guitar lessons advice
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:15 pm
I've played guitar for about 10 years now, but I'm thinking of starting lessons. How do you know where's the best place to take em? I've always picked things up by ear. But now I want to start learning scales, chords, progressions and all that shit so I can solo better. My main goal is to be able to improvise with blues and shit in a band. So if someone tells me what key they're playing in, I'd be able to just pick it up and solo becaues i'd know where to go on the board.
The reason I'm thinking of starting, is that it seems that everone I know who took lessons for a while is sweet. And everyone who never took them is like me...can play a ton of songs, most not from start to end, can do some parts of solos but not the hard shit, etc etc. I have a friend named Mark who shreds. He said he took lessons for about 6 months when he first started guitar, then once he found out what to practice..he didn't need the dude anymore and he got awesome.
All the solo's i know are from memory. All the songs I know are from memory. I don't know the name of one note on the fretboard. So basically, my question is:
-If you're going to take guitar lessons, how'd you go about finding a place?
-How do you konw if the guy who's teaching you knows what the fuck is up
-What are average prices for lessons
-How many times a week did you go?
-When you go, do most guitar teachers have the capability to teach you the specific style you're interested in learning? (I guess it depends on how good he is...but that's part of my question).
So anyway. If you've been playing for a while, can figure out mostly every riff in a couple a minutes, but want to learn theory a bit so you can improvise in bands, figure out song chords better, and figure out solos quicker cuz you know the scale they're in.....what kind of lessons would you get? Where would you go to get them? How many times per week would you go? How do you know what kind of teacher to ask for?
Also, tell me your story (if you took lessons) and how much it helped you learn how to move around on the fretboard and figure out where songs were going?
ps. and if you're Mr. Guitar Website/'Just fuckin start practicing", I don't want to hear any of your shit. I'm very proud of you that you never took lessons, but suck my dick and shut the hell up outta my thread.
The reason I'm thinking of starting, is that it seems that everone I know who took lessons for a while is sweet. And everyone who never took them is like me...can play a ton of songs, most not from start to end, can do some parts of solos but not the hard shit, etc etc. I have a friend named Mark who shreds. He said he took lessons for about 6 months when he first started guitar, then once he found out what to practice..he didn't need the dude anymore and he got awesome.
All the solo's i know are from memory. All the songs I know are from memory. I don't know the name of one note on the fretboard. So basically, my question is:
-If you're going to take guitar lessons, how'd you go about finding a place?
-How do you konw if the guy who's teaching you knows what the fuck is up
-What are average prices for lessons
-How many times a week did you go?
-When you go, do most guitar teachers have the capability to teach you the specific style you're interested in learning? (I guess it depends on how good he is...but that's part of my question).
So anyway. If you've been playing for a while, can figure out mostly every riff in a couple a minutes, but want to learn theory a bit so you can improvise in bands, figure out song chords better, and figure out solos quicker cuz you know the scale they're in.....what kind of lessons would you get? Where would you go to get them? How many times per week would you go? How do you know what kind of teacher to ask for?
Also, tell me your story (if you took lessons) and how much it helped you learn how to move around on the fretboard and figure out where songs were going?
ps. and if you're Mr. Guitar Website/'Just fuckin start practicing", I don't want to hear any of your shit. I'm very proud of you that you never took lessons, but suck my dick and shut the hell up outta my thread.