Acoustic, Bass and Electric Guitar. The thrreee! I've been wanting to play other instruments like Piano but I find it alot comfier just sitting in my couch playing any of the guitars. ;)
Mostly guitar. I also play bass guitar, and double bass in my school's orchestra. I used to play trumpet for 3 years in elementary school, and I want to learn how to play piano.
[QUOTE="quiglythegreat"]I hope one day to be able to say I can play guitar. I cannot, however, so I'll get back to you guys on that.EboyLOL
Take lessons.
Pfft, teach yourself, I did, and I am better then most the people I know who paid for lessons...Anywho, I play acoustic/electric guitar, trumpet, piano, and harmonica. I would like to add violin to that list....
[QUOTE="EboyLOL"][QUOTE="quiglythegreat"]I hope one day to be able to say I can play guitar. I cannot, however, so I'll get back to you guys on that.22Toothpicks
Take lessons.
Pfft, teach yourself, I did, and I am better then most the people I know who paid for lessons...Anywho, I play acoustic/electric guitar, trumpet, piano, and harmonica. I would like to add violin to that list.... right on man
im teaching myself, and im so much better than the kids who are taking lessons, theyre basically reading the same book as me except they want the teacher to read it too them, its pretty pathetic. theyre wasting 70 bucks a month for 2 hours of lessons only
[QUOTE="22Toothpicks"][QUOTE="EboyLOL"][QUOTE="quiglythegreat"]I hope one day to be able to say I can play guitar. I cannot, however, so I'll get back to you guys on that.mish55
Take lessons.
Pfft, teach yourself, I did, and I am better then most the people I know who paid for lessons...Anywho, I play acoustic/electric guitar, trumpet, piano, and harmonica. I would like to add violin to that list.... right on man
im teaching myself, and im so much better than the kids who are taking lessons, theyre basically reading the same book as me except they want the teacher to read it too them, its pretty pathetic. theyre wasting 70 bucks a month for 2 hours of lessons only
Lack of success from lessons occurs because of two things - incompetent teaching and unmotivated students. If either of those conditions is fulfilled, the student will not advance. In the highlighted case, it sounds like the teachers are incompetent, and as such, you are indeed wasting $70/month. Teachers that do nothing but read instructions from a book aren't worth the money, though I want to be very clear about this - reading from the book is NOT the same thing as directing study through a book, which is a highly successful pedagogical strategy for beginners. The book is a supplement, not a replacement for instruction. But bear in mind that it is equally likely that the students themselves are the problem, and that their failure to work is causing their slow progress.
When you combine a competent instructor with a motivated pupil, that pupil will have a huge advantage over all you "go-it-alone" people. There's a reason that professional clas sical musicians dominate professional popular musicians when it comes to technical control and musical ability - superior instruction. You can only gain so much benefit from a book or from videos. All they can give you is general concepts of what makes for effective playing. They can't watch you and point out errors, they can't accomodate the fact that every student has unique challenges to overcome, and they can't rationalize a problem and improvise a solution where necessary.
Like it or not, learning to play music effectively is a complicated and challenging endeavor that requires an excellent concept of how to approach the instrument in question. The problem isn't music instruction - the problem is that anyone who wants to can teach music, regardless of how incompent they are. There are no qualification requirements. And thus, you get a lot of greedy hacks undercutting qualified professional instructors to supplement their incomes, and people who don't think the issue through start claiming that instruction is therefore pointless, because they can accomplish the same thing studying alone.
P.S. By whose standards do you claim you're 'better' than the students who are taking lessons? I often hear those sorts of arrogant claims from people who are actually really awful players... one need only tour YouTube to see that. Students often appear to advance more slowly than self-taught players, because they're actually learning to play properly - not rushing through things as fast as they can, developing dozens of bad habits along the way.
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