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6th August

Hello

I hope to make this blog a useful place for you to visit often, to learn about playing guitar, and music theory, especially as applied to the guitar.

Bring your questions about music theory, and I will do my best to answer them, in a way that makes the ideas clear.

I have been playing guitar for more than twenty years, I am primarily a self taught guitarist, although I have worked with a few teachers, but not until I was an intermediate level player.

I have tried many different learning tools, books, cassette tapes, videos, dvd’s and lately, online teaching sites.

I will be sharing what I have found to be the best learning materials and sites, to make you a better guitar player, in the shortest possible time.

The biggest idea I would like to get across about learning guitar, online or with a teacher, or any other learning materials, is that buying every thing you can find about learning guitar, or paying the best teacher in the world for private leaaons, will not make you a better guitar player, unless you open up your guitar case, take out the guitar, and actually play some guitar!

I believe that playing music should be fun, (they don’t talk about “working” music, it’s playing music.) And, I will try to help you enjoy learning everything you want to learn.

Bass players are also welcome; I only recently started learning bass, about six months ago, so I am still a beginner. But many ideas that work on guitar, work on bass, also. And, music theory is the same, no matter the instrument; it’s only the application that changes. (I mean that chord, scale and mode theory is the same, but you can’t play guitar chords on a flute, for example.)

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how to teach a fourth grader to play the trumpet?

14th November

I'm a highschool trumpet player who takes lessons from a professional teacher, and I guess not…a first time lesson teacher myself. He probably doesn't know music theory, but I don't want to make it boring with all theory before actually playing, or make it overwhelming with all playing and no theory. Can you suggest any good sites or beginner trumpet playing books to teach from?

the best pedagogy for that age is to play right alongside him. that way he hears a good example all the time. teach counting notes and rests, nothing too complex,…
i like standards of excellence book one for beginners, i also like rubank elementary book for trumpet-but it's a bit dry for a younger player.

Where is a good site or book to learn and understand music theory?

14th November

Learning to play guitar, but know nothing about music theory

Try this link on music theory from Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_theory

rocked classical music? yes/no? opinions?

14th November

hi, ive just discovered JerryC's, Canon. if anyone hasnt seen or heard it, check it out.
anyway, im thinking of covering / sampling / changing another piece of classical-ish music. i play guitar and bass, and a little piano. i like papa roach / the used / static x style music. and i kno the basics of music theory.

so does anyone kno of a piece of music that i could change, somehow?

Night on a Bald Mountain would be a really cool piece to change like that…

Also, I'm curious to see how Rite of Spring would turn out. I love those kinds of songs, you should e-mail me with it when it's finished!

Is there a cool and free website that gives cool instructions to learn piano and guitar online?

14th November

I can't read notes, so it would have to be for dummies like me ;)
ok for guitar which i am asuming you are talking acustic look up the tabs to your favorite song i suggest Dashboard Confessional because that is my fav band but anyway get the tabs and google how to read tabs its pretty easy then learn a song and just keep going and it is a lot easier than the online things remember starting at the top string of a six string acoustic the notes are
E- every
A - apple
D- does
G- go
B- bad
E- eventually
(top string to bottom)
and as for piano i would say just get lessons from a person it is a lot harder to teach yourself and inteernet thing rip you off if you have anymore questions just e mail me by clicking on my username and then u can email me