Ive been playing guitar for 8 years now, my first guitar i owned was a slash les Paul epiphone and i sold it for a custom made jackson soloist, worst F***ing decision i ever made as far as music goes. aside from fitness and football, music is my other passion. when i left high school i went straight to TAFE and got myself a diploma in sound engineering, probably the best thing i did as far as music goes. Ive been teaching guitar at a local music store called guitar world and i have to say it was probably the best job Ive had in my life, but now I'm a design draftsman. teaching kids how to play they're favourite songs is a great feeling, and there were plenty of people that always wanted to give up cos it was "too hard" or they were just too lazy, some of em were really insecure about playing in front of people, i know i still feel like that some times but as i say if you don't get out there your not gonna get any better!. Ive played in about 6 bands since i left high school and the last band i was in was called belial. we ended up doing a show case in los angeles for fear factory and they tried to set up a deal with nuclear blast records in germany for us, it was a truly insane thing to be able to do that, but sadly i ended up hating the music i had created with them and fell out with the band and decided it was best if i split from the group. basically i came to the decision that i didn't like death metal any more. I'm glad this thread came up, i wasn't sure if there would be any other muso's on the forum.
Anyway enough of me ill answer the question now Court. i find the best website to get lessons and tabs is as County Rd said is Ultimate-guitar.com they always have good tabs. also it has guitar pro tabs on there. Now mate personally i think its all down to what type of player you want to become, if you want to become a virtuoso then i would say take as many lessons as you can! take flamenco lessons, classical lessons, and normal lessons where you'll learn your favourite tunes and scales and theory. but if you just want to be a rocker then id say do the whole self taught thing, its probably the best way to go and its cheaper
you will develop your own style by doing this quicker as well. If you decide to teach yourself then i would most definitely recommend downloading the latest Guitar Pro package off of the official guitar pro product website, sorry i cant remember what it is. but you get a free trial downloadable pack on there and it lasts about 30 days, but if you do this all you have to do is download the crack code for it and you'll have the program for free! i think i got mine off of limewire. Guitar Pro is a great way to hear and see how a song is played, also you learn how to write real music notation and tabs for your own songs so you wont forget your awesome riffs!
you see music is a language and the more you have in your vocabulary the better your going to be so if your really keen on learning how to play an instrument then i would advise anyone to get proper lessons form all different styles of music and then try and develop your own influence into it.
If any one wants to know anything about guitar or music then I'm always more than happy to help where ever i can, just give me a mesage
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