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Who Taught You?

Self-Taught
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64%
Teacher
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7%
Bit Of Both
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Just wondering how many people are self taugh in here? Ive been teaching myself for bout a year, but get disheartened at times when i run out of ideas? Do you need a teacher?
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self taught technically. actually it was Guitar for Dummies that taught me. That and observation.
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Self-Taught+internet
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Swede wrote:Self-Taught+internet
and like 10 lessons (which werent worth shit)
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Appfro wrote:self taught technically. actually it was Guitar for Dummies that taught me. That and observation.
Hey i bought Guitar for Dummies, but i found it went from like, yeah this is nice and simple to like like whoa ive jumped in the deep end! But that was a while ago, i think ill go back to it. How long you been playing?
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I'm self taught, and if you ever heard me you'd know I'm not lying. Heh heh.
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Self taught through this site. Kanter's, Pat's and Ole's vids really helped. Hopefully the videos I just did help some people out.
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Nitro1515 wrote:Self taught through this site. Kanter's, Pat's and Ole's vids really helped. Hopefully the videos I just did help some people out.
personally i think your vids will help allot, Busted stuff is doing my head in already though, keep hitting the B and E! but ill keep at it.
i know you've just put them vids up, but you got any plans for anymore? :D
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Dale_Milligan wrote:
Nitro1515 wrote:Self taught through this site. Kanter's, Pat's and Ole's vids really helped. Hopefully the videos I just did help some people out.
personally i think your vids will help allot, Busted stuff is doing my head in already though, keep hitting the B and E! but ill keep at it.
i know you've just put them vids up, but you got any plans for anymore? :D
yeah I just updated them, I put up halloween, pig and spoon should be up within the hour. I'll do some others as well as the week goes on.
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I started learning by myself, my teacher has helped me advance, and my girlfriend has helped me with rhythyms and music theory.
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Swede wrote:Self-Taught+internet
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Dale_Milligan wrote:
Appfro wrote:self taught technically. actually it was Guitar for Dummies that taught me. That and observation.
Hey i bought Guitar for Dummies, but i found it went from like, yeah this is nice and simple to like like whoa ive jumped in the deep end! But that was a while ago, i think ill go back to it. How long you been playing?
you're right, it definetly did that. i've been playing for a little over 3 years and i haven't gone back to it since i lost it. what i did is i used that book to learn chords and a little bit of the pentatonic scale. then i learned songs so i could learn to switch chords. then i learned harder chords. then i bought a different book that showed me the entire pentatonic and learned that. while i was at it i learned the major scales. that's basically all i know as of right now. i'm working on modes, but that's goign to take me sitting down and trying for the life of me not to be stupid for at least a day.
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Mostly self taught, although I've learned a lot playing with other musicians and exchanging experience.
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onid41 wrote:
Swede wrote:Self-Taught+internet
I'm pretty good for self-taught and only playing for two years.
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self taught 100%
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