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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 6274838" data-attributes="member: 83805">In general, I don't think it was the most "efficient" way to learn.   For example, it took me over a month to figure out how to tune a  guitar, without using a tuner.Also some bad habits I developed  initially, took quite awhile to eventually break.  For example, my  picking technique was mostly downstrokes for the first year or so.  It  took awhile for me to break that bad habit, and eventually figure out  how to do alternate picking (ie. alternating downstrokes and upstrokes).If I had a teacher/tutor, most likely they would have immediately pointed out these problematic areas.With  that being said, I didn't have much patience or discipline in those  days.  So I was perfectly fine with doings things in a haphazard trial  and error manner.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />For my initial intentions, this approach did work albeit haphazardly.  At the time, I wanted to play stuff like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Judas Priest, KISS, Sex Pistols, Sepultura, Black Sabbath, Anthrax, etc ...  (It turned out a lot of the guitar riffs from these bands, were largely simple power chord progressions and relatively easy to play).  I was able to play a lot of this stuff within a year or so, largely by ear and a lot of trial and error.After that first year or so, I had to break some bad habits to be able to play somewhat harder stuff like Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, etc ... which were a lot more than just easy power chord progressions.  I was also attempting to figure out how to play guitar solos at the time too, also largely from trial and error.It took me around 5 years, until I was able to approximately transcribe the easier guitar solos by ear,  such as stuff like Motley Crue, KISS, some Kingdom Come, some Metallica, etc ...  It took me even longer until I was able to approximately transcribe guitar solos of stuff like "Eruption" (Van Halen), Ozzy Osbourne, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc ... by ear.  (For me, I thought Van Halen was somewhat harder than Yngwie Malmsteen).(This is getting too far off topic).</blockquote>

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