+1 He's really good at what he does and he's a lot better than me, but not a prodigy. He's probably been playing since he was 3 years old and had some tiger parents hovering over him to be sure he stays on course.
There's a little girl up the street from me who plays the violin. I photographed her for promo materials. She's a huge deal in China and has been accepted to Julliard. She's 16 now. If you start early and stay dedicated, by the time you're 16, you have 10 or 12 years of intense training under your belt. It make you practiced not a prodigy.

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another prodigy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9xEu9BWNxg

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In Reference to Blues Legend RL Burnside:
After a heart attack in 2001, Burnside's doctor advised him to stop drinking; Burnside did, but he reported that change left him unable to play.

Super Kid... I agree with you.. God forbid you give honest feedback on this list that is critical...

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In Reference to Blues Legend RL Burnside:
After a heart attack in 2001, Burnside's doctor advised him to stop drinking; Burnside did, but he reported that change left him unable to play.

Julia Dale
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_d ... nba-wp4339

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

Super kid, I'v been meaning to ask you a question.

Do you take lessons? I'm 13 now, got my first guitar at age 12 and tinkered around with it for like 8 months and started taking lessons in August because I wanted to get serious.

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My YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/fenderflamestrat?

I just hope he still enoys playing when he's 60

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancin'

Nope... I don''t beleve in lessons.(or propper spelling )

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I LIKE PIE!!!!!

IF I DO SOMETHING STUPID,DON'T SAY A WORD...

That doesn't even make sense.... like.... at all....

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

"believe" Thats how you spell it...

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I LIKE PIE!!!!!

IF I DO SOMETHING STUPID,DON'T SAY A WORD...

A word of advice grasshoppers, take lessons, learn music theory and if possible, learn to sight read. It will make you a much more versatile and rounded player. I didn't, and now I'm a geezer with a lot of bad playing habits and limited abilities. I can play blues that can make you smile and cry and some really aggressive rock, but I'm pretty lost on Jazz. I have many more friends in the same boat. One is an incredible player as long as it's Classic Rock. Venture outside that and you find his limitations. I wish i gotten more into Jazz and Classical music as well as "Chicken Pickin". Another plus is if you know all this stuff, you can teach and make some cash.

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Life...... It's sexually transmitted and always fatal

wise words here 63supro. thing is, its way to long to add to my signature below.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

I started playing much later than you (at age 19)...I had the same attitude, but possibly for different reasons.

I was determined to be a "bluesman" and believed since Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and many of my heroes had not taken lessons, I shouldn't do so either...plus, I wanted to develop my own style, not become a clone of a particular teacher.

Also, at the time I started playing, many/most of the instructors in my area were shredders who worshipped at the Altar of Yngwie, and that definitely wasn't in my gameplan...many of them had the attitude of, "Why would I try to inject some soul into my playing? I can play 42 million notes per measure!"

I developed bad habits galore (I still can't play a C-chord right) and limited understanding of music theory.

Eventually I hit a plateau that lasted for a couple of years, so I sought out an instructor that fit my desires as a player. I made more progress in three months than I had made in three years. Little things that were lost on me became clear and fell into place much more easily.

...and this instruction helped to define and develop my own style even further.

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Good Vibes To Y'all!



Screamin' Armadillos
Texas Roadhouse Music
Guitar/Slide Guitar/Harp/Vocals

This is basically the same thing for me, I'm 16 and when I got my first guitar 2 and a half years ago I just felt like teaching myself and I was able to do single note riffs really well after 6 months but I couldn't get chords for anything. I was then encouraged by a friend to take lessons and had them for 8 months.

During those 8 months I learned more then I could have hoped to learn without someone to guide me. The only reason I no longer take lessons is that I moved to a different city and we can no longer afford it.

On the matter of lessons not allowing you to develop your own style, that's not true at all depending on the teacher. My teacher asked me on the first day what type of music I liked and from there he chose some things that would prepare me to eventually get there, I wanted to play classic rock and he gave me some blues stuff that helped allot later on. The thing that really helped with me becoming my own player is he taught me a bunch of scales and such and we worked on my improvisation which has now allowed me to write a couple of songs. The lessons also made me so good at improv that last year at an art fair (I was the leader of guitar club) me and a couple of friends that played guitar together were asked to participate and I was asked to improvise on most songs (I did play rhythm on a couple).

In conclusion lessons are great and help you become a great player much faster then if you taught yourself, and that's a fact.

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Tomaz

Gear:
2007 electron blue MIM standard strat
Mustang I amp, small but deadly
fender CD-140 sce acoustic
squier affinity strat
frontman amp came with squier.
digitech multi-effects pedal

I'm lucky enough to have a teacher who's the guitarist for the biggest ska band in the state and a damn good jazz player. I learn a lot of stuff that is traditionally applied to jazz and then apply it to my own music, sounds cool.

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

But you never see any of those "prodigy" kids grow up to be famous though.

Still you gotta love the Jaggermeister strap: