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Life's too short for all the bickering on this site, so how about a positive thread?
Today, I have a guitar lesson booked (1st one in ten years since I left music school) with a top teacher, and I'm really looking forward to it.
What made you smile today?
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"Seeing" you smil, Adi, made me smile!
That and a really good fart that woke me up this morning
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Your own?Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone
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Aw, well there's my 2nd smile of the day! Good work on the fart, if you appreciate the wider ambience of the trumpet, Amazon's Alexa does some decent farts.
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Indeed so
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Good effort Adi, what music do aspire to play?
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Excuse my big ego (all guitarists have massive egos), but I can play anything I want, which becomes a problem in itself as it makes you lazy. Its a bit more conceptual study, with some technique boundary push that I'm in for. You can never stop learning and improving as a musician, that's the fun part.
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Must be brilliant...seriously.
Out of interest...can you play in the style of anyone you want...like - going back a bit - Bert Jansch to Duane Allman or Hendrix.
Please, please don’t tell me you’re too young to have heard of them!
Last edited by ramAnag; 06-05-2020 at 04:58 PM.
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Well, I'd struggle with gypsy jazz or Spanish guitar, simply through lack of experience, but most contemporary music is very accessible. Anything too technically challenging, tends not to be so popular. The harder stuff just takes longer to study, the biggest challenge is simply remembering it.
Most teaching requests are for the "older" guitarists, not many 21st century guitar heros. But yes, that stuff's pretty straight forward, certainly Duane & Jimi - because it's been done, so it's part of the technique repertoire. Ground breaking when it came out of course. I don't know much about Bert.
It's one thing to break down someone elses technique and licks, learn and replicate, than it is to come up with it in the 1st place. Especially those original heroes, they had very little to copy, and what there was, was very inaccessible.
Lockdown is a good opportunity to pick the instrument up, anyone can do it - I've even taught an almost deaf person!
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‘Anyone can do it’. Really? I think you might be doing yourself down.
Not being able to play an instrument really is one of my greatest regrets. I even had all the opportunities but wanted to put sport first, but really...can anyone learn to play guitar satisfactorily well.
Despite the well intentioned ‘anyone can do it’ mindset we all know people who are devoid of ball skills, are tone deaf or completely devoid of artistic ability. Is playing an instrument really so different? If it is...can I start with an electric rather than an acoustic guitar and what would you recommend?
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