Re: Biggest Mistakes Learning Guitar, Episode 1
- From: "Lon Smith" <swamped@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:56:08 GMT
I am sure that many will agree with you here and IMO there is no right
answer.
That said I offer a different perspective. I made the same discovery you
did. I OTOH feel it was time well spent. It was an epiphany when I was
finally able to look past those idiosyncrasies of the original artist and
get from them building blocks for my own style. It taught me to place
fingers so that when I make mistakes they are my idiosyncrasies instead of
glaring mistakes. My only serious regret was that I didn't take lessons and
have a teacher who could show me many of these things quicker.
"Raymo" <chorusbridge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yep, I'm still a beginner like all of us here, but what is the BIGGEST
MISTAKE in learning you've ever encountered, in your opinion? In other
words, if you could do it again, what WOULDN'T you bother spending time
on?
Mine has been learning guitar tab...Verbatim. What I'd do is find the TAB
for a song, and then try and learn it bit by painstaking bit, only to find
out that for beginners, this can be time not well spent...Because these
particular notes you're trying to emulate are, more often than not,
'mistakes' in the first place. Anyone who's read a 'good' tab of Voodoo
Chile would understand this phenomenon.
I found (imo) that the key to starting off is learning the CHORDS (and/or
basic chops) to a song...As opposed to reading intricate tab and spending
days trying to work out every little 'accidental' or inconsistency that
the original artist ended up cutting. For example, I've chatted to many a
gunslinger who've said they spent DAYS trying to learn the first four bars
of a Joe Satch song...Only to have me mention to them that they'd be
better of learning an ENTIRE Santana song (eg Black Magic Woman) in that
same time!
Working out the intricate details (eg Jimi Hendrix played this note with
his thumb, etc) is not something beginners should be focusing on. Basic
rhythm and general chords are more the key; The little details can come
later. What say you?
--
Raymo
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