[timhsu87]

I have been playing acoustic guitar in church for ten years. I am quite comfortable with strumming chords and playing arpeggios for worship songs. I want to upgrade my skills so I am looking to learn new skills in fingerpicking, flatpicking, solo, scales etc. I know that Paul Baloche's acoustic guitar dvd is good and fret board logic is good. What other instructional dvds have you found really helpful?

[dailybeans]

I sincerely hope I don't sound full of myself when I say this, but I've yet to find an instructional dvd that teaches me something that I haven't already learned through my 3 years of experience with guitar.

I've found that just listening to music and copying the sounds I hear as closely as possible has given me
the skills that I wanted without ever having to do scales or any other excercises.

But different people have different ways of learning

[jeepnstein]

It's pure drudgery but I have found the Mel Bay books are worth the effort.

[timhsu87]

Yeah, I learn better when I can watch somebody demonstrate than reading a book.

[scared2mosh]

Take music classes at the local community college.

[relient nelson]

Originally Posted by dailybeans

I sincerely hope I don't sound full of myself when I say this, but I've yet to find an instructional dvd that teaches me something that I haven't already learned through my 3 years of experience with guitar.

I've found that just listening to music and copying the sounds I hear as closely as possible has given me
the skills that I wanted without ever having to do scales or any other excercises.

But different people have different ways of learning

After only three years? What instructional dvds are you watching?

[dailybeans]

Originally Posted by relient nelson

After only three years? What instructional dvds are you watching?

I've watched the Lincoln Brewster ones, along with Paul Baloche, and Hillsong Creative Training.

And as a side note, learning to play Dave Matthews Band songs has worked wonders on my finger skills!

[WARRIOR2]

Go online to Jam Play.com. I've learned a lot from them.

There is a fee for some stuff, but there are free lessons too..woth lookin at definitely!

[metropolis4]

Originally Posted by timhsu87

Yeah, I learn better when I can watch somebody demonstrate than reading a book.

Not that there's anything wrong with that... but maybe that would be a good thing to work on. If you can learn to use written materials better to learn music rather than having to watch someone demonstrate it will open up a lot more possibilities for things you can learn.

[DropKick74]

I really like the book BLUES YOU CAN USE... I know, It doesn't really fall into the worship category but it does a great job at teaching you how to move around the fretboard with both chords and scales. It starts with obvioulsy blues scales, penatonics, and 7th chords to feed the inner bluesman in you however it eventually breaks things into more traditional scales like your majors and minors and such. Like I said, it does a really good job at getting you to move across the fretboard. It also gets more in depth as you mover through the series. (there a couple books with the same title thing "blues you can use" then theres "more blues you can use" and so on. ) I haven't gotten out of the first one yet just because there is a lot of info in the book but I intend on completing the series.