blues_n_cues

i was into maiden & randy but my teacher made me listen to these...

jeff beck-blow by blow
b.b.king indianola mississippi seeds
dimeola,mcglaughlin,& paco de lucia-night on the town
michael hedges-because it's there.

it took me a couple years to get the gravity of all that but thank God i did..

another for beginners is triumph- progressions of power & rock & roll machine- whoa rik & all the styles.

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cptnkrunch

That's funny, I was into Beck,Mcglaughlin..Return to Forever(Dimeola)my teacher was a bluegrass/folk picker and had me listening to Simon and Garfunkel, G Harrison/ J Taylor, Scruggs etc.....I learned a lot from him.

core

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MM54

My guitar teacher was an amazing player, unbelievable jazz & classic tunes. Sadly he didn't know many tunes that I did and it was frustrating trying to learn a song, from tab, that I had never heard.

He also tried way too many times to get me to learn advanced fingerpicking...

There's a video on youtube somewhere of him playing, but I can't find it.

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Jesstaa

My guitar teacher never makes me listen to anything, but in my TAFE music class I have to listen to commercial bullshit.. Then learn and perform it =/

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NewReligion

Wish I had a teacher.

Roadburn

When I started taking lessons my teacher asked what kind of music I liked.
I told him Sabbath, Zep, Pink Floyd...
He made me listen to Satriani, Vai and Django Reinhardt (to name a few).

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j2112c

Yeah same here, never had one, wish I had found a good one to zap me along a bit - I might have been able to play fusion by now!

I am still looking and open to getting lessons even at 40 years old - if I could only find one that could play jazz fusion - there is a problem, there are not many Greg Howes living near me!

I suppose the one thing they cannot teach you is 'ear'!

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tonefreak

well I don't know that a teacher can teach 'ear' to an older person (over 10 or 11), but at a very young age, up to about 8, I know for a fact that with the right methods you can.
My piano teacher was a Suzuki teacher. the Suzuki method, relies on that fact, and starts kids out by not reading music. the kid learns where 'middle C' is, and the teacher plays a bit of the first song, a variation on twinkle, and the kid has to find where it was played, and play it back. the kid also is required to listen to a CD with all of the books' songs on it several times everyday (once you get past book one, its all classical music), and after about a year or 2, you start reading music. theirs 9 books, and by book 9, every student is playing by heart, (all music is memorized) most of the classical composers, bach, Handel, Mozart, etc, at pro-concert levels. I stuck with it for 8 years, made it half way through book 4, and then quit for guitar, (which I don't regret,) but some of my freinds who took it are in book 8, or 9, and are phenominal pianists...

the Suzuki method also has Violin, Cello, and I was once told that they had a classical guitar track too.
google it sometime, its pretty neat reading if your interested in that kind of stuff. the theory behind it, the guy who invented it and so on.

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NewReligion

Right John. The Ear, you are born with or not. Seldom just aquired. Of course everyone here has the ear because they play Marshalls, right?

Edwin

33 1/3 LP's you know Clapton, Page, Hendrix, Beck, If I went to a teacher now I would have to start from the begining. I probably don't even hold my pick correctly.