Why a structured electric guitar course?

This is a very important point to bear in mind should you ever wish to play live in a band, I’ll give you a common situation (not with the current singer/band!) but a situation you must be able to deal with.

The band all decide on learning a new song, you arrive eager at the practice session and guess what, the singer can’t do the original key, we’ve got to change the key, can you play the song a tone lower with a couple of minutes notice so the singer can try that key, that didn’t work can you try another tone lower?

This is not a criticism of singers is just a fact that one voice can’t be expected to perform exactly the same as all the greatest singers in the world! If you’ve only learned copycat technique and no theory this is where you are going to start coming unstuck.

Don’t Make This Common Mistake When Learning Electric Guitar

Another reason for following a properly structured guitar training course can be illustrated by this actual example which I witnessed. A friend come around to see me bringing his mate a “fantastic guitarist” for a jam, this guy lets fly with the most amazing renditions of Van Halen, Malmsteen solos etc I was really impressed (for guitar wan…g anyway!), so I say ok I’ll play something bluesy in B minor for you to jam over, oops that didn’t sound so good, turns out he didn’t have a clue about scales or playing in key.

I could not believe someone could get to that level of ability in one aspect of guitar playing and totally bypass all the theory. He will be totally useless to any band unless he goes back and learns the necessary theory. I felt really sorry for him because he must have spent many hours over many years in his bedroom learning that stuff and the only one who’s ever going to hear it is his mum! (3 hours a day! ).
Sorry to labor this point but I think it’s quite possible to get obsessed with learning this solo or that solo, and with the resources on internet get very good at it without looking at the bigger picture of actually playing in a live band situation and what’s going to be required of you.

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