Marley88
First Lieutenant   Posts: 1 Registered: 10/12/2006 Status: Offline
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 posted on 10/12/2006 at 23:44 |
Hi Guys. My name is Joe...New here, and new at guitar. Hope to have some
fun and get help on this forum. One question I have right now is I just
recently started guitar lessons, when I started my teacher asked me, "what
can i do for you, what do you want to learn?" I told him I want to be able
to go buy books of my favorite artists and now how to play them. Only
thing is he started teaching me notes instead of tabs (most books are
written in tabs). Do you have to learn notes before you learn Tabs? Is
that how most of your guitar teachers showed you guys?
Thanks
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brian
Moderator   Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 10/13/2006 at 09:34, Reply 1 |
If your just starting you should be learning the basic chords starting with
open chords in the 1st position C,D,G,Dm,Am etc.... Bar Chords,Pentatonic
Scales etc...
Learning to read music is a good thing and I recommend it. Tabs are good to
learn and it's alot easier then reading music, but their not as exact.
Music Notation is a langauge just like English and once you learn it the
will be able to communicate with other musicians more effectively.
I always teach the technical "music theory" then end with some basic tunes
the student knows using this theory. You got to have fun because that's
what playing guitar is all about!
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ricoboc
Moderator  Posts: 278 Registered: 4/27/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 10/26/2006 at 04:22, Reply 2 |
Brian,
That was good advise. Have fun above all.
First I teach with a basic understanding of intervals. I feel this is the
most important thing when learning how theory is put together.
Learning the hows and whys are key. Once a young player understands how an
interval becomes augmented,diminished, or minored. Everything else will
make much more sense.
I want to write an article about this. Let me know what you think.
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