Inspiring A Teenager
Said I'd show a few riffs and stuff to a friend's 13 year old son. I'd observed that someone had shown him a really bad version of 'Smoke On The Water' previouslyso I didn't want to presume my interests were relevant to a youngster. When I asked what he wanted to learn he didn't have much idea at all...so we're dealing with a blank slate here!
I said I'd throw a playlist together so he could skim through and choose where to get interested...but I don't want to be too wide of the mark to start with...think I'll hold back on the Allan Holdsworth stuff
Can I call upon the collective forum wisdom to get us started? Tunes need to be recognisable enough after a little assistance from me and cool enough to impress friends and relatives.
Let's hear some suggestions...
a non cynical Q. Why ??? , sounds to me like he really doesnt want to know/learn and its the dad whos driving this ??. If a teenager really wanted to learn, hed have a list as long as his clearasil tube...........so maybe you're on a hiding to nothing already................... pretty sure someone else posted a "simialr-ish" thread a while back !??!
Just a thought............you cant really teach teenagers, just guide them in their learning !?!?!
......"Bertie is pretty much a zen master..................."
^ What bertie said.
If it were a case of him saying "I want to play Django Reinhart covers eventually...but can we start with something a wee bit less advanced?" I'd say go for nice big chorused songs with strum-along easy open chords.
I'm trying not to say "Oasis songs" but....Oasis songs.
Good points...if I could remember back to being 13, I'd recall wanting something but not having any idea what was out there...no interwebz back then of course so all we had was Top 40 radio and parents' record collection. It all changed when someone's cousin made 'The Rock Tape' (tm) featuring Gary Moore, Layla, Status Quo, Magnum(!), Ozzy, Sabbath...27 years later, I still have the tape in a drawer somewhere.
It's not a personal vanity exercise...I believe there's a desire to play cool stuff but having the drive to learn and make it stick is a different thing. When someone took the time to show me a morsel back then it was a precious thing...my head almost exploded the day I saw 'Hot For Teacher' happen in front of my eyes
I'd say make it all about having fun. Get an fx box out and make daft noises together for a time.
Lolagement...fond memories of chaining fuzz pedals together and a delay or two...then we got bored of guitar and plugged a mic inOriginally Posted by frankus
I'd say make it all about having fun. Get an fx box out and make daft noises together for a time.
Ask him what's on his iPod
So, three or four-chord strummers, then?
Well, it's got to include the mighty "Wonderwall";
Er, Guns'n Roses, probably "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" before the more riffy stuff;
I'd stick some Beatles ballads in, just because they're famous and easy; even Yellow Sub?
Bit of AC/DC seems to go down well, Highway or Back in Black; and, as you say, Smoke OTW, and the James Bond theme;
Bruno Mars? Ed Sheeran? Mumfords? Jason Mraz? Even had a request for James bleedin bloody Blunt the other day
Hth...
feck me I did, thats why I wanted to play guitar, cos of the songs I knew/liked/wanted to play............ playing the songs was key, learning guitar was secondary - if you get me drift
......"Bertie is pretty much a zen master..................."
We wanted to sing songs like Frank Zappa - playing instruments was secondaryfeck me I did, thats why I wanted to play guitar, cos of the songs I knew/liked/wanted to play............ playing the songs was key, learning guitar was secondary - if you get me drift
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