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JeffS65
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JeffS65
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03/14/2017 3:50 pm

maldr427, Start here with the Guitar Fundementals courses. When I joined this site a number of years ago, even though I was a pretty knowedgable player and had, I think, a solid amount of skill...I still went through them. Sure, for me as a former 80's shredder, chunks of it were not needed. It was still a useful excercize. Why? To grab that thing you might not have thought of.

I was almost totally self taught. This means I learned very little as far as rules and good base knowledge. Now, I think I had an instinct for playing so I was able to get to a pretty advanced playing level at one point without really learning a good base level knowledge.

Sounds like I am telling you you don't really need to start from the beginning; wrong! I regret skipping all that stuff. I realize there are/were spectacular gaps in what I know and what I should know. Working through that base stuff will serve you well. You may have several instances where you go 'Oh, I got that. I know it.' but there will be things that you will go 'Oh, that's useful' or, later 'Man, I'm glad I took the time to learned that basic stuff'.

Further up the road, that baseline stuff will matter.