I've started having guitar lessons with this bloke I know, and I'm really liking it.
It's just simple shit, starting with some scales and different modes, and learning to read music.
I have a shit load of song books, old guitar player and guitar world mags and a guitar theory book, and I've also got quite a few of those Andy Aledort instructional DVDs, but I try to go ahead too quickly with them and get overwhelmed, then give up.
The lessons are good because it is just one or two new things each week for me to learn and practice, so i'm loving it so far.
Nah, I'm not in a band, and I'm starting to accept that I'm not as good as I think I am, and maybe after about two or three years of lessons I might feel good enough to perform.
Just got told about extra notes in the blues scale, which i knew about, but didn't understand where to put them.
Like in a blues progression in A,D and E, how during the A7, or A chord, you can play the c# note, which is a note in those chords, but during the D chord, you can play a F# note, which is a note in the D chord, so that's something interesting I never understood before, I used to hear those notes and think "that sounds good, but how why do they play that note?", so another piece of jigsaw is added.
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Cool man.
I've started having guitar lessons with this bloke I know, and I'm really liking it.
It's just simple shit, starting with some scales and different modes, and learning to read music.
I have a shit load of song books, old guitar player and guitar world mags and a guitar theory book, and I've also got quite a few of those Andy Aledort instructional DVDs, but I try to go ahead too quickly with them and get overwhelmed, then give up.
The lessons are good because it is just one or two new things each week for me to learn and practice, so i'm loving it so far.
Have you been doing any gigging?
Not much gigging for me recently. Got some lined up in about three weeks.
Yourself?
Nah, I'm not in a band, and I'm starting to accept that I'm not as good as I think I am, and maybe after about two or three years of lessons I might feel good enough to perform.
Just got told about extra notes in the blues scale, which i knew about, but didn't understand where to put them.
Like in a blues progression in A,D and E, how during the A7, or A chord, you can play the c# note, which is a note in those chords, but during the D chord, you can play a F# note, which is a note in the D chord, so that's something interesting I never understood before, I used to hear those notes and think "that sounds good, but how why do they play that note?", so another piece of jigsaw is added.
Me and the band might be playing in 4 weeks, but our lead guitarist went all shitty and says he's selling his guitar and quitting.
You must be better than me, I've been learning for six years and I still haven't performed much.
Hopefully he comes to his senses and realises that guitar is the only way to go and we can play.
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