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  • Having a guitar teacher, has enabled me to pick up so many playing styles and tricks. The whole experience is awesome, strumming and finger picking has been a doodle. Standard chords and chord progression seeing improvement every week. Barre chords (on the syllabus from day 1) remain my biggest challenge, so I need to just be patient and practice, practice, practice, like a workout in the gym, I can’t rush this, mindful that I need to avoid any injuries, it will come in time could be weeks or months. I know that once I have these sussed the Nile Rogers percussive technique and precision will be next. My teacher knows my musical preference so the fender strat’s value increases every week I’m learning, practising, playing.

  • I’m thinking of going to in person lessons having mainly used the internet so far (except for one not so great experience last summer) how frequently are your lessons and how long? I was thinking of an hour every fortnight.

  • hi @Alan_tbt

    personally, i reckon 1 hour per week, it is important to find a teacher who knows what your objectives are, and I get a ton of homework. lessons are circa £40 ph, also lessons are only useful if you have time to practice, i'm hitting on average one hour of practice each day currently.

    so for me, 1 hour lesson equates to 6 hours of practice each week, if you make your lessons fortnightly then any momentum will be driven by your desire to progress.

    on-line tutorials are useful for discovering stuff and I still look up plenty of free youtube footage. however i don't find them inspirational enough for learning more for recaps. I sense that alot of new guitar owners are giving up after a few weeks. As i mentioned upthread, I really look forward to my weekly lesson, learning stuff all the time, lots of different genres, being challenged to become an accomplished guitar player.

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