Not afraid to be a fool…

[Seamus OReally]

Is there a recording of said performance that can be shared with the class?

There is, somewhere on my hard drive (unless I deleted it), a video of said performance. I skipped a month and I’m due to send a new one.

 

[iblive]

Well - depends on the lessons to some degree IMO.
Sometimes they teach you stuff you just don't care or need to learn for your playing style. Even though it is all guitar and all knowledge, no point spending mucho time on things you will ultimately deem to be useless.
Play for fun and enjoy yourself!!

I know me. I wouldn’t have stuck with lessons for an extended period. But early on in teaching myself, I learned some bad habits I had to unlearn later in life. A teacher would have helped in avoiding those habits. Although. I’d have probably learned different ones.

 

[Sargeant Preston]

Yes! I got a GREAT reply. He said, (and I’m paraphrasing from memory) that when I said I was just going to play the blues in E, he thought “oh, here we go, a bunch of blues cliches, but you played some really surprising notes, GOOD notes. You were playing some real music, not just licks… I enjoyed it.” So he told me to stick with the intermediate lessons, because that’s where you learn about tri-tone substitutions and start to expand your harmonic knowledge, which is my stated goal. But, yeah, super encouraging, a swell outcome. Over the moon, I am.

Awesome!

 

[DirtySteve]

Yes! I got a GREAT reply. He said, (and I’m paraphrasing from memory) that when I said I was just going to play the blues in E, he thought “oh, here we go, a bunch of blues cliches, but you played some really surprising notes, GOOD notes. You were playing some real music, not just licks… I enjoyed it.” So he told me to stick with the intermediate lessons, because that’s where you learn about tri-tone substitutions and start to expand your harmonic knowledge, which is my stated goal. But, yeah, super encouraging, a swell outcome. Over the moon, I am.

That's really cool!

Unless you count my grandmother showing me some basic chords and how to strum them when I got my first guitar, I've never had a lesson in my life...and it shows.

 

[Seamus OReally]

That's really cool!

Unless you count my grandmother showing me some basic chords and how to strum them when I got my first guitar, I've never had a lesson in my life...and it shows.

I’m self taught, too. This time in the Dojo is my first real course of study, and it’s kicking my butt!