het bigfan,

guitar lessons can make you a better guitarist.. if you had natural abilities t o begin with, like common sense ,creativity, a hard work ethic, a decent ear etc. Lesson alone will not make you great. That being said, you dont need guitar lessons to be a great guitarist. You need some natural abilities like common sense, creativity, a hard work ethic. a decent ear etc, get my point. THere have been great guitar players from both schools of thinking and all imbetween.

I wish I knew how to play!
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But in my mind I've been devolping songs for a long time and I know what to do. Including Understanding Complexity (teach12.com) of using math and Engineering technical indicators to develop interactions within songs. I just never have learned a musical talent, yet.

And yep, I don't have the time like when I was a teenager just to think what a good song could be. I got a full time job that interupts and other life stuff. They eventually get put aside.

Not that I have plans at 50 yrs old but I do need to get good enough to make songs while I'm trading stocks on the internet from which tradingacademy.com has taught me what's going on. The Stock Market has something to do with everything I've ever have seen in life.

It will take me a couple of years. Then I'm not looking to travel but it sure has me wishing like I was a young guy again. "Jumping Into the Fire" like Nielson Shmilson say's.

I sure wish I was there already, but then if I was, some and almost all the songs would be boring.

I'm going to have to quit my day job, I think.

And I'd love to share with Ozzy new stuff. I took a walk some where and I'm beginning on a staying up and partying for 24 hours song.

If I write anything crazy on the internet, just say so and I'll figure something else out.

I started playing probley in early 2008 or late 2007 i dont practice much, but when i first got the guitar i picked it up and was just randomly strumming s*** i really didnt know what i was doing i probley could of figured fretboard out if i sat down and looked at it.

I watched the beggining of the dvd guitar lesson that came with my guitar, the chromatic scale exercise and i stopped watching the dvd that's only part i watched, the chromatic scale taught me how the fretboard works, i havent even finished watching the guitar lesson dvd i refuse lol, i had a scale book i read a pentatonic, but i was like f*** this im not gonna sit around reading this bulls*** im just gonna go for it.

and i actually make up new riffs every f***in time pick up the guitar man,and i dont practice much because i never bought a good amp lol i play without a amp, hell f***in dimebag used to play guitar without amp walking around his house carry it anywhere he went lol from stories i read.

Way i see it, it's cool to learn basic lay out of how the guitar fretboard works, but when you start learning getting deep into music theroy/scales bulls*** you just play less of what you feel you just play the bulls*** scales u learn.

See players like jimi hendrix learned what a pentatonic scale is and based his knownledge on that s*** made up new tricks/s*** as he went along the pentatonic taught him how fretboard works.

When you start learning all these guitar tricks deep music theory scales and s*** you start to just not play as much what you feel, but what u read lol.

Guitar lessons doesnt make you a good guitarist the most influentual guitarist didnt take lessons.

there's some decent guitarist out there who took lessons but they havent been as influentual as those who didnt take lessons.