Everything Bianca

I had my first guitar lesson today.

LOL WUT?!

Yeah, I went and acquired a teacher. I live on whim.

What brought this on?

In these three months I've been scouring the internet for every drop of free lesson nectar, I have collected a lot of information. I have read more than I can currently recall, but One Note and I have that all sorted out. I've expanded and remixed my practice sessions to include all sorts of snippets of knowledge. 

That's what the 'free stuff' really is: snippets, appetizers, openers. You can learn plenty on your own, but not everything I want, and not the way I want it. Not without more personal effort (I've put forth a lot already, but I have my limit.)

I really like the teacher I found, proficient in the style I like (fingerstyle), with the knowledge I want (theory), and the counterbalance I need (structured). I still plan to teach myself the things I've found and want to follow, but in the meanwhile, I'm going to learn what he gives me. A teacher, (mine anyway), can provide a link among all that knowledge I have. Links - how one thing relates to another and how it relates back to something else.

I risk overwhelming myself left to my own devices, especially in a discipline where there is a sheer metric tonne of things I could know.

How did I find my teacher? I kept it simple. I asked the person who sold me my guitar. I liked what he told me about the teacher he thought would fit me.