I found this video because I'm just picking up electric guitar after playing acoustic for about a decade, and I was pressing too hard. The guy who setup my new guitar decided to put flat wound strings on it for me. It's helped.
I've been having a lot of thoughts on this topic as of recent. I started my guitar journey when I was a child with an acoustic guitar and a teacher. I tried it a couple of times actually and each time my desire to return to the teacher diminished. I wanted to be good at guitar but I didn't want to learn. Now I grabbed an electric guitar and started practicing by myself. I've been going strong for a couple of months and each day I'm more and more motivated, I still feel like I'm making good daily progress. Now I would like to go to a teacher either when I hit a plateu or when I want to learn something specific. For the sake of an example, I would go to a metal player to teach me metal, but I won't go to a teacher for the sake of having a teacher.
@@punkdoge that’s awesome that you started making progress recently! Playing electric might have something to do with it. It’s easier, and many people (me included) find it more exciting). Going to a teacher just for a season can be a good idea, too. There’s always something new to learn-it never ends!
Yes, having lessons with an actual teacher is way better. Online pre recorded lessons though cheap (or free if you use youtube) doesnt help you learn proper techneque. I used to use GuitarTricks for online lessons and picked up so many bad habbits, since were was no actual teacher to point them out and show me correct way of doing things.
@@ilmisxx2 True, there might be good online resources however I personally saw way more improvement of 1 year with teacher's guidance when with 2 years of online prerecorded lessons.
@@ilmisxx2 Problem with trying to figure things out on your own you end up watching tons of videos about guitar with different opinions on same subject that you no longer know which advice to follow. You get overloaded by different information. So end up jumping from advice to advice. Also there is no structure or plan you just wing it. Prerecorded lesson courses do address the structure of you learning guitar, but what if you have a question? Hope it will be somewhere in that course covered? And if not what when? Google it and fall into the rabbit hole of "end up watching tons of videos about guitar with different opinions on same subject that you no longer know which advice to follow"? "talented people who progress with prerecorded lessons and do not really need lessons anymore after a 6 months or a year do not go to guitar teachers" yeah and those talents with every single bad practice create youtube channels and sell their super special course which is THE ONE you should be learning, after all they are the talented ones whose special farts should be put in jars and sold as merch... Let me tell you about being self taught, its great if you learn things correct way if not you end up like a lot of junior devs I get "pleasure" of working with every possible bad practice possible and they are more of nuisance when help in a project. I believe thats true in music as well. Great if you learned thing properly on your own if not you are a headache to people who try to work with you.
There are great pre-recorded lessons out there that teach great technique, for sure. And some people are indeed self-motivated enough (or aren’t otherwise busy doing adult things) not to need accountability from another person. But, I do think many, probably most people benefit from live lessons for the reasons I laid out in the video (which go beyond accountability). Re: charlatans cashing in on beginners, I think the same goes for online, prerecorded lessons. It can be tough to sort through who to listen to, whether the lessons are pre-recorded or live.
@@ilmisxx2 I think even very talented people still benefit from lessons. I read once that Eric Johnson seeks out lessons from different teachers when he tours.
I kinda thought you were going to give some guitar specific reasons why in person lessons are important, not just a general list of reasons that would apply yo taking lessons about anything. Like say a list of habits at home learners develop that lessons can help you avoid.
My reasons definitely apply to all music lessons. I teach other instruments other than guitar, too, but guitar is my main instrument, hence the focus on guitar and the specific guitar-related examples.
I found this video because I'm just picking up electric guitar after playing acoustic for about a decade, and I was pressing too hard. The guy who setup my new guitar decided to put flat wound strings on it for me. It's helped.
I've been having a lot of thoughts on this topic as of recent. I started my guitar journey when I was a child with an acoustic guitar and a teacher. I tried it a couple of times actually and each time my desire to return to the teacher diminished. I wanted to be good at guitar but I didn't want to learn. Now I grabbed an electric guitar and started practicing by myself. I've been going strong for a couple of months and each day I'm more and more motivated, I still feel like I'm making good daily progress. Now I would like to go to a teacher either when I hit a plateu or when I want to learn something specific. For the sake of an example, I would go to a metal player to teach me metal, but I won't go to a teacher for the sake of having a teacher.
@@punkdoge that’s awesome that you started making progress recently! Playing electric might have something to do with it. It’s easier, and many people (me included) find it more exciting).
Going to a teacher just for a season can be a good idea, too. There’s always something new to learn-it never ends!
Yes, having lessons with an actual teacher is way better. Online pre recorded lessons though cheap (or free if you use youtube) doesnt help you learn proper techneque. I used to use GuitarTricks for online lessons and picked up so many bad habbits, since were was no actual teacher to point them out and show me correct way of doing things.
@@ilmisxx2 True, there might be good online resources however I personally saw way more improvement of 1 year with teacher's guidance when with 2 years of online prerecorded lessons.
@@ilmisxx2 Problem with trying to figure things out on your own you end up watching tons of videos about guitar with different opinions on same subject that you no longer know which advice to follow. You get overloaded by different information. So end up jumping from advice to advice. Also there is no structure or plan you just wing it. Prerecorded lesson courses do address the structure of you learning guitar, but what if you have a question? Hope it will be somewhere in that course covered? And if not what when? Google it and fall into the rabbit hole of "end up watching tons of videos about guitar with different opinions on same subject that you no longer know which advice to follow"?
"talented people who progress with prerecorded lessons and do not really need lessons anymore after a 6 months or a year do not go to guitar teachers" yeah and those talents with every single bad practice create youtube channels and sell their super special course which is THE ONE you should be learning, after all they are the talented ones whose special farts should be put in jars and sold as merch...
Let me tell you about being self taught, its great if you learn things correct way if not you end up like a lot of junior devs I get "pleasure" of working with every possible bad practice possible and they are more of nuisance when help in a project. I believe thats true in music as well. Great if you learned thing properly on your own if not you are a headache to people who try to work with you.
There are great pre-recorded lessons out there that teach great technique, for sure. And some people are indeed self-motivated enough (or aren’t otherwise busy doing adult things) not to need accountability from another person. But, I do think many, probably most people benefit from live lessons for the reasons I laid out in the video (which go beyond accountability).
Re: charlatans cashing in on beginners, I think the same goes for online, prerecorded lessons. It can be tough to sort through who to listen to, whether the lessons are pre-recorded or live.
@@ilmisxx2 I think even very talented people still benefit from lessons. I read once that Eric Johnson seeks out lessons from different teachers when he tours.
I kinda thought you were going to give some guitar specific reasons why in person lessons are important, not just a general list of reasons that would apply yo taking lessons about anything. Like say a list of habits at home learners develop that lessons can help you avoid.
My reasons definitely apply to all music lessons. I teach other instruments other than guitar, too, but guitar is my main instrument, hence the focus on guitar and the specific guitar-related examples.
Harris voter
@@mikeviall811 lol what?
@ Trump won. The self-hating juvenile giggles will now recede into history.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
@@fretphilosophy Likely
Dude the election ended 78 days ago