The Ups & Downs of reading e-mails from guitar companies...
Apr 9, 2020 11:18:38 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2020 11:18:38 GMT -5
@tbeltrans ,
I like playing different guitars, not necessarily expensive guitars, I enjoy setting them up and getting the best out of them that I can, and it can be a massive difference in tone and playability.
It's a shame but the one thing I definitely do not like and can only watch for a very short amount of time is the on line lessons that go something like " Put your first finger on the second string at the first fret, the second finger on the fourth string at the third fret, the third finger" that's it I'm off.
I wouldn't like those kinds of lessons either. The lessons I work with are more like going to grad school, where the lessons you are describing are more like early grade school. There is a HUGE difference.
From the teacher's standpoint of producing these lessons, I suppose it is much easier to teach the kind you are describing than to teach the kind I am working with, where the teacher has to be a master him or herself in order to even approach the subject matter.
On youtube, there are a lot of people teaching the same thing - how to find the notes on the fretboard, how to play the "cowboy" chords, and on and on in an ever-repeating pattern stuck at the starting line.
You have to go to the web sites of the real teachers to find the quality material, and you certainly had to have already "paid your dues" to be at a level where you can benefit from such lessons. I would certainly think that anyone who has been playing guitar for at least 10 years to be at that level (similar to graduating from 4 years of college) unless that person had no interest in really learning the craft.
There is certainly nothing wrong with a person learning a few chords and then spending all those years strumming and singing. But that is not the person these types of lessons are aimed at.
Tony