BobYoshi
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When you run into the music teacher you had as a kid.
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When you run into the music teacher you had as a kid.
Scott Fraser
Country Gent
I have a group of jazz playing friends who refer to each other as tone-deaf little weasels.
Personally I would love to find my old guitar teacher from the '60s. I want to thank him.
Personally I would love to find my old guitar teacher from the '60s. I want to thank him.
BobYoshi
Electromatic
Oh noo 🫢
The band teacher at my high school was the kind of a guy that gave arrogant jerks a bad name. He's probably long dead, but were I ever to meet him, I'd give him an earful.
Perhaps he was just "too good" to be "just a high school band teacher" and took it out on the "ingrates who didn't know how lucky they were to have him".
Reminds me of when I started on guitar.
Found a guitar teacher in my local newspaper. He was an old guy with this strange looking old acoustic guitar.
Wanted to get me to read music, and started showing me all these strange jazz chords.
Stuck with it for a while, but found it all too boring and complicated. I just wanted to play rock 'n roll.
Found out in later years he was a top Gypsy Jazz player, was a personal friend of Django Reinhardt, and the 'strange looking old guitar was a Maccaferri!
If only I'd stuck with it.
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Found a guitar teacher in my local newspaper. He was an old guy with this strange looking old acoustic guitar.
Wanted to get me to read music, and started showing me all these strange jazz chords.
Stuck with it for a while, but found it all too boring and complicated. I just wanted to play rock 'n roll.
Found out in later years he was a top Gypsy Jazz player, was a personal friend of Django Reinhardt, and the 'strange looking old guitar was a Maccaferri!
If only I'd stuck with it.
Louis Gallo
Louis Gallo ~ Guitarist, Teacher, Composer, (1907-1988) Louis Gallo Guitarist Louis Gallo was a respected Guitar player, Teacher & Composer. He was one of the 1st Guitar Players in London to ac…
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cielski
Senior Gretsch-Talker
Quite possibly. He enjoyed bullying certain students, while obviously favoring others.
The year that I was in one of his classes coincided with a year when I was undergoing some serious health problems. A few months later, I had a serious brush with death, but after beating the odds, my health improved markedly.
He had moved on to another job by then, but came back to visit the school and actually made a point of coming over and telling me that he had taken note of how much I had improved. It was intended as a compliment, but ignored the fact that I had been fighting a serious health issue the year before, and that had affected my performance as a student.
I’m willing to believe that his intentions were good, but his manner was inappropriate. One thing I’ve learned from life is that it‘s easy to criticize others, while not realizing that they may actually be struggling with problems that may be difficult to detect. Perhaps it’s as simple as giving others the benefit of the doubt, and it is my opinion that anyone serving in the role of teaching in the public schools should be careful not to abuse the power inherent in their position.
A chapter from your life?
cielski
Senior Gretsch-Talker
Standard sound guy joke---"Who turned up the suck knob on these guys?"A chapter from your life?
Fledgling producer once asked over ICOM, "How should we end this show?"
My response was, "In a hail of gunfire?"
I retired---didn't get sacked.
Danno
Gretschie
I had a saxophone teacher like that in fourth grade. He was so strict, think bootcamp from the movie Full Metal Jacket ... I quit a few months in. One of the other kids in that class is an extremely famous professional player Leon Silva who tours with Justin Timberlake.
I met my guitar teacher when I was 27 and wanted to take lessons after only being self-taught up to that point. He is fantastic we've become very close friends over the years and thanks to zoom I can still take lessons with him living two states away.
I present to you the coolest guitar teacher ever: Sam Davis who played professionally in jazz, country, and funk bands.
I met my guitar teacher when I was 27 and wanted to take lessons after only being self-taught up to that point. He is fantastic we've become very close friends over the years and thanks to zoom I can still take lessons with him living two states away.
I present to you the coolest guitar teacher ever: Sam Davis who played professionally in jazz, country, and funk bands.
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Stingray70
Gretschie
I just recently found out that my old guitar teacher from the early 80s, the one who first taught me how to play guitar, had just passed away.. I found out when I was in a guitar shop in the middle of buying
an orange Korean Gretsch 5420T that was his.. I didn't know until the owner started explaining who the guitar I was buying belonged to and that he was a good friend of his, that we both figured it out... I think it was meant to be... I took lessons from him for about a year and a half... I'm very glad to have gotten it. I think he would have been happy to know that I still play and that I have his guitar.
an orange Korean Gretsch 5420T that was his.. I didn't know until the owner started explaining who the guitar I was buying belonged to and that he was a good friend of his, that we both figured it out... I think it was meant to be... I took lessons from him for about a year and a half... I'm very glad to have gotten it. I think he would have been happy to know that I still play and that I have his guitar.
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BobYoshi
Electromatic
Hey
Thank you for sharing this. RIP. May the guitar always be treasured.
This is good karma at its best.
I slapped one of my guitar teachers across the face. Worst teacher ever. Only been there 3 lessons. I had no idea about lap steel guitar and he was really impatient and rude. He was teaching me something and I just couldn’t get it and he said “You’re not the brightest are you, have you always been this stupid?”. Not standing for that rudeness.
Reminds me of when I started on guitar.
Found a guitar teacher in my local newspaper. He was an old guy with this strange looking old acoustic guitar.
Wanted to get me to read music, and started showing me all these strange jazz chords.
Stuck with it for a while, but found it all too boring and complicated. I just wanted to play rock 'n roll.
Found out in later years he was a top Gypsy Jazz player, was a personal friend of Django Reinhardt, and the 'strange looking old guitar was a Maccaferri!
If only I'd stuck with it.
Louis Gallo
Louis Gallo ~ Guitarist, Teacher, Composer, (1907-1988) Louis Gallo Guitarist Louis Gallo was a respected Guitar player, Teacher & Composer. He was one of the 1st Guitar Players in London to ac…
Great story, I read the attachment, pretty cool.
mister rain
Synchromatic
ah yes, the fabled suck knob
I was very fortunate to have a lovely little old lady as my piano-teacher when I was six years old. Very early she realised that I am not the most gifted interpreter of written music.
But I always enjoyed improvisation and writing my own songs. So she pushed me to do just that and gave me the theoretic tools to do so.
After 8 years of having her as my teacher it was my younger brother`s turn to have piano lessons. Because my parents did not have deep pockets they could not afford to pay lessons for both of us.
I was in tears.
But I always enjoyed improvisation and writing my own songs. So she pushed me to do just that and gave me the theoretic tools to do so.
After 8 years of having her as my teacher it was my younger brother`s turn to have piano lessons. Because my parents did not have deep pockets they could not afford to pay lessons for both of us.
I was in tears.
Runamok
Country Gent
Btw, Gary Larson took guitar lessons from Herb Ellis.
