What do you think of my curriculum?

Re: What do you think of my curriculum?

feeds@kickapps.com (davis) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:12:20 PST

I think that all that needs to be is that you are headed in the direction that you want to travel and your teacher is steering the ship. I'm involved with an instructor and what I do is have him teach me flatpicking fiddle tunes because that's what I want to do... learn fiddle tunes. I don't do so well with tab b/c I can't read music so it takes me forever to get the timing down. If I can hear it and see it, I can get it down fairly quickly. My biggest problem is that knowing I only have a short period of time each day, I tend to spend that time playing stuff I know instead of spending time branching out to learn other stuff.

Re: What do you think of my curriculum?

feeds@kickapps.com (DABO) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:37:21 PST

I agree, old is good. That's what I listen to mostly. I haven't tried hip-hop on my guitar yet.

Re: What do you think of my curriculum?

feeds@kickapps.com (Waldener) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:45:52 PST

Is it sad that most of the songs I know and play and listen to were made famous before I was born? Huh.... Never even thought about it....

Re: What do you think of my curriculum?

feeds@kickapps.com (dmcowles) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:58:45 PST

DABO wrote:
.. One of the things that frustrates me a little, is that when someone asks me to play something, I can only play something old. Playing pentatonic scales for a friend doesn't really cut it.
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You mean there's something other than "old" ????

Re: What do you think of my curriculum?

feeds@kickapps.com (DABO) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:56:59 PST

Thanks for the reassurance, Dave. One of the things that frustrates me a little, is that when someone asks me to play something, I can only play something old. Playing pentatonic scales for a friend doesn't really cut it.

DAB

Re: What do you think of my curriculum?

feeds@kickapps.com (dmcowles) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:30:30 PST

The key to answering your question is simply in your statement that you are happy with what you're learning, and happy with your teacher. IMO, if he has you learning minor pentatonic scales and movable chord shapes, etc., you are definitely getting your money's worth.

What do you think of my curriculum?

feeds@kickapps.com (DABO) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:32:48 PST

I’ve been taking guitar lessons for a couple of months now. I’ve had five lessons, once every two weeks. I went into the lessons knowing “cowboy” chords and barre chords, how to do some basic fingerpicking, and how to play a number of old folk standards. I had played guitar with friends 30 or so years ago – John Denver, Bob Dylan, stuff like that. I never learned music theory.

I love to sing, but don’t sing very well, so I decided I wanted to learn to play more “instrumentally”. I found a teacher locally, whose style I like and who has experience teaching. FYI, here’s a couple of YouTube videos of him:

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