Stuck

[sheviey]

I am feeling stuck and getting fed up with this music thing. I know scales minor and major arpeggios progressions and chords. How do i begin to play songs now?

[bopeuph]

The only advice most anyone can give, is just do it.  Music is something we almost always just jump into.  I would go out and get some stuff to play to help along my reading, and learn some stuff by ear.  Plus, I would then get recordings of whatever I was reading to play along with it.

Nick

[T-Block]

I am feeling stuck and getting fed up with this music thing. I know scales minor and major arpeggios progressions and chords. How do i begin to play songs now?

Now that you got the basics, it's time to learn how to organize them into songs.  I would suggest that you listen to CDs or whatever and see how they organize their chords.  As you are listening to those CDs, write down the chords and progressions that you hear.  You should start to notice some patterns in most music.  Then, try to reproduce what you hear until your ear becomes so developed that you can play more by instinct.

[darkwing]

It's all about the I, IV, and V chord.  Learn to recognize these chords first, then start to learn the infinite ways of moving between them.  Take a look at http://freegospelresource.com/theory/major-scale-harmony-and-chords.html for an explanation of how to use Major scale harmony to play by ear.

[sheviey]

Thank you all for your help.

[raegenius]

I am feeling stuck and getting fed up with this music thing.

Feeling stuck and getting fed up. Guess what I've been there ask any other musician probably tells you the same thing. I went around asking, asking what to practice, cause basically that's it we are just stuck not knowing what to practice.

Well this is the (my) 3 steps out of 4 formula.

1. Scales - Major, minor, blues.
2. Chords - Major, minor, sevenths
3. Progressions - 2-5-1 or 6-2-5-1

So once I got the major scales. I moved on to forming my chords major, minor, diminished didn't really focus on augmented back then. Then moved on to progressions. Progressions make songs. A 2-5-1 for example almost always ends a song. So you can now end any song.

example key c

2 D/D-F-A
5 G/F-G-B-D
1 C/C-E-G 

And most importantly use the resources available (hint: LGM). Peace!!