Wednesday, June 07, 2006
"I Just Want To Play Guitar!"
How many times I've heard that war cry.
Whether it's Sweet Home Alabama, or Home on the Range, or Bo Diddley, or Whole Lotta Love, or whatever, so many of us just want to play guitar. We don't want to have to learn to read music, or learn harmony, or learn theory. We don't want to follow tab.
We just want to play guitar. It's a sentiment expressed from ages 4 to 84, by men, women, boys and girls, all over.
So they buy a guitar (usually red for guys..(?)), and some slick music store owner signs them up for a bunch of lessons. ...and they get nowhere with it. So guitar gathers dust in the corner, or in the case, or in the furnace room. Or worse - it gets SOLD.
A tragedy played out every day across the world.
Okay, I'm getting a bit maudlin here.
The reason is that the music shoppe is probably not out for your best interests. They are out to make money. They make a ton of money selling you the lessons (never mind the guitar, if they get get $1,000 a year out of you - 50 lessons at $20 a pop). Multiply that by a few hundred students and you start to see why they are in the teaching business. So don't get me started on music stores. I turned down a job offer from one once.
So they start you off slowwwwwly. With theory. With goofy exercises. With useless single string stuff. For those students it doesn't hopelessly confuse, it bores the living daylights out of. Sound familiar?
What if you could play a chord right off the bat - strum something that sounds like something right away? Would that motivate you. That's what you get with Guitar-eze. Browse the rest of the site.
http://www.easierguitar.com
Whether it's Sweet Home Alabama, or Home on the Range, or Bo Diddley, or Whole Lotta Love, or whatever, so many of us just want to play guitar. We don't want to have to learn to read music, or learn harmony, or learn theory. We don't want to follow tab.
We just want to play guitar. It's a sentiment expressed from ages 4 to 84, by men, women, boys and girls, all over.
So they buy a guitar (usually red for guys..(?)), and some slick music store owner signs them up for a bunch of lessons. ...and they get nowhere with it. So guitar gathers dust in the corner, or in the case, or in the furnace room. Or worse - it gets SOLD.
A tragedy played out every day across the world.
Okay, I'm getting a bit maudlin here.
The reason is that the music shoppe is probably not out for your best interests. They are out to make money. They make a ton of money selling you the lessons (never mind the guitar, if they get get $1,000 a year out of you - 50 lessons at $20 a pop). Multiply that by a few hundred students and you start to see why they are in the teaching business. So don't get me started on music stores. I turned down a job offer from one once.
So they start you off slowwwwwly. With theory. With goofy exercises. With useless single string stuff. For those students it doesn't hopelessly confuse, it bores the living daylights out of. Sound familiar?
What if you could play a chord right off the bat - strum something that sounds like something right away? Would that motivate you. That's what you get with Guitar-eze. Browse the rest of the site.
http://www.easierguitar.com
