War_in_D
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I'm 110% self taught. Starting playing when I was about 16, and I'm 53 now. I was able to devote a lot more time to guitar up until I hit my mid/late 20's and then life kind of got in the way. At my peak and when I was playing all the time, my ear was pretty decent and I could figure out some stuff on my own. I would have considered myself a competent guitar player and if you handed me a bunch of songs and I could find the tab for them I could bang them out in no time. The problem was that if you put me in with a group of real musicians and they said, we're going to play in the key of G... I got that deer in the headlights look, and I was usually pretty lost... and forget about improvising. Wasn't going to happen.
One of, if not the greatest regret I have, was that I never took formal lessons and never studied any kind of music theory. At least not seriously. I'm not completely ignorant of music theory, but my understanding would be considered "beginner" at best. The other day, I was going through Youtube and I saw this "One hour of basic music theory" video by Rick Beato. Love or hate the guy, I do enjoy his videos and he seems to really know his stuff. Anyway, I learned more about music theory in that one hour video that I have in 30+ years of playing (or trying to play) guitar.
So tonight, I signed up for his courses. He was running a special, and it was just a little over $100 for all four. So, I guess I'll be working on some of that stuff and hopefully gaining a better understanding of the instrument. Yeah, it's probably about 35 years too late... but better late than never, right! LOL
One of, if not the greatest regret I have, was that I never took formal lessons and never studied any kind of music theory. At least not seriously. I'm not completely ignorant of music theory, but my understanding would be considered "beginner" at best. The other day, I was going through Youtube and I saw this "One hour of basic music theory" video by Rick Beato. Love or hate the guy, I do enjoy his videos and he seems to really know his stuff. Anyway, I learned more about music theory in that one hour video that I have in 30+ years of playing (or trying to play) guitar.
So tonight, I signed up for his courses. He was running a special, and it was just a little over $100 for all four. So, I guess I'll be working on some of that stuff and hopefully gaining a better understanding of the instrument. Yeah, it's probably about 35 years too late... but better late than never, right! LOL