• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Topic: FOLLOWING GUITAR COURSE USEFUL OR USELESS

There is always one thing coming back in a lot of topics: the word guitar teacher.
BUT WRITING MY IMPRESSION ABOUT THIS YES OR NO TOPIC, I HOPE THAT WE CAN LEARN SOMETHING.

Is it useful to start following a guitar course, like in my case, to learn finger picking, when you play almost 30 years, and when you are absolutely no guitar hero, but reaching that level to feel no more shame to play for an audience. It seems maybe that I consider myself as a good player, I can only ask or better answer, that I am not a bad player, but that there are still so many things I can learn. Since I am member, (January 2007) I really notice a progress in the songs I play.
THANKS TO ALL THE TOPICS, THE Q&A, THE WAY OTHER PEOPLE PLAY.
I'll be honest: I want it all at the same time, and I don't think that I am alone. I learned, when I look back, a lot since my membership here.
I have developed "my own" style duringh all these years I play (30 years) that's why I ask if, having your HABITS and OWN STYLE, if it is useful to find somebody, teaching me other styles? Or is it useless. Knowing myself, I am impatient if I have to play a peace, or a technical approach of a song, in 1 week, following class. I really try to do my best, and I OWE YOU CHORDIANS A LOT, but this is the reason for this topic.

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- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
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  • Registered: 2007-05-31
  • Posts: 3

Re: FOLLOWING GUITAR COURSE USEFUL OR USELESS

The short answer is... it depends...

I have been playing for less than a year. I am attending an introductory class and I find it useful, mainly because it corrected some technical details that would have been hard to iron out later.  But much of the stuff I play is stuff I looked up online and taught myself.