My guitar teacher is showimg me some blues somgs and Bob Dylan but i wanna earn  stuff like Green Day and Operation Ivy so i was hoping that blues isnt just a waste of time.
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It will in a way. Blues has a certain chord structure that comes in handy everywhere: I-IV-V-I.  Take the key of E for example.  E is I in this case, or #1.  Count up four frames using I-IV-V-I starting with E as 1 (F-2, G-3, A-4, B-5, etc).  That means you'll play chord E for one frame, A for one frame, B for one frame, and back to E.\n\nI know of many punk songs that use this structure.
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Oh yeah - I have a Schecter guitar and it's beautiful.\n\nFP
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those three instruments are actually the only three instruments that i have ever been interested in. sadly im lazy and have given up on all three. my recommendation is the piano though... this is only because from what i hear "if you learn to play the piano it makes it a lot easier to play almost any other instrument" or thats what i hear anyway. point is regardless of wether u choose it or not. anything is better than nothing because its better to get urself at least used to reading music and what different notes sound like etc. u can always change to a different instrument later... also someone said that guitar chicks are hot... actually any girl that plays an instrument that can be in a rock band is sexy. :-D
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haha wow you must be very talented. i just started playing guitar and am totally addicted. will you check out my last two questions and give me some advice? :) thanx
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No.\n\nThe reason that most people quit guitar is music theory. Here's what I do for people who want to learn (works for electric and acoustic).\n\nAsk him/her five artists/songs that they like. Go to harmony-central.com and grab five tabs for them to learn. Help them bang out the five songs until they sound decent, then move on the five more. This help s in a couple of ways. It teaches chords and scales WHILE learning a song they like. Once they learn a  song, it gives them something to show off to their friends AND gives them something to go back to and mess around when they get frustrated learning something new.\n\nGood Luck!
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NO,BUT IT'S WORTH IT IF THE BAND IS GREAT.I'VE SEEN SOME GREAT SHOWS AT HOUSE OF BLUES.
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I'm not a music teacher, but I'm a music student. At my school we do recording projects and charge $10 for a CD, everyone loves that. We normally do ours around Christmas. We also have a calendar. We take pictures of the different music activities and make it into a calendar for the up coming year, people seem to buy those as well. Hope these ideas help a little bit, if not good luck!
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i'm a guitar instructor, i have about 40 students a week, and i also work behind the register at a music store. if a student comes in once a week for a half hour lesson, and gives an honest effort to practicing around 20 minutes or more on most days, i can have most ppl playing songs, and understanding chords and scales in about a month and a half or so. not playing perfectly, but enjoying it, and what you play will be easily recognized as a song.\n\nanyone can do it, as long as they want it enough to put in the effort.
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don't think so. i do that too. like, i play the piano, and halfway play my guitar, but i was at the music store buying a music book with my 30% off coupon and the guy was letting me try and play some of the songs in it, and i got to play on this really nice, expensive grand piano, opposed to my litte not-very-expensive yamaha i have at home...
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If you're gonna do it, do it right. take lessons, learn to read music. take your time and learn as much as you can.\nI'm a guitar player, but never learned to read music. I wish i would have done it differently.
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It just depends on what you like, look at this playlist, maybe it could give you a better idea.\n\nhttp://www.winamp.com/music/browse.php?start=15&shownum=5&genre=Classic+Rock
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Studies first.! You should fix your schedule.. If you have time to learn those instruments, then spend it wisely.. Guitar & Piano Lessons are also useful., and,, if you already knew the chords in Guitar-minors and majors and the keys in Piano-I mean the C,B,D,E,F,G,A,B,C--even without knowing the notes written in piano pieces,, then you can play & compose your own songs... :D The notes and tunes are just the same so whatever piece you'll play in Guitar, can also be played in Piano--using chords..!
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Sheet music of someone he likes Or have each student buy one song and then make an album out of them for him with a note and picture from each student saying why they enjoyed his class or what they learned
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i play an ovation acoustic electric i like ac/dc, bon jovi g-n-r pearl jam stp alice in chains jewel and the list goes on but i really like to play my husbands songs he writes his own music and i try to play along i try to make up my own stuff to it is better than playing someone elses music all the time i actually have several guitars some were re configured for me on was a peavey that a friend turned into a cat guitar he reshaped it and even put a hole in the head for my cigarette  another was just a body the neck was broke and it was burned in a fire it now plays again and quite nicely i might add it was originally my brothers Gibson electric a 1968 i believe now it has a peavey neck i also have a 60 something 12 string framus i was told that john lennon had a framus like mine also a Kent acoustic it has soul it is really old and another acoustic electric is jay turser and lets not forget my cheapo mandolin i got from the pawn shop for 50 bucks i think that is all of my guitars so good bye
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Please let me know if he actually gets to learn to play the guitar from a book. I´d like to learn as well but have no much time and I have an erratic shcedule that won't allow me to take lessons.(P.S. You must really love your husband to be willing to endure constant headaches for the next few months; my wife would probably recommend I take painting lessons instead)
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It's really according to what you are looking for. Certain teachers specialize in acoustic vs. electric (for example). Your best bet is to place a request on a service such as Click For Lessons that will show you several teacher bios and let you decide for yourself.
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Basically, I like any song that I can play on my guitar with a few chords...simple songs like older green day and ramones.