Educational Experience

At first I tried to teach myself to play the guitar. I was discouraged after a few months of feeling of as of I was accomplishing absolutely nothing. Although I believed I could accomplish the task of learning to play an instrument on my own, I agreed to take lessons because I really wanted to be able to sit around the campfire and strum a merry tune of someone else's adventures. During my first lesson my instructor asked me how I learned, or rather what subjects in school came easy to me.  I responded with science and math. He would then tailor the lessons to teach me in a way I could understand. He asked for songs I wanted to learn to play or artists I enjoyed listening to. I told him of my favorite artist. Before I left for the week he showed me all sorts of different strumming techniques and played a few difficult songs. I was fascinated. After a week I came back, guitar in hand. He had letters and lines written down on a paper with the title of one of my favorite songs at the top. On the other side of the paper was the neck of a guitar with hand written numbers in different places. I recognized these as chords, some of which I could already play. He was only teaching me four chords. The important lesson, however was the pattern in which the were played, and deeper then that the way each chord was strummed. After only two weeks I could play a song. Not only that but along with teaching me a song he taught me other chords and scales. He wasn't only trying to teach me how to play songs but also write them. Now I can play many songs many of which are a bit complex.