Wednesday, August 29, 2007

You are not a self-taught guitarist!

I always don't understand why people will call and pride themselves a self-taught guitarist when they are not. Just because you didn't attend any formal lesson, doesn't mean you are self-taught. Sometimes a passerby, your friends may give you as much advise and help you to learn as much as when you attend a formal lesson. That one sentences spoken, if it give you just a little bit of help in improving yourself in guitar playing, then you are not a self-taught guitarist anymore.

To be a real self-taught guitarist, you need to have nobody ever giving you any advise on your guitar playing.

So for eg.
If you are minding your own business playing guitar at one corner, and this guy walk over and say, "you can use this voicing at the 5th fret for your D chord, it will suit better for this song." And you realize it is true. That's it! In less than 1 min, you are not a self-taught guitarist anymore!

posted by Wui-Ping @ 3:20 PM Comments: 1