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Originally Posted by Highwayman
Nice!
yeah, my first instructor was pretty cool. Then he quit to play with his band full time in NYC. My second teacher was terrible. I was better than him. his first assignment for me was: write 3 chord songs. I was like "are you kidding?" We did that for a couple weeks. then I switched to a different place with a MUCH better teacher. He was the best i had. We played a lot of floyd and zeppelin. Lots of great solos. Then I stopped around 8th grade I think.
I'm all for taking lessons. I think it's important to get an understanding of theory. But if you can teach yourself and come away with a good command over the instrument, that's awesome!!! I had a friend in high school who taught himself guitar and had only been playing for a little over a year and he was NUTS! some people are just insanely gifted.
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Jesus. 8th grade. So you were like 13 or 14 then? I don't do grades.
I couldn't think of doing anything worse than playing Pink Floyd.
Zeppelin are a different story.
Black Dog and whole lottta love are fun to play.
Mine was alright with the first one he taught me A D C or something
Then I decided I wanted to tackle it again when I was 17
Went to another one and started to learn Smells Like Teen Spirit, then I realised he was teaching me the proper chords instead of the power chords version. He wanted to get me going up and down the fret board, I wanted to play it like Kurt. So that pissed me off. So yeah 4 lessons, the second lesson with the second teacher we parted ways. But they were nice to have for the 4 weeks to speak to and guidance etc. I've been playing a year in June and can read any tab and play, some take more looking at than others so I think I'm doing okay.
how long have you been playing?