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Thread #144574   Message #3343707
Posted By: Northerner
26-Apr-12 - 04:59 PM
Thread Name: What can I expect from guitar lessons?
Subject: RE: What can I expect from guitar lessons?
Hello everyone! I've been to my class and come away much happier. He gave us song sheets with lyrics and the chords on them. I do still like to see the music so I will do some research and see if I can find the sheet music for the songs on the Internet, and I will probably create my own tabs for the songs. The songs were in two packs; there some popular pop songs (well that's why they are pop!) and a pack of folk songs. The folk songs were a bit hackneyed for my taste but will do to learn on. He was very clued up technology wise. He had a microphone on, so it was easy to hear him. He also put up videos of performers on a screen to play along to. In addition he had a webcam up of his playing so you could see what his hands were doingm. Although my fingers were a bit slow at making the chord changes initilly my previous experience was helpful and I did manage to do a very basic strum along to "Dancing the Night Away" at the end of the evening. He has some more advanced songs in the programme so pupils come back the following year. He keeps adding to the repertoire that he offers. It is possible that I will seek some one-to-tuition eventually but this will be helpful for the moment. I am used to reading music as I did choral singing where we used sheet music for a number of years. I will just have to adapt his material and put it in a way that I like.