My son wants to try out playing the guitar
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Not kidding -- my best friends kids learned (for the most part) this way....Actually Melanie Hebert from WWLTV posted them playing on the morning show.
Not bad for a couple of punk ass high schoolers! They were about 12 or 13 when they started I think they are 15-16 in this video. Not their best song but the only one that was posted....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3980AHCOQ
BTW - if he sticks with it you will have many days filled with ear shattering guitar licks....you've been warned! hahaha
Not kidding -- my best friends kids learned (for the most part) this way....Actually Melanie Hebert from WWLTV posted them playing on the morning show.
Not bad for a couple of punk ass high schoolers! They were about 12 or 13 when they started I think they are 15-16 in this video. Not their best song but the only one that was posted....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3980AHCOQ
BTW - if he sticks with it you will have many days filled with ear shattering guitar licks....you've been warned! hahaha
Get a quality tuner, and keep it tuned. I've seen many beginners get frustrated by unturned guitars. And it should be the first thing learned anyway. I've had mine for 5 years and it cost maybe 10 bucks. Oh and I learned many years ago that when practicing and you get pissed off because you can't get something...walk away and come back and try it again. It may sound trivial but, trust me I learned the hard way from these 2 experiences!!!
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My advice to him:
1. Learn to tune it. Tune the big E with a tuner, tune the rest buy ear, check with the tuner.... learn the intricacies of tuners. Strings and tuners aren't perfect.... guitars aren't perfect instruments, but they are close enough.
2. Learn the basic chords. A, B, C, D, E, F, G and their minors. G, C, and D first. Start with one, strum some rhythm, then practice switching back and forth between two, then three. Go back and forth..... add more chords.... then go to 7th chords..... power chords are pretty easy to start with.... also barre chords.
3. Learn the Minor Pentatonic Scale just back and forth and in all kinds of patterns...... grow from this scale later. The Major Pentatonic Scale is the same shape, just down the neck three half steps (but the roots change).
4. Vibrato and bends..... this is the soul of playing. Start wide and slow vibrato.
Getting through the muscle memory of the chords and scales is the first hard road block. That's a whole lot of work. It's hard work. Blisters, sore fingers.... it's hard.
Good luck!
1. Learn to tune it. Tune the big E with a tuner, tune the rest buy ear, check with the tuner.... learn the intricacies of tuners. Strings and tuners aren't perfect.... guitars aren't perfect instruments, but they are close enough.
2. Learn the basic chords. A, B, C, D, E, F, G and their minors. G, C, and D first. Start with one, strum some rhythm, then practice switching back and forth between two, then three. Go back and forth..... add more chords.... then go to 7th chords..... power chords are pretty easy to start with.... also barre chords.
3. Learn the Minor Pentatonic Scale just back and forth and in all kinds of patterns...... grow from this scale later. The Major Pentatonic Scale is the same shape, just down the neck three half steps (but the roots change).
4. Vibrato and bends..... this is the soul of playing. Start wide and slow vibrato.
Getting through the muscle memory of the chords and scales is the first hard road block. That's a whole lot of work. It's hard work. Blisters, sore fingers.... it's hard.
Good luck!
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Sent you a pm. As far as lessons I would call the perfect guitar on Jones creek rd.
