Originally Posted by
Jimi75
@Sunvalleylaw:
I know it is difficult but you have to set and define your musical priorities. This gives your teacher the chance to be prepared. If you kind of have a musical melting pot and bring up mixed things with every lesson then the red line is missing.
For me it was difficult, too, but I decided to go Blues first as everything started with the blues and then I went further down the road to Blues Rock, Rock, Jazz.
Make a plan and show him. Built it logically so that the styles grow on each other and you have fluent frontiers.
Very important, give yourself at least a year of time to spend with one or two styles at maximum.
Good luck my friend!
I had a talk with my instructor at lunch which will continue and we are going to try to develop something like you have discussed above. Thanks for all the great thoughts! I am thinking of narrowing down to blues leading to blues oriented rock. I need to see if he wants to do that. As I said, he is more folk/folk rock/finger picking oriented. He said, if we can figure it out great, if not, moving on is appropriate too.
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