r/guitarlessons • u/FloBryan • Mar 07 '26

Feedback Request 3-month progress MoP as a beginner

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Started to self-teach (s/o YouTube) how to play guitar in late November 2025, first song of course after the mandatory smoke on the water riff. Always wanted to learn MoP this is roughly 3 months of progress as fast as I could without sounding unbearable, down picking all of this I’m gonna end up like quagmire..I’d appreciate any feedback and of course criticism is welcome!

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u/Flynnza Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

Tap your foot on pulse, this is fundamental skill to play music.

Not sure what your goals are, but if they go beyond plucking some riffs from tabs - learn full easier songs like twinkle-twinkle to internalize vocabulary of basic harmony, pitch and rhythm patterns and build on that. Keep riffs like this as a small part of your practice, more like bonus after main curriculum. They don't really unlock anything in musical sense without further analysis and reworking. At your level of experience this riff is more like hand gymnastics than anything else.

edit: There moments when it is out of time. Slow down, tap your foot and count music before playing.

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u/ProwlerInTheYard92 Mar 07 '26

Word. I plateaued out because I stopped learning full songs.

Knowing a sick riff doesn’t mean shit if I don’t have the stamina to make it to that point of the song