I’ve recently recieved a guitar as an end of the school year present, but I will admit I can not play one single chord. Does anyone know where I could get lessons close to home?
Usually, music stores have a guy in a back room that gives lessons. I would ask their first.
Chances are, if they sell guitars, there’s a guy they can hook you up with for lessons. Good Luck and have fun.
I just bought a online guitar lesson program and i was wondering after i finish the online lessons should i look into getting a teacher? Will they teach more then the online lessons.
A live teacher will increase your progress so much because they can respond to your questions, correct your technique and change the direction of your lesson to fit what you need.
I want to get acoustic guitar lessons but with my current crazy time-shifting job it is impossible for me to be available during decent hours. I have heard there are video lessons on the Internet but I would like to get feedback from someone who tried it.
There are video courses available that you can pause and replay when and as often as you want. It is a definite advantage over a teacher who will be available for only an hour or so at the time and that you will have to pay by the hour.
Find out what is available and reviews of the best online guitar lessons on the http://CountryGuitarLesson.net website.
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Private lessons
Please give me the regular price hourly for a private guitar tutor.
It varies all over the United States…..call the music stores in your area and get estimates. One store may charge $15.00 for a half hour and another may charge $25.00. To have someone come to your home for guitar tuition may cost as much as $35.00. Check with you local college, sometimes the music students teach at their home or yours for a reasonable price….they don’t have their degrees yet so they don’t charge as much, they usually post on the bulletin board. Check also with you local newspaper, some advertise in there. Prices vary so much it would be difficult to quote and exact amount. Even check on google for teachers in your area, you never know. Example, guitar teacher in the Miami area, and name your neighborhood !!!!!!!! I know in my area there are plenty of them, some even have studios in their homes !!!!!!!!!
I’ve had a bass guitar and acoustic for a long time, but never really taken the time to how to learn guitar. I want to learn acoustic, but need lessons at my disposal for whenever I find time to practice. I saw that Sam Ash has some available, any suggestions?
In my estimation, any source is just about as good as any other.
However, as a beginner, I’d urge you to get at least a few live lessons to start. The online tutorials–or the books/cds/dvds–won’t be able to look at you and tell you if your fingers or hands are slightly out of place. That may seem like a little thing, but if you habituate errors in your technique, then you may wind up with serious limitations, or even repetitive motion injuries. I had a friend–a self-taught guitarist–who wound up getting carpal tunnel surgery on both wrists last summer. Don’t go that way!
About a dozen lessons from a good teacher should set you up properly. After that, you can study on your own. I’d recommend, in addition to web sites, shopping for used books, cds, and dvds at used booksellers or on ebay–if you buy something and it’s too difficult for you, just put it aside for a time and then see if you’ve caught up with it.
One other tip for a beginner–you make lots more progress if you practice several short times daily rather than one long time. Four 10-minute sessions will get you further than one 1-hour session. When I learn to play a new instrument, I put it somewhere where I will be reminded to pick it up and work on it often. After a time, you learn more and develop more stamina, and then you extend the time for practices and start to reduce their number, until you are doing an hour or more at a stretch.
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Strum Counting Crows “Mr. Jones” in this fairly EZ online acoustic guitar lesson. See the rhythm and chords used for this very cool song.
Kirk Hammett Guitar Lessons
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