Hey LoveGuitar,

Here's another Trumpeter who took up the guitar many moons ago.

I also had a lot of piano lessons at one time.

As for a live teacher for you, I would give a qualified YES to the question and that qualifier has to do with you finding the RIGHT teacher. Since you know the Trumpet, you should want a teacher who teaches from the notation staff if at all possible IMHO, not one who leans mostly on Guitar TAB, and that is because you very likely already know how to read, how to count and how to decipher rhythm figures on the fly or at least with a minute of study. The really neat aspect of that is the fact that the Guitar is written in the Treble Clef only (but the instrument sounds one octave lower than the written note).

There are also some really great guitar tutorial softwares available separately from PGMusic that I recommend without reserve. Here you have a system that is very much like having a live teacher, but at your beck and call as to time, just load it onto the computer and have at it. And the ability to go back and repeat whole lessons or parts thereof is sheer dynamite.

One thing about music performance that I love is that the "old dog, new tricks" bromide really does not apply. Matter of fact, the consummate musician should be always thinking about music, always working on something new, always running over old things to keep them shiny, well, having known some of the real greats in the bidness and seeing firsthand how they continued to keep on keepin' on with it well into their 90's as most do left a different impression on yours truly about that.

Welcome to the fun!


--Mac

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