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Bad Habits and Mistakes - I thought you were going to ask me to write a lesson book given that "bad habits and mistakes" pretty much describes my whole style.
- Zurf
ME TOO. I think thats why I get upset when he is making them and does not care, but we had fun in the end and he started getting it.
I love the line. Quit thinking and start listening.
I KNOW, RIGHT! biggest problem I have at band practice because I want to get it right so bad, and I start over thinking it.
just gonna see how the original job goes. 5 yrs ago I replaced all the tuner pegs with 16:1 replacements. OH and now, he is making excuses about practicing, "Ill do it at my own pace, not trying to play in a band" AHHHH!
As to the title topic.
If you have followed my narrative in the Guitars and Accessories section, You have read that the boys are getting back into music, one on drums and one on guitar.
I opted to get Cory started on lessons yesterday vice waiting a week. I am very glad I did. This brings up the "Bad Habits".
He has good rhythm, and was trying to expand on what he learned in band. So after a few introductions with his new instructor, they were off. Cory discovered that what he thought he knew was all the wrong things when it came to kick and 3 different things at one time. He was eager but I could see the frustration level as he was stopped and corrected. His instructor was firm but never "uncool" . So Cory learned what he was doing wrong and what new mussel memory he has to work on. I was also allowed to record the whole lesson so we would not get home and practice all week and find out what we thought sounded correct was still wrong. By 11 pm last night when I got home from my band practice, (we ate BBQ and fiddled with the acoustics lolol) He had the Kick, snare, and cymbal lesson down pretty good. Then I put him on a click. It was hard for him and he quit using it, I told him he may not notice a difference, but that I defiantly could. The instructor was not worried about it at this point since his goal is to teach new muscle memory, so I did not argue with him other than noting he played better with it. He also told Cory to practice till he hated the lesson and practice some more. Also, Like many of us he was over thinking and trying too hard. He was told to quit thinking and start listening. (I had to choke back a laugh because Jerome and Alan are ALWAYS saying that to me! 
lol )
After we left, I asked him "Would you have let me talk to you like that when yo messed up?" "Nope" LOLOL
Topic two, Is a perceived mistake really a mistake?
I bring this up because on Saturday night, I asked Cade (the older boy) if he wanted to learn some simple 3 chord songs just to get him having fun and break him out of the rut of4 other songs he remembered from his lessons 4 years ago or so.
My goal was to get him to start using more open chords and correct fingering of strings.
We started off with Simple Man. and he was catching on pretty good but in my mind was playing the Am part "wrong". I stopped and showed it to him again and he was not hearing anything different between me and him. As my insistence grew stronger on "what needed to be played" verse what he was playing started to increase he was about to just get pissed at dad and also reminded me it had been 4 yrs since he has really played anything new. So I backed off and said , ok hold on, Yes you can play it your way, but maybe try it doing the pull off this way, and WALA! He had it. Then we banged around on Needle and the spoon, Hey Joe and All along the watchtower.
What did dad learn? Some mistakes are not really important and can become someones style. Learning needs to stay fun! something I forgot while being a "Teacher" and then I also heard my own words come back at me though he did not know I have made some of the exact statements he made. This was the PALM TO FOREHEAD moment.
He said he had a good time, and I hope he did. I also had to tell him 3 of the biggest things he needed to work on was, #1 cut left hand fingernails and fret with tips not flats especially on open chords. #2 Get your elbow off your leg! LOL and #3 Use alt picking and strums #4 SLOW DOWN.
Trying to teach my kids is different, cause lets face it, they naturally want to tell you you are wrong! LOLOL For me it was a lesson in regaining patients and not trying to be THAT GUY who is hard on his kids for his own short comings, like many sideline fathers at football. I hope for my kids to love the music as much as I do, and yes I hope they play better and do more with it than I have. That is what all parents want for their kids right?
Thanks for making it down this far if you did read all that. Feel free to join the topic
Cheers Everyone!
LOLOLOL What a sweet grain of a eulogy, No sour dough in this thread! I will miss the long sorrowful saga of the bread machine blues.
OH you guys need an ad lib song for that after a few too many! LOLOL
I told him just to adjust it as best as he can, and necks are not bad actually form GFS, 50 to 90 bucks depending on your choice. http://www.guitarfetish.com/XGP-Strat-S … 17905.html this is the 90 buck one.
Return trip update:
On the way to the music store I told the boys that they could ask any of the employees all their questions as they are very customer friendly. (they know me now LOLOL)
We walked up to the service counter and the tech who also modded "Betty" was in. I introduced Cade, and showed him the AXL. "WOW I have not seen an AXL in a long time! Your neck is pretty bowed." So I told him what we wanted done and told Cade to go take a look around, he did not know he could test any guitar on the wall, so he enjoyed that AND fell in love with a black Squire strat with "DUNCAN Designed"pick ups. Not that that mattered to him, he did not even plug it in, He just loved the way it felt. I can totally relate. I told him Start saving up. He has about 1/2 of it right now.
Cory now has drums, I introduced him to the right guy, and off he went looking at sticks, cymbals, stands and then the real question,, "So, how do we tune drums?" The guy laughed and said "Its a dark art" then gave us a basic explanation. Also signed him up for some lessons so he can get a good foundation (since thats kinda what the drummer is 
. Ok my blog now posted LOLOL
He can hire another nanny just like all his other kids.
Glad it helped. and maybe the other 35 ppl who looked an made no comment LOLOL(even on here)LOL
after you get that the trick is to also switch between the 2 main shapes of teh E and Am with out lifting the bar. I forgot to put that in the vid since it was a quickie. also for a very pretty sound you can (in the E shape) lift the Bar off of all but the low e for a very pretty mode, if you do itin the Am shape put index on the A string. i can do another vid if needed.
Did you do this?,, If you don't overload the speakers it would be good, they are built to get loud with games. You would need a inline amp like a pocket rocket or one of the vox headphone amps, would be some laid back rocking.
UPdate, "Dad I REALLY LIKE YOUR GUITAR" I laughed and picked up his guitar, yep, terrible action. It will be getting a full setup and some much needed TLC. Stay tuned.
Jandle I hope this works for ya! I did not do any open chords. And for the rest of the B chord challenged here is a hint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggcDV9vqJPY
Now that he family is all together once again, my son Cade calls me at work, "Dad can I play your Strat?" (Betty)
So its time to upgrade his tobacco sunburst AXL. We shall be having the spare Brighton rocks (that I got with the Betty order) put in the middle and neck positions (will keep wiring standard on this one, not gonna worry about out of phase) and for the bridge I ordered him a Lil Killer humbucker rail @ 15K Ohms for some heavy power!
He likes the way Betty sounds, so he will really dig this new new combo. (Yea, I will too!)
Here is the Lil Killer with a link to the sound bite.
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Lil-Killer- … p_461.html
and a heavy demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQCzvQT4nGU
Chher all! sund test will follow and try to do the B4 and After.
One of my favorite songs also! Very good job. Its a hard one to nail!
That link took me to counting cars also. So I went to your page to find it, here is the good link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnXyHRGQCWc
and a good path it is! have fun !
Anyone using my page who has not friended me,,, you know you are allowed
Phil, dont worry about it, unless you are punk or pop the 3 to 4 min rule is gone thanks to CD's heck Iron Maiden's not written a 4 min song since CD's came out! LOLOL (sometimes I wish people would not over indulge though) Pink Floyd is Awesome, and it never hurts to Emulate. Its how I get inspired.
I will get my son to hold the phone and do a quick vid of what I am talking about. they it will be hand to head OHHHHHH thats it!
Im on there, easy to find, https://www.facebook.com/scott.sailer.5
That is a cool picture! if its not worth saving then nothing wrong with the artisitc expression.
Nope
Its just practice. I would just go F to C to D and back wards. If full 4 finger bar chords are hard for you just start with the root 5ths. index and ring finger. One trick I was taught to move a bar chord around is for the E shape, with out using your index finger, make an E with other 3 fingers, strum a few times and move down one fret, put index across the neck to act as your bar. You can do this with the Am shape also. Go between the open chords and the bar chords. takes time, but it will get easier.
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