Local Highly Demand Guitar Teacher?
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trianglebiscuit
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TEACH ME!
FullMetalJacket
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hey shredcow, how did u go about starting to learn guitar? self-taught?
FullMetalJacket said:
Yeap... my story is a bit weird.
I played piano for about 10 yrs, classical piano with theory and all that. I hated it, could never connect with the piano.
Then I took up the acoustic guitar 7 1/2 years back.... then the electric guitar, about 3 yrs back.
Now I connected with those, had a burning passion.
And for 1 thing. I never played/practiced any songs. I can count the number of songs (rock songs and what not) I know, on 1 hand. I always had this weird thinking that, if I were to cover other guitarists, I would lose my identity. Good and back lah... so now, I don't know songs but I guess I can pull off some mean originals. 8)
Lemme share my experience with you, bro. Of course the same thing won't happen to you but here's my point of view.
I've been taught by a teacher for about a year when i picked up the electric. Back then i already knew basic chords, acoustic strumming and a little theory from piano lessons when i was a kid.
For the first few lessons my teacher and I were quite lost because i didn't know what i wanted to play. I grew up listening to pop music and oldies. Then in a few weeks He introduced me to metallica and i stumbled onto vai and cacophony on the web. I really dig them and i continued listening to more artists and started to practice a lot to develop my technique.
After around half a year, my technique was much improved thanks to the teacher's guidance and i focused practicing on some songs only and found out that its not difficult to 'shred'. Ya just need a metronome and a LOT of time practicing depending on what you want to play.
Then the rest of the time spent under my teacher was basically learning new licks, phrasings and jamming. I realized that i could get all of those information thru the web which would be a lot cheaper. Even my teacher himself said that he can't 'teach' me much anymore. That it was up to me to improve on my own and to take my own direction. Nowadays i just try to get the music in my head to my guitar and my goal now is to be able to play what's in my head like instantly and not play with overly-practiced licks.
Conclusion? I feeel that if were given a chance to re learn guitar over again, i'd just learn the techniques from a teacher. Practice till i'm happy with it and just improve by myself. Yeah, so i'm probably not gonna invent a new technique on the guitar, but so what? its already so much to learn with all the techniques out there already.
I've been taught by a teacher for about a year when i picked up the electric. Back then i already knew basic chords, acoustic strumming and a little theory from piano lessons when i was a kid.
For the first few lessons my teacher and I were quite lost because i didn't know what i wanted to play. I grew up listening to pop music and oldies. Then in a few weeks He introduced me to metallica and i stumbled onto vai and cacophony on the web. I really dig them and i continued listening to more artists and started to practice a lot to develop my technique.
After around half a year, my technique was much improved thanks to the teacher's guidance and i focused practicing on some songs only and found out that its not difficult to 'shred'. Ya just need a metronome and a LOT of time practicing depending on what you want to play.
Then the rest of the time spent under my teacher was basically learning new licks, phrasings and jamming. I realized that i could get all of those information thru the web which would be a lot cheaper. Even my teacher himself said that he can't 'teach' me much anymore. That it was up to me to improve on my own and to take my own direction. Nowadays i just try to get the music in my head to my guitar and my goal now is to be able to play what's in my head like instantly and not play with overly-practiced licks.
Conclusion? I feeel that if were given a chance to re learn guitar over again, i'd just learn the techniques from a teacher. Practice till i'm happy with it and just improve by myself. Yeah, so i'm probably not gonna invent a new technique on the guitar, but so what? its already so much to learn with all the techniques out there already.
3notesAbar
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FullMetalJacket,
To me, it would seem that you are looking for a long term teacher, and that you would pay decent money, although probably not exhorbitant amounts per month to properly cover your foundation learning in music with the guitar? Do correct me if i'm wrong
Finding the 'best' reknowned instructor probably isn't hard after being thrown a few names, but its obviously the best thing for you to know if the instructor is suitable for you. Go see the person if possible before undertaking a course of lessons. Also, Learning music vs learning to be proficient on an instrument are different subjects. You might want to look for someone with a background which you'd favor i.e. a guitarist you respect / would take as a role-model? I tread on dangerous ground here haha. Oh yeah, not all pub players 'teach hammer-ons and move on', so keep your options open and your bridges unburnt
EDIT: my speller-ing sucks at 5am...peace.
To me, it would seem that you are looking for a long term teacher, and that you would pay decent money, although probably not exhorbitant amounts per month to properly cover your foundation learning in music with the guitar? Do correct me if i'm wrong
Finding the 'best' reknowned instructor probably isn't hard after being thrown a few names, but its obviously the best thing for you to know if the instructor is suitable for you. Go see the person if possible before undertaking a course of lessons. Also, Learning music vs learning to be proficient on an instrument are different subjects. You might want to look for someone with a background which you'd favor i.e. a guitarist you respect / would take as a role-model? I tread on dangerous ground here haha. Oh yeah, not all pub players 'teach hammer-ons and move on', so keep your options open and your bridges unburnt
EDIT: my speller-ing sucks at 5am...peace.
perhaps a good tip to finding a good guitar teacher would be to know what you want to learn, sometimes you might find yourself learning stuff you don't want to learn and normally you'll just lose your focus and all that. a good guitar teacher will also tell you if you can pick up on your own and all u need is a little guidance, my yamaha teacher back then told me to leave yamaha cause he felt that i had learnt enough to go pursue whatever i wanted to pursue and that the only thing that would stop me from reaching my goal was if i were to stop practicing.
Welcome back Grinder! And you took the effort to post 1st thing in the morning... sweet.
After 2 years, no change no?
Hehehe.
Whitestrat
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Whitestrat
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No... In Shreddy's case, it's the "too lazy to learn a new riff" syndrome... More fun to create his own...:mrgreen:
bedokkids
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everyone is talking abt primarily techniques.
there's a dozen of teacher who can show you what you want honestly.
however many times... other key scopes of study are thoroughly neglected,
and good things abt is that these skills can be practise without instrument!.
what am i refering to?
sight-reading and aural& ear training.
there's a dozen of teacher who can show you what you want honestly.
however many times... other key scopes of study are thoroughly neglected,
and good things abt is that these skills can be practise without instrument!.
what am i refering to?
sight-reading and aural& ear training.
