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Do I Need A Guitar Lesson?

Practice is half the equation...the other half is education

Guitar lessons and musical education are only as important as practicing, one without the other neutralizes them both. Musical education will not make you a great guitarist, it will only provide a map on how to get to that destination. Only guitar lessons with a lot and sustained practice will take you there

Musical skills are tools, you should want to obtain as many of these tools as they will be needed to reach your goals. Real musicians do everything to maximize their techniques and constantly make progress. Anything you do to upgrade your physical and mental skills adds real value to your playing

Without reading you will never be able to learn theory, without understanding theory you will never be able to analyze music. Without being able to analyze music you will never be able to conceptualize certain harmonic or melodic techniques and make them yours

Guitar Lessons Benefits

1) If you DO have talent and have something to say as an
artist, you are not going to lose it by taking music lessons
2) If you DON'T have much natural ability for music, lessons can open up a whole world of understanding for you, they can be the doorway to new and more sophisticated abilities
3) If you are teaching yourself, lessons will increase your progress. Your music will be easier to improvise over and writing melodies to. The only limitation should be your mind
4) The more knowledge you get the more fun you will have
and the more opportunities will come available for you
5) If you understand music theory it can be applied to any other
instrument, which makes playing various instruments a lot easier

Important: If you still DON'T learn music, you must have an
understanding of music and a way to put it all on the fretboard

Why Some People DON'T Take Lessons

• Ignorance about education and learn anything. They
do not understand that ALL resources should be used
• A lot of guitar players think that sight reading and theory are
useless. That could be the case if you never want to improve
as a player and you want to play the same stuff every day
• NATURAL TALENT is the tendency to do the right thing. Some players possess more natural abilities in one skill or another. But, that is usually limited to one skill
• Some of the skills you need are: a good physical technique, a highly developed ear, the ability to improvise, creativity, songwriting skills, the ability to play in time, comprehension of reading music & music theory, good memory, the ability to play with others, etc.
NOBODY has natural talent in ALL of these areas
• They really like the idea of being "self-taught" musicians. This one especially gets people who do have talent
• Sometimes people don't have the bucks for guitar lessons
• They are scared of changing and scared of new things

Find A Teacher

A good teacher’s main goal is to provide the tools that will lead you to reach your own goals

Understand that even if you are not taking "formal" lessons, you still have a teacher, and that teacher is YOU. You must make sure the student is learning, and if not, you must do something about it

A teacher should be teaching you about chords and scales, theory, reading and even helping you learn some of your favourite tunes and some standards. If you are your own teacher, these jobs are your responsibility. Buying lessons for yourself is fulfilling the same teaching function

Teaching and learning are two sides of the same process. You must play both roles in your own growth as a guitarist

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