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I would like to bump an old thread as the user above expressed exactly how I feel. I am a few years younger than him, have played a fair bit of guitar in my youth (20+years ago). Started on a rock/electrical path, then moved into jazz/fusion, then onto classical. Started conservatory studies but never graduated. Now I would like to get back at it, but focusing again on rock/blues, as this is the music I have enjoyed the most through my entire life. I have been trying for a while, but I feel like I am trying to brush up everything at the same time and I have no structure in doing it, so I feel like a headless chicken. I would therefore need a teacher, only constraint is that it would have to be via Skype/FaceTime as it would be hard for me to reconcile with family and work commitments .
Any advice or teacher recommendations that fit the need expressed by jelly roll would be much appreciated.
thanks
I've cast my net further afield now, and have met a couple of teachers who seem to actually be interested AND know what they’re talking about. After to speaking to both of them, it seems that said sacked tutor is infamous around these parts...
I'm slowly becoming disillusioned that I could find someone who would be committed to my development as a student and really invest their time in preparing for the lessons rather than downloading tabs off the internet, while my valuable lesson time runs away...
It seems like most of these people have no clue what teaching is all about, they're just good players looking for some extra cash.
It’s disappointing. We spoke on the phone for about 30 mins before I committed to lessons with him, and I told him I wasn’t interested in learning songs, but wanted to learn the basic techniques and fundamentals of playing guitar to start with. I had my doubts when I turned up for my first lesson and he asked me which riff I wanted to learn today. I feel that I wasted my time and my money with him. I’ve got time to practice during the week, but what’s the point in practicing when he doesn’t give you anything to practice? It surely can’t be too difficult to teach with some sort of structure.
Fortunately I think I have found a couple of good ones, as I learned more in an hour than I did in 6 weeks with the other joker.
And some with root on the E string:
You need to be confident in moving those chords up and down the neck into any root note position. In the CAGED system there are three more positions to learn but the E and A shapes are sufficient for 90% of the time in my opinion. Note there are three versions of the 7th chord - it's nice to be able to pick and choose which fingering to use - they all sound subtly different.