About Me
I started playing guitar at 13 years old, when I started a new school. I was asked if I would like to join the music class and I went for it like a shot. By the time I had left school I had fell head over heels in love with the guitar; it was an obsession. I played with other musicians, but none of us were any great shakes at it, I did busking and the odd pub gig..
I had plenty of opportunity to make a career out of guitar, but for me a hobby, not a job.
I dont want to spend all day in the back of a van and all evening in a dressing room waiting to go on. So I teach guitar and that. what I have been doing with my time, teaching guitar one on one.
Everyone I have taught has become very good with the guitar and they make wonderful music. None of them need to buy sheet music because they can all listen to a piece of music and work it out themselves. Many of them realised that once you have learned guitar you have learned how to play many instruments. They were all astounded at how fast they learned and how accomplished they became.
When you have acquired all the knowledge that this lesson contains you will be able to pick up any musical instrument and play it in no time at all. This lesson teaches you everything you need to know in order to become the greatest guitarist you can be, whatever style of guitar you may wish to specialise in, but the knowledge also applies to any instrument, after all they all use the same rules and principles.
So, enjoy this lesson. Remember though, the standard of guitarist you are about to become depends entirely on the amount of dedication and self-discipline you apply in the next month. Practice what you are about to read until you can play it without thinking.
A good carpenter makes really nice furniture, but he first needs to acquire the tools and the ability to use them. No carpenter would get anywhere if he didnt know how to use a saw, or use a hammer.
This lesson is your toolbox. Everything that this book covers is important. You need to know all of it if you want to become the guitar player that you dream of being.
Can you drive? Remember when you learned to drive? You had to do all the silly exercises and teach your muscles to change gear and know where the pedals were without looking. There were a lot of new things to remember, new habits to get into. Then you had to do a test. Now you can go anywhere in your car. Learning guitar is just like that, perfecting scales and chord changes might be a drag, but when you have it nobbled, you can play any piece of music and any instrument. To be the best, you have to dedicate yourself the best you can. To be as good as you can be you must put all that you have into what you are learning.
The more time you devote to this lesson the better you will become. I know, I teach this knowledge, I have seen it happen a thousand times. I can play any piece of music on any instrument in any style, and so can you. You have the same fingers that I have, you have the same love for the guitar that I have.
