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Finally starting lessons
- Thread starter oldrookie
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I also agree that there are benefits of being older. Unlike when I was younger I understand that nothing comes easy. It all takes hard work. I wish I had understood this when I was younger. When I was younger things came pretty easy for me and I relied on that rather then working for things. I was good at most things but not great. I want to be great so lots of extra work will be required.
Edit: I want appologize if this is incoherent babbling. I work 12hr rotating shiftwork and this was written at the end of a set of nights. Not really at my best then.
Edit: I want appologize if this is incoherent babbling. I work 12hr rotating shiftwork and this was written at the end of a set of nights. Not really at my best then.
First lesson today. Extremely well organized and presented. Started at the beginning.
Some of it was stuff I had already figured out, but a lot of it was information that brought clarity to theory I had read, but didn't really understand.
Gave me a song to work on apreggios.
I have religiously avoided open strings because I don't like having to fight to mute them, but he has me working using only open string patterns.
All in all, very interesting and exciting. Wish I had done it two years ago.
Some of it was stuff I had already figured out, but a lot of it was information that brought clarity to theory I had read, but didn't really understand.
Gave me a song to work on apreggios.
I have religiously avoided open strings because I don't like having to fight to mute them, but he has me working using only open string patterns.
All in all, very interesting and exciting. Wish I had done it two years ago.
Sounds like you have a good instructor already. It is my opinion that formal lessons should be well organized. I like my instructor but one complaint I do have is that he does not seem very organized. In fact I dont think he has any idea what we are going to go over before the lesson. That has some advantages in the sense that we don't waste much time with stuff I'm comfortable with but I wish he had a more focused approach.
He was a touring pro for 20 years. Said the business dried up after 9/11 (was supposed to leave on a European tour 9/13.) Said the business in the U.S. dried up due to the number of bands willing to to work for beer and bring their friends.
He never had another job--literally never filled out a job application. Figured out he needed a process to teach what he knew and started figure it out.
He never had another job--literally never filled out a job application. Figured out he needed a process to teach what he knew and started figure it out.
