For many years, I've been a frustrated guitar player. Long ago, I had a private tutor for three of four years, but I felt I wasn't learning much, and tried another one for just a few months. I attribute part of the failure to my own inadequacy for the task, and part to my teachers. There's not much to choose from where I live, and my two teachers were both expert on styles I don't like too much: I don't mind listening to them, but that's not what I'd like to do myself. The first one was into blues rock, and the second was a heavy metal guy. But if I had to name my three favourite guitar players, they'd have to be George Harrison, Scotty Moore and Carl Perkins.
Can anyone recommend a guitar course that might suit my tastes? I think what I'd enjoy the most is rockabilly. I don't mind paying for it if there isn't a good free one, but what I cannot do is attend weekly lessons. My working schedule doesn't allow that, and I know I wouldn't be playing much except in summer and at the odd weekend. I know this is not the right way to learn an instrument, since daily practice is essential, but I'd make a point to play for five-fifteen minutes every day, if not to improve, at least not to forget what I've learnt. What I'm looking for is a book / DVD / downloadable material / YouTube channel which I can get and use whenever I can, at my own pace. If I had to pay for weekly lessons, most of them would be a waste of money, as I wouldn't have been able to practise after the previous one. I suspect I'll feel frustrated at not being able to practise regularly, but I've reached a point in which I do feel frustrated at sitting back and letting the years pass without trying again.
On top of that, there's something I do not need. I learnt to play classical piano to a professional level (though I've never done so), so I am fluent at reading music, I know all the theory behind chords and scales (which doesn't mean I know how to play them with a guitar), and I don't need people telling me what common time, a sharp or a semiquaver are. I'd like to find a guitar course starting on a basic level, but not a music course starting on a basic level. And, oh, one more thing... My written English is not bad, but I'm in big trouble where spoken English is involved. So I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to profit from that excellent guitar tutor with the broad Appalachian accent, unless his videos have subtitles!
I would really appreciate if someone could help me. I thought that a forum about Elvis must be full of people who like his early records, can play like that and may help me.
Thanks a lot in advance!