aphantomvaper
Bend it to the Owl!
My entire life.
I have actually been thinking about doing this. I look at this a bit different than a lot of people and I have an executive from one of my past jobs for the way I see it. He doesn't even know that he said something that completely changed my mind on guitar lessons.I saw an interview of Mark Knopfler from a few years ago maybe where he said he was interested in taking guitar lessons.
That is some BS. They should fill the slots with paying customers no matter what their age is. You need to find a teacher that teaches advanced players. They would be happy to do it. They love when someone that knows how to play comes to them. They get to go deeper into things than they get to with their typical young student. I used to like it when someone that could play came to me for lessons. I was able to raise their understanding of what they were doing and show them how to expand on it. I am rusty now but would love to get back into some sort of study on guitar. It always expands my playing. I have tried to start a self study a few times but haven't found the subject matter that interests me enough to really dig in.I think we all acknowledge the enormity of knowledge there is to fully appreciate the instrument we love so much.
The majority realize this is a lifelong journey , and it gets better each day.
I tried to take lessons a few times locally in the past 5 years , just to bring me up a notch .. NOBODY would teach me , because ... I'm too old
( rapidly approaching my 7th decade)
seriuously 3 places told me -- we like to save our slots for younger students ...
So I do what I've always done , continue to learn from other artists.
I'm sorry to hear that, hopefully they're not creepers trying to groom teens (I've seen this in the past as I live in a music city).I tried to take lessons a few times locally in the past 5 years , just to bring me up a notch .. NOBODY would teach me , because ... I'm too old
( rapidly approaching my 7th decade)
seriuously 3 places told me -- we like to save our slots for younger students ...
As long as you are still able to play, it is never too late to learn more. There comes a point in the learning process where you really start to understand and hear a difference in what you are doing. This is when it gets exciting and you have some tools to start making your music a little more interesting.The more I play the more frustrated I get, skill-wise. I mean, I feel that the more I learn the more I am aware of what I do not know and sometimes, only sometimes, I get frustrated. Specially when I realize I have been playing guitar since I was 16 or 17 (and now I'm 47).
I'm aware it's mostly my fault. I have always been a song-centric player…I always had a blast whenever I learned a new song, a new riff from someone or wrote my own. But I always found extremely boring putting too much time into fretboard gymnastics, you know...playing scales up and down, practicing sweep pickings, tappings and whatnot...and I guess it shows. Obviously I'm good enough to play in a band, write our own songs and play covers but as an individual guitarist I'm nowhere near as good as I thought I could be given enough time.
The more I play the more frustrated I get, skill-wise. I mean, I feel that the more I learn the more I am aware of what I do not know and sometimes, only sometimes, I get frustrated. Specially when I realize I have been playing guitar since I was 16 or 17 (and now I'm 47).
I'm aware it's mostly my fault. I have always been a song-centric player…I always had a blast whenever I learned a new song, a new riff from someone or wrote my own. But I always found extremely boring putting too much time into fretboard gymnastics, you know...playing scales up and down, practicing sweep pickings, tappings and whatnot...and I guess it shows. Obviously I'm good enough to play in a band, write our own songs and play covers but as an individual guitarist I'm nowhere near as good as I thought I could be given enough time.