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    Default anyone ever taken guitar lessons before?

    experiences? were they worth the money? im thinking of signing up for some.

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    when i was like 11 i did. its was fun then, but now that im older i dont think i would. im sure there r plenty of free lessons u can watch on youtube. its just harder to stay motivated by ur self, but if i can make ur self sit down and practice(which is pretty much what a lesson is) then u can do it on ur own.

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    i'm still here, ya wank. do you fink i wan post all the time? this is a board full of skate wankers, the fuck you think i want to hang out all the time??? fuck off.

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    well, ive been playing for a year i just need some pointers on technique and the more technical aspects that you can't really learn from a youtube video. im the equivalent of the kid that can 540 kindgrind but can't make a soul grind look good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NOEL GALLAGHER
    i'm still here, ya wank. do you fink i wan post all the time? this is a board full of skate wankers, the fuck you think i want to hang out all the time??? fuck off.

    haha god i love that so much.

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    just start to learn scales and learn to play as many songs as possible. Once u understand scales and playing in key better u will be amazed how much better u can get. just pick a few songs out a week and play them. play along to make sure ur getting the strumming right and the picking. and keep playing different style of songs to round ur self out. when i was young and took lessons all i cared about was punk shit, playing power chords all day, so thats all i was good at for a while. round ur self out now so ull be better in a year or 2, and not stuck with 1 style.

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    yeah, but there's a lot of little stuff im bad at that is the result of poor technique that a teacher can help work out with me. i can play a lot of songs but they never sound right.

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    well if u think a lesson would really help go for it. shouldnt cost too much and u only gotta take a few to see if they suck or not.
    just practice getting ur strumming down and the little things like palm muting and hammer ons. These little things r what make a song sound unique that u might not be doing, and y u cant get ur playing to sound like what u hear. ull get faster as time goes, its just a matter of doing the little stuff if ur trying to recreate the sound of a certain song.

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    thanks greg. put on some pants though, your legs look like robin williams' knuckles.

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    play drums

    you can teach yourself
    A TO THE MUTHA FUCKIN K

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    no pants ever!!!! only when i work do i wear jeans. other wise i wear basketball shorts every where! maybe in tally this weekend ill get a sick pic and have a mew sig!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bazodazo
    play drums

    you can teach yourself
    drums cool, but guitar just appeals to me much more.

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    teach yourself it's a lot more fun

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    Quote Originally Posted by greg is cool
    no pants ever!!!! only when i work do i wear jeans. other wise i wear basketball shorts every where! maybe in tally this weekend ill get a sick pic and have a mew sig!
    ever consider running shorts?

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    I'm surprised at the lack of red text in this here guitar thread.

    [quote:"Special ED"]....you fail at be-mag.[/quote]

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    I just taught myself, I've always hated lessons, but maybe if you tell me what some of the things you have trouble with are I could help a bit.

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    i took lessons for like 7 years, only because that was the only way my parents would buy me nice guitars and amps and shit, for fear i would lose interest

    i still play just as much as ever, and looking back there's no way i could say the lessons didn't help a ton

    everyone learns differently though

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    Quote Originally Posted by eyes to see
    teach yourself it's a lot more fun
    thats what i did. i think you would understand the guitar as much if you had lessons. well thats dumb you totally would, but when you figure the shit out yourself its much more rewarding

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    Learn by yourself, only way you will get your own sound


    bazodazo and Espen rules all

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kent
    Learn by yourself, only way you will get your own sound
    That's not true, lessons could give you a head start on tricks and techniques that you may have trouble with from the start. That's like saying that if someone shows you the way to do a soul grind that you will do a soul grind with the same style as them. Although I do think there is something great to be said for figuring things out on your own.

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