Hey guys,
I just signed up for weekly lessons to make my guitar playing suck less (with the dream to one day not suck at all).
I've tries twice before (10 years ago and last year) but both turned out poorly; Teacher would play something, give me tab, tell me to practice.
I can do that with tab online.
Here's where I'm at right now:
I have very good pick control.
I know the pentatonic boxes all over the fretboard.
I know the cowboy chords.
I know the power chords.
I know I-IV-V using the above chords.
I can play several songs by learning them note-for-note but not understanding the relationship of these notes at all.(Mostly Led Zep and classic rock).
I can sit with a song and figure out what chords and notes are being played BUT is it an A A7 Amin7 Amaj ??? whaaa?
I can learn anything I see in youtube "teaching" videos, but don't understand why these notes go together.
I can't:
Play solos over 12 bar blues as I don't understand the lead notes relationship to the chord being soloed over.
Make something up that sounds like proper music.
Understand what this arpeggio business is.
Feel like I'm a guitarist as I can only copy stuff I've heard.
Hopefully some of you teachers out there can help me to "ask the right questions". I've been assured this teacher is not like the others. This is a highly regarded school and the teacher has the musical range of Blues to Rock to Neo-Classical, which works for me (I wanna be John 5
)
help!