Its the same with the Uni Profs i had, they are tomes of knowledge but some of them really suck at teaching. As for guitar teachers (those that I had), I find that they tend to try to impose their style on u rather than let u develop ur own style.
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"Technically, I'm not a guitar player. All I play is truth and emotion." - Jimi Hendrix
Well, it's apparent that guitar teachers are close to being 'a dime a dozen', except that they charge a thousand times more than a dime.
Teaching, being a trainer; is a near full-time effort. It's not just about guitars, music, musicians, lifestyle, parents, girlfriends/boyfriends, bandmembers, instruments, pedals, software, etc etc etc, but it's ALSO alot about pedagogy.
Can you handle these? If you can't, then how can you be a teacher/trainer???
You make do yah. You do your best. And as long as you're doing your best, you'll get there - maybe. So, in the meantime, get some freshair. Breathe. Be silly. Be stupid, because you are.
It takes years of knowledge and constant upkeep and having a mindset to be a trainer - not a player. You must want to assist, help, train - go out of your way. Be in step. Be in line. Be there when they need you. Can you really be all of that?
Having said that, and all of that, I want to sign up for a course with Shredcow as soon as I puncture my piggybank.
no doubt, the avaiabilty of materials on the internet nowadays are loads better reference that when i first started where cassetes tapes are the norm. or maybe that's the problem - people learnt in the privacy of their bedroom, not under the void-decks anymore, where I first started....lol. no more jamming, you know?
just my thoughts.
hey dj we got a thing or 2 in common, sadly not the git part though.. hehe
started with cassette tapes too, trying to figure each note just by hearing.. duh!
keep rewinding & forwarding, back & forth use pencil until all the tape roll out from the cassette
came to a point when it gets torn, tried to re attach back the part where it broke by using scotch tape...
hmm come to think of it, all that $2.50 tapes were 'local pressed' & even came with complete 'album photo cover' eh..
ps. i love rima's voice & stage presence, where art thou rima? :mrgreen:
I don't think they clone Jimi. I think they steal his ideas and make them their own. Vai's stage antics. Satch's blues lines. Etc etc. I wouldn't say Satch is the new Hendrix though.
A clone to me would be ... Joe Stump to Malmsteen. Where you listen and scratch your head and think, why I am hearing 100% XXX when I'm seeing YYY play?!
I don't think imitation of certain aspects is bad. I think cloning like in, 100% trying to be the exact same thing, like an Elvis impersonation (slightly out of context but you get the idea).
I think add one's own flavouring is key...
Well there's still a diff between joe and yngwie, i find there's 1 famous yngwie lick not found in joe's playing as far as i know.
anybody understands the difference between "i'm a guitar teacher" and "i teach guitar"? do you need to be a teacher to teach? what defines a teacher then? an NIE cert? 5 years experience?
i teach my gf guitar though i am by no means a qualified guitar teacher (is there a guitar teacher certification in the first place??).
i taught my friends maths though i was barely through seconday school. i'm not a teacher.
