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 Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:53 am
I teach myself and when my uncle comes down from Montreal he gives me pointers and what not.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:54 pm
dancing with myself gives me pointers lol
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:00 pm
I think having a teacher explain and help you is better. Sure, you can play around and learn just the tabs online, but you'll never know about scales, octaves, strumming patterns, playing with 3 fingers and not a pick, etc.
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:04 pm
I recommend learning from a teacher.
My first and only teachers were an essentric, hippie couple; they were awesome. Unforunatly, the husband passed and the wife stopped teaching. After that happened, I did my own thing. I'm going to try to take classical guitar in college next semester.
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:59 am
idk, they have positives and negatives. but usually, i think that teachers are better unless you know wat you're doing. I've been learning from a pastor but there are a lot of skills that I have taught myself. Now I'm going to start getting guitar lessons.
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:45 pm
My school has a guitar class taught by my favorite teacher. So, I get free lessons pretty much.
It's good, because he'll give me good practice tips and he helps me play songs that I print out tabs for. Not Tomorrow was the first actual song I learned (not completely, though). It had finger picking and chords; both of which I had never done. And, he taught me how to play it. He told me that I should play each chord repetitively for about 5-10 minutes, then practice switching between them. It really helped me play the song at the right speed.
He also taught us how to tune our guitars, how to re-string them, how to read tabs, what notes are on each fret and so much more. He's seriously a Godsend.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:53 pm
honestly you can only go so far with teaching yourself, you shoudl ge ta teacher...especially for calssical gutiar stuff, and music theory
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:18 pm
TheSixStringKid I recommend learning from a teacher. My first and only teachers were an essentric, hippie couple; they were awesome. Unforunatly, the husband passed and the wife stopped teaching. After that happened, I did my own thing. I'm going to try to take classical guitar in college next semester. Word of advice my fellow guitarist. You may want to talk to some of the classical guitarists first to get an idea of the type of teacher. Also, classical guitar takes a lot of devotion. I thought it would be easier than jazz lol( my mistake), so when I began college, I started as a classical guitar major. I learned after 3 semesters that if you want to be good at classical guitar(just GOOD), then you'll pretty much have to give up any other style of playing until you build your chops with it, otherwise nothing will stick. And to be great, thats another dimension.
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:21 pm
I've had lessons for 6 years, this including my college classes. I taught myself for the first year. It really isn't better or worse to teach yourself. It just depends on the type of person you are. I do good teaching myself, but I'm the type that needs more structure in my learning. If you feel that the structure is too constricting, then you would probably be happier teaching yourself.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:40 pm
I taught myself to play 1) because its fun and I was just messing around before I started improving. 2) I'm to broke to get lessons.
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:25 pm
I pretty much taught myself. My Dad helped me here and there though. I think lessons would be neat, but I don't have the money.
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:07 pm
do both , but make sure you have a really great teacher lol
What people dont get is that teacher are just there to help out alittle . The rest is up to the student .
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:38 am
I'm a total hack. I'd like a teacher, but I'm too poor to afford one, so I'm teaching myself theory from a cereal box on the intarwebz.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:49 am
I've taught myself to play, but I would always prefer lessons. It means you are learning from someone who has mastered guitar and knows almost everything.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:10 pm
LostxInxLonliness I've taught myself to play, but I would always prefer lessons. It means you are learning from someone who has mastered guitar and knows almost everything. Nobody has mastered the guitar. The guitar evolves. You can't keep up with it. Additionally, a lot of guitarists who think they're pros and teach don't want to experiment because they're locked up into their idiom.
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