Guitar Tabs and Online Guitar Lessons Made a Guitar Player out of Me.
When I first started to play the guitar I took lessons from a local guitar teacher with a really good reputation. Sure enough not only was he a good teacher, but he is one of the great guitar players, I mean with the Eric Clapton class of skills. I took lessons from him for three years. He taught me so much of the normal beginners stuff which included an understanding of scales and modes it became old after a while, I learned them real well, time to move on. The things that he taught me that were most important to me were some Jim Hendrix techniques that seemingly were not available to most folks because not too many people studied Hendrix enough to duplicate his techniques.
I practiced every day for over an 2 hours (I still play, practice every day for a few hours) , it took years, literally, to even get good enough at the Hendrix maneuvers to make sense out of them. I still practiced what he gave me in our lessons. The problem was that I needed variety. I wanted to be a bluesman, which I can say I am now, but I needed other resources to get there.
After scouring every resource known to mankind I found several internet sites that offered excellent guitar tabs and a full line and variety of online guitar lessons. In essence, I probably would have learned to play more songs if I had started my guitar endeavor using online guitar lessons and learning to read guitar tabs first. Richard does not teach songs or how to read music. Don’t get me wrong, Richard taught me well and I don’t regret a second of his lessons, in fact we became really good friends anyway. I know he is impressed with my abilities now, and he is proud to claim he was the one who taught me, that is fine, I love Richard and don’t ever want to hurt his feelings.
The truth is that once I started to use some of the resources from the best guitar tabs and online guitar lessons site, my abilities stared to develop like weeds growing in your yard. The most important thing I can say is that by learning some of the oldies like Susie Q, Sweet Home Alabama, Mustang Sally, Dazed and Confused and many more songs that had a much different rhythm than the Blues, my Blues playing started to develop so fast, it was kinda freaky.
My point is that don’t put all your eggs in one basket, diversify, learn every style of guitar playing available and enjoy the diversity and growth I did when I branched out in terms of learning to read guitar tabs and using the specific online guitar lessons I used. BTW: Cost was not an issue for me, but online lessons cost a fraction of what I payed to go to guitar lessons weekly for three years, and the online guitar lessons are taught by guitar players as good and knowledgeable as Richard. They also teach songs and offer really good warm-up exercises, which I think are absolutely mandatory strategies to use before you get to playing some songs.
