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#290699 - 16/12/11 08:29 PM
Re: Self taught, or lessons.
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ShortFingers
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Registered: 09/06/11
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Loc: Edinburgh
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Thanks everyone for your input, thinking of going down the lessons route as the wife has offered to get me some for Crimbo (think shes gettin peed off listening to me) so heres hoping the lessons will be appreciated by both of us.
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#291171 - 30/12/11 02:44 PM
Re: Self taught, or lessons.
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pandawill
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Registered: 30/12/11
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If you are a comlete beginner my advice would be to get a few lessons so you know how to tune the guitar and the basic chord shapes.
However don't waste £20 per hour whist a teacher sits there watching you trying to finger an A triad. Once you've got the very basics teach yourself for a while until you've got to grips with the minor and major pentatonics / some seventh chords and maybe the idea of modes.
At that point get some more lessons so that somebody can show you what to do with what you've learnt.
That's what I wish I'd done anyway!
Good luck
Will
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#294476 - 19/03/12 09:48 PM
Re: Self taught, or lessons.
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ShortFingers
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Hi everyone, just thought I would reserect this thread and let you know how I was doing. I have taken around ten lessons since the turn of the year and things seem to be goin OK. I must confess I had a poor almost non existant sense of rythym before taking lessons but not now and this has helped me progress. I must say though that the advice about no 'quick fix' to developing smooth chord changes was correct and that practice will eventually pay off is also correct. When I first bought my guitar a couldn't play a note but now I can strum all the basic and some of the other chords as well and can even do some of the easier chord changes, I still hit the odd bum note at times but I now know that practice will get me there eventually.
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#294478 - 19/03/12 09:59 PM
Re: Self taught, or lessons.
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Ape09090
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Registered: 01/12/11
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Loc: South Wales
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good on ya ShortFingers,why not give us a youtube performance now?
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#294480 - 19/03/12 10:19 PM
Re: Self taught, or lessons.
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ShortFingers
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Registered: 09/06/11
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Loc: Edinburgh
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good on ya ShortFingers,why not give us a youtube performance now?
Well unfortunatley I aint that good, I still get 'banished' to the kitchen to practice as apparently I sound better in there. (according to the wife)
But maybe one day.
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#294483 - 20/03/12 01:04 AM
Re: Self taught, or lessons.
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Ape09090
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Registered: 01/12/11
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Loc: South Wales
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we don't care mate,show us what you're doing when you get a tune together
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#294853 - 28/03/12 12:04 AM
Re: Self taught, or lessons.
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Sinnik_Al
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In my humble opinion, lessons from a great teacher is an invaluable experience. Apart from the technical stuff, he/she can show you how to keep your motivation and always improve your playing. Also, he/she can point out your weaknesses and suggest exactly what you should focus on, something really hard if not impossible to spot yourself mostly because of ego defense mechanisms 
Edited by Sinnik_Al (28/03/12 12:04 AM)
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