#1332852 - 12/21/00 03:34 AM
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What was your first guitar teacher's name? I'm from Kokomo, Indiana and began lessons in June of 1974 with a Jazz guitarist named Malcom Bender. And no, he didn't play a Fender which would have made him a Fender Bender. He actually played an EKO acoustic and a Gibson and Gretcsh big body electric.
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#1332853 - 12/21/00 06:28 AM
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bluedawg@mail.com
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my first guitar teacher was the first van halen album. learned how to play by listening to that album.wore out the album and the cassette. back in 1985. now i play blues/classic rock,mostly acoustic.
funny how you change as you get older huh?
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#1332854 - 12/21/00 02:00 PM
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Lisa
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My first teacher was a lady named Ronnie Esagui. I started lessons with her when I was 7 years old. She taught me all the basics of reading music and playing classical guitar, which helped to strengthen my fingers at a young age and gave me a strong foundation in music theory. Everything she taught me in those formative years has helped me so much later in life. Ronnie, you're the best!
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#1332855 - 12/21/00 02:20 PM
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Steve Lambert in Milwaukee Wisconsin around 1980. I dearly wish I could find him. He was great.
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#1332856 - 12/21/00 10:07 PM
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Tedster
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A guy named Alan Williams from Sarnia, Ontario. I was like 13 or 14. Showed me how to tune it and my first couple of chords. I pretty much took it from there. I had a couple lessons from the Mel Bay book from a guy named Steve, I think, at Quinlan's Music Store (long defunct) in Port Huron, Mich.
Kinda funny, 'cause years later, I was playing a bar in Port Huron, and these two guys were sitting at a table having a beer, and one of 'em says, "Hey Ted, remember me?" I didn't recognize the guy. It was Alan Williams. Hadn't seen him for years! I was nervous like, hey, I hope he thinks I'm an okay player...
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#1332857 - 12/22/00 02:25 AM
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Roger Chernenburg
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My first teacher was "The Wolfman". A guy named Don Wolf (or was it Wolfe?). Great player.. pretty good teacher.
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#1332858 - 01/23/01 05:40 PM
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Gator Wing
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My first guitar teacher was Toba. My Dad was stationed in Japan, and instruments and lessons were cheap. It cost 100 yen in 1965 for a half-hour lesson (about 28 cents back then).
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#1332859 - 01/23/01 08:23 PM
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SteveRB
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When I started at age 14 I had the choice of two teachers, I chose Dennis Dunkly. He was a southern rock guy...Allman Bros., Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc. The teacher I didn't pick was Kerry Livgren. Yes, the guitarist/keyboardist for the group Kansas. I had the same influences as Kerry and I've always wondered what it would have been like to have him for a teacher. My teacher and him used to break into the song "dueling banjos" on guitars all the time (you could hear everything through the thin walls)
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#1332860 - 01/25/01 11:26 PM
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Jimi
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#1332861 - 01/25/01 11:56 PM
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bshogry
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George Harrison
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#1332862 - 01/26/01 04:02 PM
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murph
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Three days after I bought my first guitar, I went to the local store to see about getting lessons. The owner told me to hold out my hands, looked at them and said, "They're too small. You'll never be able to play well." I went and taught myself with books, mags, videos... about five years later my band was headlining a big club in town, and his store was having his "going out of business" sale. I went in and gave him a couple of comp tickets. It was the least I could do...
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#1332863 - 01/29/01 11:58 PM
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My First Teacher was my friend Mike. He had an old Les Paul copy and could play some OZZY tunes. I remember thinking he was the greatest. I learned as much as I could then saw Andy Summers Play "Every Breath you Take" on the live televised tour. I taped it and must have spent a couple of days trying to figure out the stretch Nine chords. Think I had been playing 2 months. What a great memory!!!!
Andy Summers really blew me away.
After that I went on to study at the University of North Texas jazz program. There I really found out - what great was.
After that I spent 8 years playing rock and blues in clubs around Texas. That was my real education....
I am still in awe of the guitar. The more you think you know the less you really do. So God Bless the teachers.
Best,
Brian Kahanek
Sidewinder Music Productions
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#1332864 - 01/30/01 04:52 PM
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I never had one ( hangs head and chokes back the tears !!).
Really though I sometimes wish I had but I learnt by listening to other players I think in retrospect this way has good and bad. The bad side is technicaly I wouldn't honestly be able to say that I truly know the name of every chord and inversion I play... thank heavens they just seem to work and sometimes some quite unsual inversions bring new ideas to the tunes. On the plus side, I was having a discussion with a very good friend of mine who is the principal viola player for a big orchestra here in the U.K., and the thing he finds very difficult is to improvise. Over the years the technique and formality of his classical training makes it very hard for him, if you take away the dots and just ask him to play from the heart. I have never had that problem. Having no formal training to have to take account of means that I feel kinda unrestricted and can just do what feels good.
Simon
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#1332865 - 02/01/01 08:46 PM
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john@mtv.com
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G'n'R Appetite for Destruction came out in 1987. That was it for me. First teacher was a guy named Osamo Affifi. I think he was the bass player for Yanni a couple of years later
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