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@fatberg really valid points you have made, my teacher plays alot during my lessons grateful that i turn up with a battered fender strat, he brings his equally relicked Gibson Les Paul and power amp, whilst the rest of his pupils are acoustic guitarists going through their ABCs, i have access to tons of stuff off-syllabus during these lessons and i am blitzing through it so i see this as a great investment, which I find very encouraging, and everything is relative around guitar playing we hit AC/DC Metallica Nirvana, Van Halen to Parliament and Funkadelic.
Unless i learn the correct way first, and this is just my opinion these lessons would be deemed meaningless. also he knows every Nile Rodgers and Bob Marley chord pattern as he is sn accomplished band leader and composer. the thumb-over "barre" chord thing by Hendrix will come in time, i have also studied Eric Gales playing style which I enjoy, posted previously
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Hmmm... not many jazz, funk, soul reggae or rock standards were written or played by people with classical training or technique. I'm not saying your teacher isn't good... but if you want to play the stuff you mention, is a classical foundation the way to go?
If you want to learn that stuff, why not find someone who'll teach you that stuff? Sure you need a few rudiments, but sitting upright with your guitar on the "wrong" knee, thumb behind the neck and plucking the right hand in classical style isn't going to work for... well any of it.
for example, it's way harder to play loads of Hendrix stuff without using the thumb-over "barre" chord thing that any classical teacher will beat out of you.