How to improve classical guitar skills without memorising the score?

I want to improve my ability to play songs on the guitar. Not of the strumming kind, but the fretting, fingerstyle kind.

I heard the best way to improve a song is to memorise its score. But I can’t do it – I have a weak memory. For instance, I have never been able to sing a song’s lyrics by heart. The most I can do is memorise how to play the solo interjections typical of pop songs. But I cannot do the full song.

So are there any other good methods to improving my guitar skills? I’m open to any method. For instance, 1 method my friend told me is to train on songs with Barre Chords. It’s supposed to help me with sections of tablature that have the same fret row, by using Barre fingering inside of fretting each fret with the finger tip. It kind of helps.

Barre chords are as helpful as to be free from fretting with a capo (sounds kind of humorous) at least and provides some alternative. But again limits to this technique of any dependency, and still can hinder real expression other than being rhythmic. Pinky works.

Then, what has to make up for the fret positioning of course, is expanding your ability to incorporate the finger style at the soundboard, to carry the melody of notes and provide more enhancement of the music performed and the notes to be expressed.

Most has to come as second nature, after even years of dedicated and rightly enough, enjoyable playing experiences. By ear, by ‘motor’ memory, all of us guitar players come to accomplish and appreciate to the point of pleasant discovery.

And, it will come along according to your personal disciplines, musical interests and through the mere adventures you will create on your own.

That is why scales, learning the many octave (alternative) positioning and becoming familiar with the fretboard will free you from any real plodding of exercises or strict applications in lesson trainings.

One can go through the some 1000 possible chord positioning (remembering but a few) during a lifetime, but to have the ability to be able in running the fret boards (fret fingering agility) top to bottom is not only impressive, but provides the player with true versatility for most any music, guitar style situations.

Classical roots has its relative techniques in finger-style as such great methods as understanding what flamenco and other Spanish influence (if not modern country or rock alternatives) can mean for any player.

For both the finger board hand, and the soundboard hand, in notation manipulations.

But what fun, when you finally arrive at this.

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  • Harry says:

    Barre chords are as helpful as to be free from fretting with a capo (sounds kind of humorous) at least and provides some alternative. But again limits to this technique of any dependency, and still can hinder real expression other than being rhythmic. Pinky works.

    Then, what has to make up for the fret positioning of course, is expanding your ability to incorporate the finger style at the soundboard, to carry the melody of notes and provide more enhancement of the music performed and the notes to be expressed.

    Most has to come as second nature, after even years of dedicated and rightly enough, enjoyable playing experiences. By ear, by ‘motor’ memory, all of us guitar players come to accomplish and appreciate to the point of pleasant discovery.

    And, it will come along according to your personal disciplines, musical interests and through the mere adventures you will create on your own.

    That is why scales, learning the many octave (alternative) positioning and becoming familiar with the fretboard will free you from any real plodding of exercises or strict applications in lesson trainings.

    One can go through the some 1000 possible chord positioning (remembering but a few) during a lifetime, but to have the ability to be able in running the fret boards (fret fingering agility) top to bottom is not only impressive, but provides the player with true versatility for most any music, guitar style situations.

    Classical roots has its relative techniques in finger-style as such great methods as understanding what flamenco and other Spanish influence (if not modern country or rock alternatives) can mean for any player.

    For both the finger board hand, and the soundboard hand, in notation manipulations.

    But what fun, when you finally arrive at this.
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    46 years guitar and keyboard player (all kinds, sizes, styles and ethnic origins)

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