Members RoboPimp Posted November 18, 2005 Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 well, my wife actually... she wants me to give her guitar lessons... I think she might have the hots for me... or at least hook me up with some of her friends. seriously - she wants to learn guitar but I have no idea how to show her... I drew up some little "tabbed" chords, the basic open ones on the end. I taught her the chords to a pink floyd song... I've never had a "lesson" myself so I don't really have a idea how to show her what to do. She also is learning to play the drums... so now I gotta buy a drum set... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Porkchop Xpress Posted November 18, 2005 Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 Start by explaining the anatomy of the guitar or she will never get past the fact that it is called a nut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoboPimp Posted November 18, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 gotcha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jcn37203 Posted November 18, 2005 Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 I've showed a few friends the basics. In my opinion, 99% of the people starting, especially if they're older than 17 or 18 or so, probably won't stick with it. So I always go for the high reward/little effort thing. Simple chords, easy strumming. Old Johnny Cash songs are perfect. Women might be tougher, just because I think they have a harder time with the finger strength. It's actually kind of fun, because after playing for a certain amount of time, it's easy to think that just anybody could pick up a guitar and play a C shord, if you showed them were to put their fingers -- not true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members VoodooChild24 Posted November 18, 2005 Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 Originally posted by Porkchop Xpress Start by explaining the anatomy of the guitar or she will never get past the fact that it is called a nut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members canucker1981 Posted November 18, 2005 Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 Originally posted by Porkchop Xpress Start by explaining the anatomy of the guitar or she will never get past the fact that it is called a nut. It gets better when she finds out that the G string is held in place by the nut. They never figure that one out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Speeddemon Posted November 18, 2005 Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 Originally posted by jcn37203 I've showed a few friends the basics. In my opinion, 99% of the people starting, especially if they're older than 17 or 18 or so, probably won't stick with it. So I always go for the high reward/little effort thing. So true, I used to have 5 guitar students (2 female) and they were all quitters. And especially the 2 girls had a hard time with gripping chords.They all have this attitude like "o.k., I'm gonna spend 1 hour with you and if I walk out I wanna be able to play Nothing Else Matters well". And the 1 guy that had potential stopped showing up for no apparent reason. I mean, he *was* enjoying the lessons and I helped him buying a new guitar + amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vere Posted November 18, 2005 Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 vin diesel wouldn't show his wife open chords first. however i tried this with my grilfriend. find something easy you both like and teach her the simple melody and then start with open chords Em->G Am->C 12 bar blues and intervals (CFG becomes ADE becomes DAG). simple shuffles in E and A. easy basslines simplified beatles songs. johnny cash was a good suggestion too, but a lot of that is alternating bass so i would just teach the open chords. dylan songs. anything with major or minor open chords in C or G, then D, E. makes life easier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ginnboonmiller Posted November 18, 2005 Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 The good news is that she can save money on that pedal that makes her sound like a talentless hack for a while... I taught myself guitar, too -- do you remember the first couple things you figured out? I do. Start with that and let her play around for a while. It worked for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members riffdaddy Posted November 18, 2005 Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 Originally posted by ginnboonmiller The good news is that she can save money on that pedal that makes her sound like a talentless hack for a while...I taught myself guitar, too -- do you remember the first couple things you figured out? I do. Start with that and let her play around for a while. It worked for us. GBM, I'm guessing you had a little bit of a theory background like I did when I first got started. It works differently for us. I don't teach beginners anymore because I find it to be a tedious, thankless process. I feel like I'm teaching algebra to somebody who doesn't understand addition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoboPimp Posted November 18, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 werd. that bitch better learn to add before I show her my vast skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Porkchop Xpress Posted November 18, 2005 Members Share Posted November 18, 2005 Originally posted by canucker1981 It gets better when she finds out that the G string is held in place by the nut. They never figure that one out. Nicely played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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