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A few years ago, I started teaching myself some fingerpicking stuff from Stefan Grossman's country blues DVDs and as an electric player of 25+ years experience (at the time) I found it really quite challenging as it's all in the right hand, whereas electric, at least for me, is mostly about the left hand.
In terms of where I want to be, the answer is I want to be as well rounded a guitarist as possible, across both instruments.
If I had to sum it in a sentence I would say ‘if John Mayer can do it I want to be able to do it’ (although Katy Perry might not be so keen)
But if I had to nail my colours to the mast and had to choose one or the other to save my life I’d probably lean towards the electric so I think it makes sense to start there.
Thankfully I didn’t go. The villa game was just one game too many (especially after snatching defeat from the jaws of victory vs Wolves).
We've got players all over the pitch in the wrong positions where we have so many injuries so it’s remarkable we’ve done as well as we have until now. You could see we were completely running on empty from the get go vs Villa, and after 8 games in 30 days (mostly played with the same XI out of nevessity) no real surprise!
Man C an impossible task - to have one legged ties all the way through the competition and then a two legged semi final is really unfair IMO - it just panders to the big clubs and completely kills any chance of an upset. To go toe to toe with a side of that quality for one leg would be a Herculean feat but to do it over two legs? No chance.
I just hope the tie isn’t completely dead when it comes back here in two weeks. It’ll be superb to see us in a semi final no matter what, but will take the gloss off it to be 6-0 down going into the second leg!!
Most of the learners I get can already normally play, albeit very basic (e.g a few chords, 1 scale and 1 strumming pattern). They've had that for years and usually struggle with different rhythm patterns, knowledge of the fretboard and getting through a basic chord chart.
As I've developed myself over the years by using different grades this has taught me to always tailor material to the level of the learner. In the past I had the guilty mistake of giving people stuff way beyond their level, them getting frustrated and ultimately quitting.
So now if there's a song I know they can't play what the original part is I simplify it whether its less strums or notes, so it still allows them to play along but with an easier part.
Having structure and motivation are the big things my students say, and my longest serving one is in his 8th year. I reckon he's shaved off 5 years of frustration by doing things properly from day 1. He's turning into a beast on that guitar!
The day will come when he'll decide he's learnt enough to go his own way, but my bank account doesn't want that day to come!
I'm going for either @BRISTOL86 's found out they're already a guitar virtuoso and has been out partying all night to celebrate, or the tutor turned out to be a Hannibal Lecter devotee, and he's now sitting eating bits of his own brain...
It was really good thanks. Guy had a pre prepared lesson plan, tailored to me based on a couple of videos I’d sent him during our initial contact.
He’d even selected a song to look at (Parisienne Walkways) based on what he thought I’d like from the songs I wasn’t playing on those videos and because it linked in nicely to what he’d identified as being something to work on (vibrato and bends)
Very optimistic that I’m on to a winner and can see us getting on well
Planning on lessons for this year as well, though more for overall stuff, theory, etc..
Investing gear money into lessons is a brilliant idea though, best of luck with it.
Investing gear money into lessons is a brilliant idea though, best of luck with it.