I was 13 when I met an extraordinary guitarist by coincidence.
It happened when one of my vocal teachers introduced me to her teen neighbor who she thought, played guitar very well. He is a very well accomplished and respected guitarist now.
That day what he played was beyond what I could comprehend: both in skill and content.
I learnt primarily by watching very good musicians playing music. Real players showed me the basics. Even later on, I was 20 years old when I met an extraordinary guitarist who urged me to do more with Indian music.
This means I understood what to play on the instrument before I figured out the theory behind it or wrote anything into notes.
I started learning guitar when I was 11 years old. My first stage was within 3 months of starting to learn. I needed to show results. Correct notes, played connected and in time to sound my playing like it was meant to be.
These performers are musicians who understand theory and how to write down notation, yet they insisted on understanding the real movement and the patterns on the instrument, to get to performance level.
Our method, we insist on the final produced sound. Theoretically knowing what note to play and how isn’t enough. Playing along with the metronome with no self timing check, playing a lot of notes mediocre… we don’t go this path.
We will learn the needed theory, but music leads the path.
What will you want to play within the next two months, that will make you happy as a real playing musician? According to your skill and goals we will make variations and set a focused syllabus. We will learn how to practice using mistakes as the path, finding the postiive gap, getting to your next 1%.
While learning what matters to you, you will learn the underlying real skills that will help you keep getting better at playing music as long as you wish to.