Guitar Training?

Question:What do you think of this idea: Real guitar training based on the guitar hero game. Hook up a real guitar to a device that can hook up to a tv set and show you how to play and monitor your progress and correct you as you go. Somebody please make this device I will be the first one to buy it. Speaking of which, I think trying to learn guitar on your own is like re-inventing the wheel. I've been teaching myself for over a year now and even though I have improved dramatically, I think I could have been at this point in 4 months if I had a really good instructor. I know people who can play badazz guitar but suck as far as explaining things to a rookie. As soon as I can afford it going to find someone to teach me how to play. Damn I love it!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: What do you think of this idea: Real guitar training based on the guitar hero game. Hook up a real guitar to a device that can hook up to a tv set and show you how to play and monitor your progress and correct you as you go. Somebody please make this device I will be the first one to buy it. Speaking of which, I think trying to learn guitar on your own is like re-inventing the wheel. I've been teaching myself for over a year now and even though I have improved dramatically, I think I could have been at this point in 4 months if I had a really good instructor. I know people who can play badazz guitar but suck as far as explaining things to a rookie. As soon as I can afford it going to find someone to teach me how to play. Damn I love it!!

This is why I tell everyone who asks, having a teacher is the best way to learn guitar....everyone that I've seen or talked to that has taught themselves how to play have the same problem that your having.....they usually know about five songs, and may ten chords, and this is after five years of playing.....Here's an example of having a teacher....and I'm not exaggerating one bit !!!!!!!!! I started a sixteen year old boy about a month ago, he just got his first guitar for Christmas, he knew nothing about guitar....and the most amazing thing to me is that he's left handed but is playing right handed, well already he can read the music notation to al the notes in the first position, high and low....he knows about five scales, he can also play about ten chords, and change without hesitation...and knows about five songs or so.....what I love about him is that he's not worried about how fast he can play rock and roll, nor does he keep asking how long this is all going to take like a lot of other students that I have do.....every week when we get together for lessons I can tell that he's spent hours studying his previous weeks lessons.....he also listens to what I tell him, when his fingers start to hurt stop playing, play in increments troughout the day....he's getting his callouses but not enough yet so that he can play without pain, but he's getting there....I'm sure if he had his way he would play six hours a day, but I've told him that this could cause finger and hand damage, I know, I went through this in my eairly years, and all this does is take away from practic time because you can't play if your in pain !!!!! If you can't afford lessons privately then see about group lessons, there less expensive then private. Also check the bullitin boards at your local colleges....or even call them.....some students who don't have their degress yet, teach privately in your or their home, and this can be less expensive as well. If you want to learn to play correcty you much have a good teacher......If all else fails in affording a teacher then get back to me, I have a whole list of links that you can go to that are very good, but it does cost for the tutors, Cd's, videos, or DVD's, these sites want you to buy their products....but considering what's on them theire worth it.....some are usually a one time buy, others are a monthly few. Il'm not crazy about the free sites, there not very complete., but one site has six free lessons, it's http://www.jamplay.com. and another has free lessons that are suppose to be good, I haven't had the chance to check it out yet, so you be the judge, and check it out : http://www.dirk.meineke.free.fr/ and youtube also is suppose to have free lessons, what can it hurt to check it out. Well I wish you luck.....hope that someting above helps you, bye !!!!!!!!!!!

a good guitar teacher is hard to find, although to learn how to play means practice. regardless of the way to learn. If you enjoy playing you will learn to play for a lifetime, and thats what makes it funl Keep rockin.

There's lots of guitar software out there, but I don't recall having seen one that works as you describe. You'd need a midi- capable guitar, at minimum one of those old Casio DG-100s, and as I recall playing one of those did not exactly duplicate playing a real guitar.

As for hiring a real live teacher, that's what I recommend. A computer could tell you if you're exciting the proper string, but it can't tell you if you're hooking the string (and if you are, and it's not corrected, you can wind up with carpal tunnel).

To find a good teacher, try putting a note on the bulletin board at a college music department. Getting a guitar major means the teacher has been exposed to the latest teaching methods, and usually is willing to work more cheaply.

I'm sorry, but I do not see any relationship between the game, and the guitar. Try this in the mean time.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=free+gu...