Brad Bordessa
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I'm curious whether anyone here has taken Terry's guitalele course, and what they think about it. I have a Cordoba Mini on order and am debating whether to take lessons, or try and figure the thing out myself based on my knowledge of the uke. Although, as a number have mentioned, there are many folks out there offering uke lessons, guitalele lessons are very hard to come by. Yes, one could always take guitar lessons and transpose everything to A, but that seems like a lot of bother, especially for someone new to the instrument.
I don't know anything about the course, but maybe I can offer some food for thought:
The fact that he offers a guitalele course strikes me as a little strange. I'm surprised that there is enough demand to make it lucrative.
I guess he's a guitar player so the content is easy for him. Which is a consideration. Do you want to learn to play:
- Guitalele
- *Guitar* ON a guitalele
- *'Ukulele* ON a guitalele?
I have a hard time believing anyone around is qualified to truly teach guitalele as its own instrument. Anything you get will come either from a uke or guitar angle.
Really, a crossover instrument like that is a comitment. You're going to be transposing and/or figuring out a lot yourself. It's a fact of life unless you want to really limit your options. Trying to lean on few and far between courses or lessons just because they're "for" that specific instrument is probably not the way to go when there is a huge wealth of amazing guitar pedagogy you could study.
FWIW, I feel like I learned uke from 75% guitar material simply because it was available and it was better quality. Things have changed, but not for guitalele.
Just my $.02. I need to do a podcast on this subject (learning crossover instruments and tunings) to break my thoughts down better.