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"The flake" and "I want it to be done, but I don't want to do the work guy" a lot. One only took 45 minute lessons per week, never practiced enough and expected to be a shred demon. Never going to work, I suggested to him he has to do hourly, for a slightly higher rate to make more progress. He quit soon after.
Need more of the "humble, realistic and hardworking" types! I'd say only 3 of my learners are these and they're a joy to teach. The rest make it a bit of drag cos I know they aren't putting the time into it to see the desired results, so it becomes work for me, but hey, business is business and I won't tell them to stop coming.
I plan on getting lessons after the summer but wanted to ask in your experience what kind of time you need to practice each day? Currently spend 30mins every evening before bed practicing and some nights a bit more. Have made some progress in the last 2 years in terms of smooth chord changing etc but want to develop my improvising ability. I think I would get more out of the practice with more structure...or am I fooling myself?
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Do you also find that you can now pretty much clock which type they are going to adhere to after the first lesson?
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One thing I think of is at our age we don't have runway that youngsters do - they have decades in front of them to work and improve, whereas we'd don't have the same supply of time left. So the focus of lessons can help keep us moving.
I also found lessons helped me get through that difficult first year (when 90% of new starters quit). Taking a few weeks to learn a song I'd been hearing for 30 years probably isn't something I'd have seen through on my own - but weekly checking in with my teacher (mentor/leader) kept me on track. And once I could do it I became a player who could play something, and who could learn more, not a all-fingers-and-thumbs beginner. It's a significant milestone I think.
And also, lessons with the right teacher are fun, and get you playing in front of/with another person, instead of just lonely plinking away in your bedroom.
I will go back to lessons.
I also think it's important to understand a teacher can't really _teach_ you guitar. Your learning is done alone, practicing, you still teach yourself really. The teacher's role is more guide or mentor I think. But that's an important role.
once you get them to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with them..
that they are not somehow musically disabled and that it's just a matter of enough repetition and hard work to develop the neural paths [and so motor skills] required to play...
you can start breaking down the barriers
I have a guy like this in his mid 20's.. loves guitars, rock and metal..
he came to me 3 years ago knowing nothing
now his warmup is the G major scale [3 notes per string, all 7 patterns] in quavers at 170bpm
which considering our starting point is massive..
he can play [amongst others]
Don't Believe a Word [Thin Lizzy from Live and Dangerous] including the solo along with the album
Judas Priest Genocide [from Unleashed in the East] including all solos and licks
and we're working on Judas Priest Hell Bent for Leather
all at full speed..
of all my students [all of which are more capable because they were reasonably solid players to start with] his journey has been by far the furthest
no it don't come easy to him.. but he puts in the work, sticks at it and he's absolutely loving it..
watching him grow has been and absolute joy
But yes I do notice habits such as who's more committed and stuff as the lessons go on. You get to know what they're like as a person too, e.g if they're late every week and don't apologise you know that's what they're like in real life, yet somehow they keep a job. If it takes them a whole week to do 1 little task you know guitar isn't their priority.
I don’t have a lot of free time, but paying for lessons makes me feel like I can leave the ironing and play for an hour. Honestly it’s one of the best things I’ve done.
@LeeCassidy gave a way of learning some Satch without tab:
The transport controls in YouTube have got lots better, beats needle-lifting and -dropping!