I've been playing guitar for about 4ish years now. I grew up playing piano but not really understanding theory except reading and timing. Never understood scales/modes and improvisation, which I think is a huge hindrance to those who want to be in a band. I quit piano (I lost the fun in memorizing classical pieces) and moved to guitar. After the first year of playing chords, I had a semester away from lessons because of scheduling conflicts. During that time I watched a video that had a dude playing the og rocksmith, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever (didn't play rock band or anything like that). I picked it up, and I loved it. It was hard the first few weeks because that was the first time I was breaking into single notes. But my gosh that skyrocketed my skill and learning. I just played songs, making me comfortable with the fretboard. Never used the guitarcade feature (games dressed like arcade games designed for various techniques like sliding, tapping, scales) and I really regret that. Anyway my music school where I took lessons had me skip a teacher, or "grade", because I already knew how to do everything. Now I can tackle faster, harder, and more complex songs (and write!). But screw sweeping. Screwwwww sweeping.
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I've been playing guitar for about 4ish years now. I grew up playing piano but not really understanding theory except reading and timing. Never understood scales/modes and improvisation, which I think is a huge hindrance to those who want to be in a band. I quit piano (I lost the fun in memorizing classical pieces) and moved to guitar. After the first year of playing chords, I had a semester away from lessons because of scheduling conflicts. During that time I watched a video that had a dude playing the og rocksmith, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever (didn't play rock band or anything like that). I picked it up, and I loved it. It was hard the first few weeks because that was the first time I was breaking into single notes. But my gosh that skyrocketed my skill and learning. I just played songs, making me comfortable with the fretboard. Never used the guitarcade feature (games dressed like arcade games designed for various techniques like sliding, tapping, scales) and I really regret that. Anyway my music school where I took lessons had me skip a teacher, or "grade", because I already knew how to do everything. Now I can tackle faster, harder, and more complex songs (and write!). But screw sweeping. Screwwwww sweeping.
tl;dr Used rocksmith, skill skyrocketed
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