Who's Had Formal Lessons For Guitar? |
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Jul 7 2008, 12:38 AM
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I've never taken any formal lessons. I had around 4-5 40 minute learning-sessions with a really great player in the very early 90ies though, but nothing apart from that.
I managed to learn most of what i know by myself, but that approach has left me with a few bad playing habbits that i'm still trying to get rid of 
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Jul 7 2008, 01:46 AM
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I took classical guitar lessons for around 8 years at school - learned a lot of theory and was generally immersed in a music scene, played in school concerts etc - was a great way to learn!
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Jul 7 2008, 10:49 AM
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I never had formal music education, not school, not private.
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Jul 7 2008, 12:02 PM
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No formal lessons for me either - books, internet, videos.
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Jul 7 2008, 12:18 PM
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When i took music last year in school- they wouldnt teach me much theory-wise (i still knew nothing), only cadances and also some relative minor/major stuff, also seeing what key a song is in by the sharps/flats. Literally all we'd do is listen to baroque music and try to reckognise what instruments were playing.
Very very boring year that was. They also referred me on to a guitar teacher to prepare for the practical exam, he hand me a sheet of paper with loads of chords and asked me to learn them. I photocopied them and never returned- if that is what teaching is all about then im surprised if theres ever been a student that learned. I still have that shord sheet tho  Hopefully this winter i will be joining the likes of Gen (aswell as others i hear) and be taking an hour long guitar lesson with Paul Gilbert as part of his VIP ticket offer. Still waiting for my confirmation email though  http://www.paulgilbert.com/viptickets.html But i've learned what i know from videos, cds, books, the internet and sometimes other musicians too. |
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Jul 7 2008, 01:52 PM
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no, but I want to as soon as possible.
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Jul 8 2008, 12:30 AM
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I had some brief lessons ages ago, but for the price I felt it wasn't really worth it - i was learning more at home with books/internet.
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Jul 8 2008, 12:54 AM
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I head 4 years of formal music training in Music High School
and 1 year at Music Academy. The problem is,whole system is old Russian so I didn't learn a lot about contemporary music,actually I learned nothing about it. It's mostly Baroque,Classical period etc. But I learned how to read notation,lots of basic music theory, also Solfeggio (which I found like most important class) and some other things. As for todays music,guitar and playing, I've learned from tapes,listening,some old VHSs and of course using the internet A LOT lately. 
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Jul 8 2008, 04:08 AM
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i took lessons for 2 years n learned chords scales songs etc, basic stuff. it was good start but gmc helped me learn more faster n better.
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