guitar lessons??

[ELVIS]

as stated, he is 8. he is in the dual language program at school, on the honor roll, has jiu jitsu 4 days a week, and gymnastics 2 days. We arent looking to take on another full time hobby, rather learn to pick on the guitar for fun in his very limited down time. i appreciate all the input, and just wanted to state what he/I are looking to get out of this.

god bless.

[Ruffdaddy]

as stated, he is 8. he is in the dual language program at school, on the honor roll, has jiu jitsu 4 days a week, and gymnastics 2 days. We arent looking to take on another full time hobby, rather learn to pick on the guitar for fun in his very limited down time. i appreciate all the input, and just wanted to state what he/I are looking to get out of this.

god bless.

Cool...tabs will be nearly instant BTW.

So this gymnastics thing...he doing this for fighting?

[ELVIS]

Cool...tabs will be nearly instant BTW.

So this gymnastics thing...he doing this for fighting?

haha! yes. its for bjj. its actually called strength and flexibility class.

god bless.

[Cobraman]

What does he want to play? He into the ??

[racrguy]

I've been playing bass since I was in high school and can read tabs and learn a song by ear, I wish I knew more about the fundamentals of the instrument (how to read sheet music and theory.) At his age I'd start him on tabs and put him into band classes at school (should start in middle school) to learn the fundamentals, IMO.

[Steve@CJPP]

My daughter got a crazy bug one day and decided she wanted a guitar, don't know why but I guess it's better than wanting some random shit that serves no purpose so she collected all her money and mom took her to Guitar Center and got her a Fender Squire Starter Kit. Well the dvd that comes with that is dated and blah, so I bought her Rock Smith 2014 for the PS4 and wow that is got to be the best learning tool I have ever seen. They claim to be able to teach you to play the guitar in 60 days I believe as long as you practice an hour a day.

I helped her get it set up and it even helps you tune your guitar. The lessons are amazing and all about you learning the current lesson before allowing you to move on to the next. The list of songs it huge and there are games that help you increase your skill as well. You can get this on both consoles as well as PC. It's about $70 and comes with a modified amp cable to plug into your device.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Rocksmithgame/featured

[Cobraman]

I've been playing bass since I was in high school and can read tabs and learn a song by ear, I wish I knew more about the fundamentals of the instrument (how to read sheet music and theory.) At his age I'd start him on tabs and put him into band classes at school (should start in middle school) to learn the fundamentals, IMO.

What kind of stuff do you play?

[racrguy]

What kind of stuff do you play?

The staples, mostly: Rock/metal, blues and country, some VERY limited funk, as I haven't quite figured out the mechanics of slap and pop to make it sound good.

[Cobraman]

The staples, mostly: Rock/metal, blues and country, some VERY limited funk, as I haven't quite figured out the mechanics of slap and pop to make it sound good.

We shall jam

[Rreemo]

My family has a musical background, and I remember from a very early age that guitar was something that I was always fascinated with. My older brother gave me a guitar for my birthday when I was in the 5th grade, and at that time I had already taken piano lessons for a couple years prior....which did give me some basic understanding of musical concepts. However, when I got that first guitar it didn't really seem to apply...at first. Back then, of course, we didn't have the internet or any video games beyond Atari...so I was pretty much on my own. My Mom was a singer who did a lot of session work in a couple studios as-well-as being in more bands than I can remember. She had a bunch of musician friends that used to come around a lot, and several of them taught me basic stuff to get me going, but I was mostly left playing by ear otherwise. I would sit for hours and follow along with records until I could pick up the rhythm line. I remember a point where things just started to click, like I had gotten over the hump, and could pick up and follow along with just about anything that I heard. However, lead riffs were a whole different story. At that point I started taking some lessons whenever we could afford them, and I recall that my teacher was impressed with how well I had developed my own picking skills, and he used to also say that I had an impressive ear.

Through those lessons, learning pentatonic blues scales was probably the next biggest hump that I got over....b/c pretty much all rock & roll leads are based off of those. However, much different from the way that I taught myself rhythm, I didn't follow existing songs to learn the lead tracks....I would play a song on the stereo and just sit and try to put a lead track to it on my own. I eventually got a pretty cool Roland keyboard that had bass, drums, rhythm guitar and keyboard loops in it, and I would set my own loops and then just rip a lead along with it....that was really good practice. The same as with rhythm, I eventually got to a point where I could just listen to a lead track and then follow it.

I've had a couple forced breaks in playing over the years, but I'm happy to say that even today, I'm sitting here in my home office next to my old 85' Charvel, Strat, and Takamine. My tastes have changed a lot over the years, but I still like to crank some Dokken or Metallica from time-to-time....especially after a long day.

[God]

I can play Stairway to Heaven!

[racrguy]

I can play Stairway to Heaven!

White trash anthem of the world! That's what I'm tom'bout.

[BMCSean]

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