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Have you ever had lessons?
Topic Started: Sep 10 2007, 04:21 PM (935 Views)
JoDuncan	Sep 10 2007, 04:21 PM Post #1
Advanced Member Posts: 143 Group: Members Member #189 Joined: January 17, 2007	Just curious as to how many people on here are self-taught... I've never had a lesson, but i am far from good. So, i could probably benefit from a lesson or two to learn some good habits. I was also wondering what it is that goes on in guitar lessons that a few hours of practice wouldn't do for ya. Peace and love Jo



+ Rob S	Sep 10 2007, 04:24 PM Post #2
Retired Posts: 918 Group: Retired Member #770 Joined: July 6, 2007	In the conventional sense.....Paid someone to teach me.....No. But....... I have learned so much from other Players that I can't help but think "Yes" would apply just as well.
	"Drunk" is feeling sophisticated even though you can't say it!


+ Pantera_fan	Sep 10 2007, 04:26 PM Post #3
Retired Posts: 290 Group: Retired Member #745 Joined: July 3, 2007	lessons improved my playing no ends, mainly because i now play lot of different styles, so instead of just playin trivium metallica etc, i know play everything from british punk to texan blues lol
	15 years in the academy, he was like no cadet they had ever seen, a man so hard his veins bleed ice when he speaks he never says it twice the call him judge, last name Dredd so break the law and you'll wind up dead!!!


FocusShift	Sep 10 2007, 06:05 PM Post #4
Call me Stefan Posts: 396 Group: Moderator Member #1,250 Joined: August 26, 2007	I took guitar lessons for half a year or so? Didn't learn anything other than how to fret notes and shizz
	Apex of Extinction (band) [Ex/Im] (Solo) Guitars: Ibanez RG7621 Agile Intrepid Pro 830 8-string Jackson RR3 Amps: Peavey 6505+ Bugera 333XL Peavey 4x12 Other: TC Electronic M300 Rack ISP Decimator


haze1982	Sep 10 2007, 06:32 PM Post #5
Advanced Member Posts: 233 Group: Members Member #58 Joined: August 30, 2006	i'm currently taking lessons, with works out good for me, tried for ages to self teach myself but wasn't getting anywhere, i personally need someone to actually show me what to do, how to do it etc, i know alot of people can teach themselves, but i ain't like that at all



x.Louise	Sep 11 2007, 09:46 AM Post #6
Member Posts: 95 Group: Members Member #510 Joined: May 19, 2007	ye I sort of get weekly lessons in my school. It's mostly just me hanging out with the teacher the whole day and jamming with his students :rolleyes: I do have a set time in which its me and my bands bassist and at the moment im doing stuff like scales and real technique so helping me to eventually making learning to play real fast like shredding easier for me; I think. But it helps for some. What I expect is to learn to play 'stuff' at home and learn how to learn, kinda, in my lessons. My lessons are free hense I take them. Yet I wouldn't pay some £24/hr for a lesson though. Unless I was very rich and I had already bought everything I wanted...
	Louise xox Westfield SG- R.I.P Dean Vendetta Rocket 10 amp- badass... -.- Behrginer Ultra Metal


JoDuncan	Sep 11 2007, 12:22 PM Post #7
Advanced Member Posts: 143 Group: Members Member #189 Joined: January 17, 2007	Wonder how much Satch charges per hour....



+ Pantera_fan	Sep 11 2007, 04:10 PM Post #8
Retired Posts: 290 Group: Retired Member #745 Joined: July 3, 2007	JoDuncan Sep 11 2007, 12:22 PM Wonder how much Satch charges per hour.... i hate to think.... i pay for my own guitar teacher, we played walk together at a music festival in July, he learnt the solo in like 3 days, it was immense lol
	15 years in the academy, he was like no cadet they had ever seen, a man so hard his veins bleed ice when he speaks he never says it twice the call him judge, last name Dredd so break the law and you'll wind up dead!!!


MartinBarre	Sep 29 2007, 10:47 AM Post #9
Advanced Member Posts: 110 Group: Members Member #1,543 Joined: September 14, 2007	I first started with lessons at school when I was about 14. Learned how to play simple things like the "Laurel and Hardy" riff and "Good King Wenceslas". Then when I got an electric my mum insisted on paying for me to go to a "proper" teacher. But I could actually play better than the teacher. I stopped going after a couple of lessons.



Flying Vee	Oct 3 2007, 03:53 PM Post #10
Weather Presenter Posts: 218 Group: Members Member #1,347 Joined: September 1, 2007	I've never had a lesson, My brother showed me the "E" chord and that was it! I could do with one or two lessons on Lead techniques
	Boom Boom


boozypete	Oct 3 2007, 08:51 PM Post #11
Member Posts: 21 Group: Members Member #1,369 Joined: September 2, 2007	I had a "lesson" when I got my first guitar with an older cousin called Huggy. It consisted of me playing an open D up and down the fretboard in a short repeating pattern while he became some kind of lead guitar hero..............FOR TWO HOURS!!! Didn't bother after that. Just learned by listening and copying and experimenting.
	Anyone fancy a pint?


+ Rob S	Oct 4 2007, 08:47 AM Post #12
Retired Posts: 918 Group: Retired Member #770 Joined: July 6, 2007	Best form of Lesson in the world? Jamming with another Player! Preferably a far more experienced Player at that, but I can honestly say that the creative juices always flow for me when I am able to sit with another Guitarist.
	"Drunk" is feeling sophisticated even though you can't say it!


+ johnbrigade	Oct 4 2007, 09:50 AM Post #13
Retired Posts: 199 Group: Retired Member #1,088 Joined: August 15, 2007	I had lessons..... .....when I learned to drive. Taught myself the guitar though. In terms of learning new stuff, if I have to learn a song for the functions band, I can usually find the tab online - listen to it - and pick it up from that. My ear's not bad, probably because I learned to play guitar by listening to CDs and playing along with the song books - Oasis, Bluetones, Seahorses (although trying to keep up with John Squire in full show-off mode isn't a great idea when you're learning) and I just started to remember what chords go where, which fingers go where to make up full chords and then started to learn a bit of theory - I can find my way around a fingerboad and I know a few scales but I still can't read music.
	Playing the right notes in the wrong order since 1994 ______________________________________________ My band


Flying Vee	Oct 4 2007, 01:18 PM Post #14
Weather Presenter Posts: 218 Group: Members Member #1,347 Joined: September 1, 2007	boozypete Oct 3 2007, 08:51 PM I had a "lesson" when I got my first guitar with an older cousin called Huggy. It consisted of me playing an open D up and down the fretboard in a short repeating pattern while he became some kind of lead guitar hero..............FOR TWO HOURS!!! Didn't bother after that. Just learned by listening and copying and experimenting. Funny you saying that peter, i remember playing a boring quo like riff whilst my brother widdled and diddled for hours! He even made me record it and then play it back to him over and over again! :lol:
	Boom Boom


boozypete	Oct 4 2007, 10:38 PM Post #15
Member Posts: 21 Group: Members Member #1,369 Joined: September 2, 2007	Vee, it looks like you and me have both been abused as some kind of "rhythm bitches". Perhaps we should seek out a good therapist. john, my learning experiences are similar to yoiurs except...I don't understand tab. It's just a load of dots to me. I don't know what a diminished chord is, nor indeed what "sus" means. I play major and minor chords, and if they don't sound right it's a case of listen and experiment until it sounds right. Actually...can someone tell me what a diminished chord is?
	Anyone fancy a pint?


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