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Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
I can't vouch for how good a teacher Mike Walker is, but he's a phenomenal player.
As for Truefire... I find I struggle with online stuff but admittedly I've only really used Youtube and get easily distracted. I wonder how much better I'd be if I had a structured lessonplan from Truefire or similar....not to mention the extra effort I might put in given that I'd be paying for it!
who can help.
What I would suggest is find someone who is willing to teach you what you want to learn and not what they are willing to
teach you.
The reason I say this is there are musicians who supplement there living doing lessons as a side line I know because I do this
but if I'm asked to learn a particular song on guitar or bass I will do just that but some teacher just can't be bothered or
don't have the time due to their own commitments.
You will be paying for lessons so you are entitled to learn what you want to learn and by doing this will speed up your
progress because you are learning what interests you.
My other suggestion is don't learn by using TAB I know it sounds odd but you need to develop ears so you can discern
things as basic as the difference between major or minor chords or scales.
Also if you can only play from a piece of TAB and you were somewhere and someone asked you to play it would you
say you can play it but only if you got and get that piece of TAB paper !
Finally if you think of most of big rock players who play live when was the last time you saw them reading from TAB !
Don't get me wrong rehearsing and recording using TAB or music is fine I have to do this on sessions but when I play
live I don't need it I learn what I need and can play it.
I'm an older musician and feel that there is nothing worse than band where they stand behind a row of music stands
and I always ask myself is it because they don't know what they are doing or is it because they can't be bothered to
learn the song! I'm sure many will disagree with me but that's fine. Good luck with your lessons.
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Agree with most of what @PAL referred to. If the first thing a teacher asks at the start of a lesson is "So what do you want to learn today?" you should run a mile. This shows they haven't done any prep work or bothered to find out what you're interested in learning. Usually its pretty good players who aren't necessarily good teachers and all they care about is making a bit of side money in relation to their main career. Also if they are tabbing it out during the lesson its just laziness as they haven't bothered to learn it first. Its our job to be giving students the songs they like otherwise they aren't going to be motivated to practice.
Learning by ear is very important too, a few of my students depend heavily on a piece of paper to play a song, they generally cannot read and play quick enough to keep up with it and end up getting lost as they read the wrong line or aren't anticipating the next section. Its more there to remind them after the lesson where everything is played and the correct rhythm etc.
Also make sure you learn your rhythm stuff as it equates to 90% of guitar player. Yes the solos look cool and get the limelight but for the most part you will be playing chords and rhythm. Riffs will sound terrible if they're not right rhythmically and not played with any groove/feel. So subdivisions, counting bars and stuff like that.
Hope you find a good teacher.
overlooked.
My friend Rob is also a great teacher, he was very patient with me when I thought I wanted to learn how to sweep pick. https://www.guitar-lessonsmanchester.co.uk/ the site's a bit old, but his email still works, and he's written a few guitar books too.
I had lessons from Andy over a decade ago. Lovely bloke, great player and great teacher.