’s so special about it or why they are a standout band from the rest of the crowd 🤷🏻‍♂️

I found Seven. Most of their music reminds me a bit of Tool but the music can be heavier at times. Also sometimes the music... I was gonna try explaining all of the differences. They are not the same but you can tell there is some similarity. This is my favorite song.

I found ARO. This is Ozzy Osbourn's daughter. Her name is Ashley Osbourn, hence the ARO.

I've become a fan of Daddyphatsnaps. He creates rap songs/videos based on fictional characters. Not the normal recommendation but I really like it.