Originally Posted by: jim1963Hello,
Well another member described my many year guitar journey pretty well "try hard - fail, try harder - fail, and give up frustrated". I am the type to be "all in" for a short period of time purchase everything, read everything, and expect timely results - only to give up too soon.
Ok, so I have a problem and am thinking thus far after a month on GT this might be the cure!
Raced through Lisa's classes and have been in my "music room" about two hours a day. I have a Seagull S6 acoustic and Epiphone Les Paul Studio boucing between them both based on finger fatigue (acoustic for technique until fingers hurt then an hour on electic). I study techniques for an hour in the morning and then play some songs for an hour late day.
My entire reason for playing guitar is I love slow tempo jazz guitar played on electric with a few slow strummed chords and finger playing. Trouble is that seems "5 picks difficulty" away and a very difficult barre chords journey ahead and typically I just give up. I am not a big rock fan but am going through the basic lessons playing beginner songs like Simple Man, Perfect, and Hotel California, and must admit I like the progress and sense of accomplishment. I don't know what to do after guitar basics but will try to compile that lesson plan (no clue how to construct my journey).
I am going to try and stick with it and hope the journey at some point gives me the talent to try a few jazz progressions and along the way if I can play some easy rock and have a smile while doing it - ALL GOOD.
Good luck to other IGT's!!!
Jim
Hi there,
I'm glad you're having fun with the course! We do not have a Jazz course within our Core Learning System, but I think if you stick with it and get through both Guitar Fundamentals level 1 and level 2 courses, you will be in good shape.
I recommend giving blues level 1 a shot, as some of the techniques there bleed over into the jazz genre.
We do have a series of Jazz guitar lessons from Christopher, and they're really great. However, they are a bit advanced and requires you to have some knowledge of 7th chords, and are able to switch around barre chords easily but I think you should still give it a look here: https://www.guitartricks.com/style.php?input=jazz
Christopher's Jazz Guitar set of tutorials is the one I'm referring to.
I hope that helps!