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Originally Posted by jschmitz54
Thanks Spock,
You offer some good insights. I’m 66, been playing for about three years and I’d like to play well. It’s hard to know what I want to know when I don’t know about it. If that makes any sense at all.
I do understand what you’re saying though.
I guess I’d like to play things I’m familiar with to begin so that probably means rock, folk and 1960s and 1970s. I’ve also been drawn to blues.
As far as theory I would like to understand why music works the way it does and how to improvise.
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I would say my journey has similarities.
Started banging through 70s songs with easier chords, with influences from fellow acoustic band members.
Hit the point of wanting to learn scales, theory, chord structures. This is when Istarted lessons and opened up the musical world.
1Bottom line if you want to improvise, learning some theory would help.