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xo guitarmos: please help me teach my 12 year old daughter guitar.
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Date: June 19th, 2026 9:49 AM Author: dupa I'm not a "real" guitarist. Mostly self taught, basically no technical knowledge or advanced skillset but i've been playing long enough that I can do a few hackey things to fool the ignorant.
Daughter is very musical. Much more so than I am. She has a couple years of school violin but no private lessons which is prob a mistake. She's a great singer too and has expressed an interest in learning guitar kind of as an accompaniment.
Within 30 or so min yesterday I taught her all of the open chords and she was already able to switch pretty smoothly including G to D. Immediately she also had the coordination to sing while playing.
I'd like her also to learn the fretboard and have a deeper understanding of the instrument but i don't want her to be a clown hack like her dad. She's already really busy, so I don't think formal lessons are realistic right now.
Looking for suggestions for exercises, concepts, resources etc. to share with her. Ty. |
Date: June 19th, 2026 9:53 AM Author: .,.,.,.,.,...,.,,.,,.....,.,..,.,,...,.,.,,...,. start her on an acoustic guitar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5875537&forum_id=2#49948263) |
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Date: June 19th, 2026 9:55 AM Author: dupa ok what's step 2? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5875537&forum_id=2#49948266) |
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Date: June 19th, 2026 9:54 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, is that sequential series of Hal Leonard books too simple for her? they build in a logical way. Berklee has a set like that and so do a few others. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5875537&forum_id=2#49948264) |
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Date: June 19th, 2026 9:55 AM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv it all starts with an acoustic guitar-- even at 12 a used Martin or Taylor with a smallish nut width 1.68" and of course proper instruction learning theory and chords (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5875537&forum_id=2#49948267) |
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Date: June 19th, 2026 10:01 AM Author: dupa Yeah i've got 2 yamahas acoustic: 1 child and 1 adult.
So the proper instruction thing is what I'm after. I really know shockingly few chord structures and nothing that could be described as "theory". My technical knowledge is limited to knowing basical major/minor scales, first 2 modes, relative major/minor, pentatonic scale. Where can I go to find good exercises or resources to teach her stuff that I don't know? |
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Date: June 19th, 2026 10:10 AM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv Personal instruction and/or guitar camps- is recommended because she is a performer and playing in front of an instructor will encourage growth and development instead of being stuck self taught (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5875537&forum_id=2#49948277) |
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Date: June 19th, 2026 10:13 AM Author: dupa Is there a way for me to find the things she should learn and teach them to her in lieu of signing up for recurring private lessons with an instructor? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5875537&forum_id=2#49948281) |
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Date: June 19th, 2026 10:24 AM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv Molly Tuttle offers YouTube lessons and personal instruction on Skype -- total immersion is best for a budding player like your dotter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5875537&forum_id=2#49948303) |
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Date: June 19th, 2026 10:19 AM Author: gay of hormuz 180 #girldad content keep it coming dupa |
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Date: June 19th, 2026 10:21 AM Author: gaetan dugas Just put her on rock Smith
The little lesson games are great for the beginning mine loved the duck game until they learned the strings and spots and moved on to songs in the riff repeater then songs
Although getting a teacher is tcr |
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Date: June 19th, 2026 10:28 AM Author: Robert Byrd Schitt piling on to suggest private lessons. i don’t understand how she’s supposed to learn to play at all if she doesn’t even have a spare hour a week. but cancel something else if she’s too busy. learning to play an instrument well is something she can genuinely enjoy her entire life, unlike her participation in the science club or on a third traveling soccer team or whatever. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5875537&forum_id=2#49948307) |