Hey Justin,
Dan from Thailand. Loving your website.
Why I’m I here. At 69 I decided I had wayyy too much idle time on my retired butt and needed a hobbie. So? Guitar. Now at 71 I’d spent the last two year hopping from guitar lesson site to another. None of them gave me what I was looking for.
“Ok Dan from Thailand, what where you looking for?”
I know my learning style. I learn best in highly structured environments. None of the sites that I subscribed to presented course material in highly structured ways that also were comprehensive as well as integrated.
“Comprehensive?”
Yep. Not just learning a set of chord shapes followed by some tab, or discussing theory that goes so far above me head that I go numb, or seeing how fast I can play a scale that I learned from rote and don’t really understand.
Comprehensive - pulling all the aspect of playing music and songs together and presenting them in an integrated manner.
“Integrated”
Yep. Your course integrates playing chords, strumming, basic theory, ear training, and scales right from the beginning and point all the knowledge at a goal! Being able to play songs!!!
“So Dan from Thailand, why Music Theory.”
Because from where I stand, learning the skills to play the songs is a journey of combining techniques as well as knowledge to facilitate the playing of those songs.
Let me give you an example from today. These two post pretty much explain it in video form.
Ear training leading to an understanding of intervals
And intervals as applied to learning scales - anywhere on the fretboard. “Presto - magic!”
Bottom line? It’s challenging and it’s fun. For the first time in two years of playing? I’m having fun! And I’m learning songs! That’s why Music Theory!