Paul gilbert: national guitar workshop interview

News:
24-05-2008:
National guitar workshop interview Paul Gilbert. Here's an excerpt:



Paul says:
Yeah, my very first teacher when I was 6 was a big influence, because it was so boring that I quit guitar. When I was about 11 I had a much better teacher who was methodical but at the same time he did two things that were really great. The first was he showed me the basic musical tools like chords, scales and being able to learn those using diagrams. The other thing was he was very insistent on learning repertoire. Every week he would have a new song to work on and it was the next step since I had been playing be ear before then. To me that remains such an important and fun part of being a musician and it is rare that you come across someone who is an advanced musician and doesn’t know a lot of tunes.


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