Some good reasons for taking guitar lessons with a private teacher?
Before there were guitar lesson CD's, one could buy videocassettes to learn to play guitar, and before that there were a choice of books.
The other more expensive option was to enlist the help of a guitar teacher. Personally, I am all for the idea of going to a guitar teacher for lessons.
When I first began to play guitar, the choice of learning materials where books and private tuition. I used both.
There are a number of good reasons to choose a private guitar teacher, amongst other things,
a guitar teacher will give you lessons to complete before your next class. This is good for discipline, so you don't goof off.
A good guitar teacher is great for motivation, especially when you get a positive response for the work you've already done.
Sitting with a guitar teacher for an hour, while you run over the lessons, can give you more than just the lesson itself as often they have great advice to give.
When you develop a positive relationship with a teacher, your desire to please them can have a good effect on your performance.
Another good thing is that any questions you have during the week can be answered in your next lesson.
Some facts about famous guitarists, and how they learnt to play guitar.
Many famous guitarists are self taught, sure there's guys like Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert etc, who went either to the Berkley school of music
or the Guitar institute of technology (GIT), but there's also guys like Eddie Van Halen who learned by slowing down old Clapton records and learning the licks.
I must say though that the guys who taught themselves how to play, seem to have a more distinct and recognizable style.
The list of guitarists who are self taught reads like a who's who of rock guitar legends, however, there are many excellent guitarists who went to schools.
Steve Vai, oddly enough, was a student of Joe Satriani. Who's a better guitarist? I'll let you decide.
Guitar lessons, who needs them?
The short answer is that you do. You see, all these famous self taught guitarists had to learn something from somewhere, whether it's Eddie working out those Eric Clapton solo's or a fully fledged and technically capable guitarist like Steve Vai, they all needed the right information to work with.
Somebody had to show them something.
If you want to learn guitar, the safest way is to get the right training. It's something we all instinctively know.
Those guitar greats are very talented people, and you may be one too, but they all had to learn their scales, chords, basic music theory etc.
To cut a long story short, everyone got guitar lessons from somewhere.
My heartfelt recommendation.
As I mentioned earlier, I personally have used both guitar instruction media and private tuition, but to be perfectly honest, my greatest advances as a guitarist have come from self-tutoring via books and video.
My guitar teacher taught me for six months, but I was hungry for knowledge and needed to learn what I specifically wanted to play. I was starting a band and didn’t have time to wait, while going along with lessons that weren’t tailored to my specific need.
The cost of a how to play electric guitar DVD (or acoustic guitar for that matter) is way less than one would pay for a few private lessons, and covers a heck of a lot more.
The interactivity of computer CD roms and DVD’s make learning the guitar so much easier nowadays, and successfully emulate the presence of a live teacher.
So there you have it, learn from them both.
By the way, you never stop learning how to play the guitar, you just rest in-between lessons.
One of my very good friends is a full time guitar teacher. When I asked him whether he felt threatened by all the guitar instruction media that’s available, his reply was “not at all”. He understands the value of his service, and supports the idea of people learning from other sources as well.
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