Online Guitar lessons

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Are there any that are worth the effort? I know that nothing can replace a live instructor, but time and money contraints forbid it at this time. I really need to learn my way around this instrument. Although I had an ABSOFREAKINLUTELY FANTABULOUS weekend, I was a bit embarrassed that one year down the road my guitar chops were virtually useless on anything that wasn't ridiculously simple (knockin' on heavens door, etc.) or some cheesy tune that I wrote. I need to get to the point where I can listen and watch a couple bars and dive into a jam confident that I know where and what the changes are. Help!
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VTgreen81 said:
Are there any that are worth the effort? I know that nothing can replace a live instructor, but time and money contraints forbid it at this time. I really need to learn my way around this instrument. Although I had an ABSOFREAKINLUTELY FANTABULOUS weekend, I was a bit embarrassed that one year down the road my guitar chops were virtually useless on anything that wasn't ridiculously simple (knockin' on heavens door, etc.) or some cheesy tune that I wrote. I need to get to the point where I can listen and watch a couple bars and dive into a jam confident that I know where and what the changes are. Help!
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Dan,

Your playing was NOT cheesy!

I have one rule that I follow if I jam with someone. If I don't know the chords to it....I don't play chords. I'll go for single line notes and comp chords.

In addition to books or online lessons, the best way to learn (IMHO) and become comfortable is to jam along with records, tapes, CDs, or radio. And I mean...jam with all types of music.

my .02
 
VTgreen81 said:
Are there any that are worth the effort? I know that nothing can replace a live instructor, but time and money contraints forbid it at this time. I really need to learn my way around this instrument. Although I had an ABSOFREAKINLUTELY FANTABULOUS weekend, I was a bit embarrassed that one year down the road my guitar chops were virtually useless on anything that wasn't ridiculously simple (knockin' on heavens door, etc.) or some cheesy tune that I wrote. I need to get to the point where I can listen and watch a couple bars and dive into a jam confident that I know where and what the changes are. Help!
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Hey VT.....I bought my wife some lessons from Emedia music...the beginner, Intermediate, and Blues one....they are about $50, and seem pretty good to me. Lots of songs, and easy to follow. You are way beyond the beginner, but might go look at the Intermediate..

Just a thought man... :D
 
I personally have been renting carious instructional DVDs from netflicks and...er... backling them up for netflick incase they ever need it.

lots of these are super lame, but you can pick up some good stuff from them.

Daav
 
Hey VT, when you would first sit down on the drums you would do what looked like a warm up to get your limbs moving, but it sounded cool. It was all over the kit.

Do you have any idea what I'm talking about, and if so, could you slow it down and record it for me? I need to learn how to play it.
 
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Hey VT, when you would first sit down on the drums you would do what looked like a warm up to get your limbs moving, but it sounded cool. It was all over the kit.

Do you have any idea what I'm talking about, and if so, could you slow it down and record it for me? I need to learn how to play it.
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This is strange, but I understand what you're saying to VT. ;)
 
It's nothing set really, just a couple bars of a randomly chosen ostinato with my feet to aclimate to the pedals and a couple bars of triplets around the toms to loosen my wrists, but it's really all random and usually done unconciously. Also what you might have heard was me struggling with an independant coordination exercise that I used to have down and am trying to get back. I think I farted around with that several times over the weekend.
 
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