You could, if you want, turn your computer on and play me a scale.
Later, when it's time, I'll do a much better job explaining scale shapes and the importance of the pentatonic - and I'll teach you how to use it far better than the guy you linked to a few days ago. I can do a better teaching job than that in plain fucking text.
I judge the people you link - very harshly. He's not very good. He has no business giving lessons. That people pay him for lessons is an absurdity. Man, when you finally get to learning to do the pentatonic, I can make sure you learn how to play an improvisational bitchin' solo - on command and without rehearsal - in any key. You can take that scale and walk it up the fretboard from the open position all the way to the 23rd fret.
Shit, you can fake a dozen Jimi Hendrix songs, after that. Your audience isn't full of guitarists. They don't know what the exact notes are supposed to be, and they don't remember all the details. You can get away with faking a whole lot of stuff - or what some people call "interpretive covers" or "my own rendition."
I'm still not your teacher. I already have a student and the formatting options for this site are abysmal. I will look for solutions.
I could turn my computer on and play you a scale, I'd be a bit embarrassed, it would be pretty bad, It wouldn't be fast and it would almost certainly contain mistakes. I'm not saying I won't but I either have to record it with my headset mic or dig out an aux cable(having not completed unpacking from moving I'm not entirely sure where a spare is to run from the amp to the mic jack. Honestly if I get tired of just practicing I might do it. I'm sure I've got a few lying around somewhere.
I bet you do, I don't know how to tell if someone is good by watching them or not yet. I hope soon I'll be able to take the scale and walk it up and down the fret board. I can't imagine that'll take too long too learn. I think the bitching solo thing is probably at least a year away(just my guess)
I don't want to fake it I want to play it how it was meant to played. I don't want to fake anything I want to be able to do it. Perfectly, everytime. That takes patience and dedication.
I would suggest pastebin, it probably would allow you to format how ever you wanted.
I would still argue you are some kind of teacher to me. Its not like you are some kind of sith lord that can only have one student at a time. If it is that well then I have a lot more questions.
I have never had more than one formal student at a time. I have had a number of students, over the many years. I've been paid to give lessons.
If you haven't noticed, I understand the guitar rather well. Gotta tell you, I put a lot of effort into it. I don't have a "music bone." I'm not "musically inclined." I'm not gifted. I'm not exceptionally talented.
I'm very, very fucking well practiced.
That's the difference.
I am none of those things. I don't have a gift for music. Nope... I've just spent a whole lot of time learning about it and practicing.
I am not a virtuoso. I'm just a guy who practiced more hours than is rational and spent far more hours learning about it than a sane person should.
So, I'm not a sith lord, or anything. I've just never felt I would do a good job if I were giving instruction to more than one person, and this was also when my time was much more spoken for. At the end of the day, I can play like I play because I put the hours in. That's really all there is to it.
Well then, even some one like me could get good then all thats required is I put in the hours. I can appreciate thinking you can only teach a single student at a time the sith lord thing was mostly my poor attempt at a joke. I've got a guitar and the rest of my life to practice I quite like the idea that anyone can do it if they practice enough.
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