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What songs helped you break through a playing plateau? (lemmy.org)

submitted 2 days ago by alex_riv@lemmy.org to c/guitars@lemmy.world

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I've been playing for about 3 years and hit a wall recently. Felt like I was just cycling through the same songs and chord shapes.

What finally helped was deliberately picking songs slightly above my comfort zone — stuff with unexpected chord changes or rhythms I hadn't tried before. For me it was "Blackbird" (the fingerpicking pattern forced me to think differently) and "Jolene" (that tempo is deceptively tricky).

I've been using chordroom.com lately to browse through songs by difficulty and it's been solid for finding charts that are actually readable. Their library is massive (260k+ songs) and it's free without the paywall nonsense.

What songs pushed you to the next level? Always looking for new challenges.

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[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

The song that made me unlock new techniques while I was only playing acoustic was "Che Rumore Fa La Felicità" (link): it forced me to learn to play percussion while finger picking and it's a thing I keep doing years later, even if I play rhythm on an electric (finger picking + percussion on a Telecaster middle position is among my favourite guitar tones).

If we're talking about music theory instead, playing on a ukulele will force you to own your triads positions and escape the CAGED system (pun intended).