worried about taking lessons.

[Brick]

^^^ what??!?!

anyways i got lesions early on and they helped me a lot. I learned how to practice better and such as well some good technique down. it also got me excited to play, if I had a phase where i wasn't playing as much I'd get all pumped to play after a lesion.

lesions were good for me.

[tanpsi]

^^^ what??!?!

Well that was my (obviously failed) attempt at tweaking the "Anti technique" people,
you know, Hipster critics who love Sonic Youth, guitarists who say "You can say more with one note than 1,000"

[GryphonGuitar]

Just be careful that You don't get bogged down in the standard thing...

Every time a guitarist "discovers" a new noise or technique of playing, suddenly it's everywhere in their playing, which they don't discover until listening to an old recording five years later and going "Oh yeah, that was the summer I bought my flanger" or whatever.

Technique is like tools. Buying a shiny new hammer is wonderful, just don't try to do screws with it.

[VitaminG]

anyways i got lesions early on and they helped me a lot. I learned how to practice better and such as well some good technique down. it also got me excited to play, if I had a phase where i wasn't playing as much I'd get all pumped to play after a lesion.

lesions were good for me.

were they painful? The lesions, I mean.

[YetAnotherOne]

one of my friends are taking lessons from this guy and he seems to be very technically skilled. but i am worried that he might turn me into robot without soul and musical feel.

This reminds me a LOT of those people who don't work very hard in the gym because they don't want to get too big .... :ROTF:

[spaz]

When It comes to learning and playing guitar you can learn all the theory you want but when you put you personality into it is what makes your playing special. you don't sound like anyone else but you.That is what my teacher told me and it worked even though would not mind playing like EVH, George Lynch, and others Back in the day.

spaz

[Newc]

Also, make sure you're not taking lessons from some moron who says things like "other musicians judge you based on your technique", because that's the sort of person that tries to turn music into a competition rather than allowing it to be a method of expression.

[spaz]

I agree with newc! well put my friend. It is not a competition rather more a way to be an artist... we are all artist making music to entertain the world. without us the world would be boring.

spaz

[Danno]

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that developing technique will make you play like a robot. They don't know what they're talking about. Technique will help you better express what you want to express. And don't listen above all to anybody who tells you what "feeling" is and then demonstrates by playing yet another cliche blues-rock solo ala Slash or whomever. That's not feeling. It's a cliche. They are same people who will tell you that playing a clean, classical line is "stiff". They're just wrong. That's like saying Bach's music is stiff or unemotional, which is, frankly, idiotic. Also, if you EVER want to cut it in a studio setting with a band, best learn to play with a metronome. And I mean accurately with a metronome: not close, but dead on. You know you are in time when you can no longer hear the metronome. If you can hear it, you're off. It's that simple. There are also people who will tell you that learning to play to metronome will make your music or unfeeling. They have no idea what they're talking about.

[ezbprimerib]

+1 on the metronome study

It makes recording to a click track extremely easy to transition to

[horns666]

+1 on the metronome study

It makes recording to a click track extremely easy to transition to

Absolutely..who cares what you can play if don't have a good sense of meter.