Guitar lessons or learn yourself??

[Tav]

Lightening Shred isn't the basis of a song...it's just something to add to it.

[bryn]

yeh, you have your catchy riff / hooky singing then you take the song forward with an impressive but not over indulgent solo - check almost any van halen song

[Lawy Lawson:Attorney]

Originally posted by bryn:

yeh, you have your catchy riff / hooky singing then you take the song forward with an impressive but not over indulgent solo - check almost any van halen song

"Jump" is scientificly the best song ever. Even God says so.

[Fast Caz]

Teachers Pet is very good song to use an an example for standard kind of rock writing

[Guest Electric Tibet]

Originally posted by Alan Cynic:

Lawy's right, though....nowadays I'm limited in what I can do, and I'm not proud about that.

(note to self: buy another copy of Bert Weedon's "Play Guitar the easy way")

I learned to play from this

on one of these

The only lesson I've ever had was when Dave Dixon showed me how to play Johnny B. Goode. I suppose all the Hendrix and Sonic Youth videos helped as well.

[Ewano]

i think you need to be taught the basics just 2 get an idea of how 2 get going. but the rest should b intuition - but you must always have the mind of a learner so you can keep progressing

[Danny Doubt]

i had a few lessons but i started out wiv some tips from my bro an took it from their, experiment look up some tabs and shit, hit the strings!

[framheim]

my brother showed me a few chords and i went from there. entirely self taught appart from that. i like trying to recreate sounds i hear on cd and in other bands. i think it forces you to be more inventive if you're self taught. if you have guitar lesson's you can get too caught up in the technique side of things. i like to challenge myself as a guitarist though, i think it helps me find new way's of expressing myself if i know a few more chord shapes and scales. i just work them out as i go though, trial and error. i get a better sense of acheivment out of it that way, it's the only thing i've stuck at for a long period of time that's maintained my interest, and i think that's part of the reason why.