What type of music are you trying to play. Most music is not going to sound remotely like what you want unless it was acoustic to begin with and with little accompanying it.

I suggest you just get good about being consistent. You dont have to practice 2 hours a day. Just try five minutes. Make it a routine.

As far as what to practice? Depends on where you are at. Learn chords. These are easy and give you good mileage. I would also strongly recommend learning to read music. Yes its cumbersome at first and tab is a lot more intuitive to pick up, but in the long run, you see more returns.

Lastly, consider theory. There is theory pertaining to the guitar, but im more so just referring to the different types of chords, intervals, and the associated sounds that arise from stacking them.

There's loads of cheap practice exercises you can do which will help you improve your technical skill but truth be told, for the majority of contemporary music that is meant to be performed, there is not a lot of technicality going on, just a lot of practice and repetition.

>>34441762
>What type of music are you trying to play. Most music is not going to sound remotely like what you want unless it was acoustic to begin with and with little accompanying it.
Bit of Metallica, bit of rock and a bit of acoustic type music like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdl6V5otgoY
>I suggest you just get good about being consistent. You dont have to practice 2 hours a day. Just try five minutes. Make it a routine.
>As far as what to practice? Depends on where you are at. Learn chords. These are easy and give you good mileage. I would also strongly recommend learning to read music. Yes its cumbersome at first and tab is a lot more intuitive to pick up, but in the long run, you see more returns.
>Lastly, consider theory. There is theory pertaining to the guitar, but im more so just referring to the different types of chords, intervals, and the associated sounds that arise from stacking them.
My issue is I still don't understand how these would lead to me being able to play the music I want to play.
Sure I can play the chords and strum them but I still take too long to switch between them. How will practicing more chords lead to playing faster or switching fast? and how will learning about music theory help? Everyone says to do those things but no one shows how they translate to skill
>There's loads of cheap practice exercises you can do which will help you improve your technical skill but truth be told, for the majority of contemporary music that is meant to be performed, there is not a lot of technicality going on, just a lot of practice and repetition.
Yeah I know it's practice but I'm not seeing any of the practice I do translating to the music I want to play, things still sound bad and I'm still so fucking far away

>>34441743
Are you talking rock/pop or classical? Classical guitar takes a lifetime to master. Rock/pop is learning a few basic chords.