How to know if an instuctor is good for you?
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I dropped my teacher for the same reasons with all the intentions of going back when I think I’m ready for him. he really is a good player, just over my head right now.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I would like to know how you determine if your guitar instuctor is a > good one? What types of messure are valid? For instance, my instuctor > is an excellent guitarist, one of the best that I have ever heard. But, > I wonder if his style of instuction is really doing me any good. A > couple of flags are that first, he dislikes almost all music after the > late 80’s or early 90’s. Also, he is always shreading. I can’t get > anything from that at my level. Any thoughts?
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If the instructor had NEVER seen a guitar before, had corn hair in his teeth, smelled like a hog and her mother came from Mars… If you learned what you needed, he is a great instructor.
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My guess is that if you feel the need to ask, it might be time to try someone else… Also, IMHO, having the best teacher in the world won’t help much if he can’t teach the music you want to learn. It’s obviously not the only consideration, but I think you’d tend to lose interest quickly… — Let my sword devour Until it’s thirst is quenched in blood And my enemies sleep forever…
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>I would like to know how you determine if your guitar instuctor is a >good one? What types of messure are valid? For instance, my instuctor >is an excellent guitarist, one of the best that I have ever heard. But, >I wonder if his style of instuction is really doing me any good.
You have to let your instructor know what it is you want to learn. I took lessons from an excellent jazz player. I let him know that my goal was to learn to strum a few "campfire songs", so we did that, he also threw in some scales, and some barre chords, and some improv, and some music reading and God knows what else, with the end result of getting me addicted to learning more and more. I think a good instructor will teach you what you want to learn and instill in you the desire to learn more. BTW a good instructor doen’t have to be a great player, but he should be able to relate to how tough it was when he was a beginner. Eric commercial free radio WFUV 90.7
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> I would like to know how you determine if your guitar instuctor is a > good one? What types of messure are valid? For instance, my instuctor > is an excellent guitarist, one of the best that I have ever heard. But, > I wonder if his style of instuction is really doing me any good. A > couple of flags are that first, he dislikes almost all music after the > late 80’s or early 90’s. Also, he is always shreading. I can’t get > anything from that at my level. Any thoughts?
He may be a good player, but not neccessary a good teacher and seems a bit blindfolded to other people’s tastes. This is based on my experiance of what I look for… 1. Make sure he knows what you want to do and like. 2. He can play himself (This has happened!) 3. He doesn’t work his ego out on you (He can play and likes to show off to you) 4. Respects your musical tastes and doesnt try to brainwash you with his. 5. Whilst learning technical stuff (scales and so on), allows you space to learn something *you* want to play. 6. Doesn’t scam you into buying his expensive backing tracks, expect you to improvise with them and then gets annoyed when you can’t, because one reason you have decided to have lessons is because you want to improvise, but don’t know *how* to. Graham
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Thank you all who responded. There is no question in my mind now. It’s time to move on. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I would like to know how you determine if your guitar instuctor is a > good one? What types of messure are valid? For instance, my instuctor > is an excellent guitarist, one of the best that I have ever heard. But, > I wonder if his style of instuction is really doing me any good. A > couple of flags are that first, he dislikes almost all music after the > late 80’s or early 90’s. Also, he is always shreading. I can’t get > anything from that at my level. Any thoughts?
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I would like to know how you determine if your guitar instuctor is a good one? What types of messure are valid? For instance, my instuctor is an excellent guitarist, one of the best that I have ever heard. But, I wonder if his style of instuction is really doing me any good. A couple of flags are that first, he dislikes almost all music after the late 80’s or early 90’s. Also, he is always shreading. I can’t get anything from that at my level. Any thoughts?
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> I would like to know how you determine if your guitar instuctor is a > good one? What types of messure are valid? For instance, my instuctor > is an excellent guitarist, one of the best that I have ever heard. But, > I wonder if his style of instuction is really doing me any good. A > couple of flags are that first, he dislikes almost all music after the > late 80’s or early 90’s. Also, he is always shreading. I can’t get > anything from that at my level. Any thoughts?
I always try to go with what is IMHO the most valid measure of all and that is your own common sense. Do you think he’s not doing you any good? Obviously or you wouldn’t have posted this message. If you truly feel that way then dump him. If you like the guy but don’t like what he’s doing, tell him what you want to accomplish. If he can’t get you where you want to go then you are wasting your time and money. There are just too many good guitar teachers out there to be wasting time with a poor one.
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