It's funny, I "learned" piano for years as a child, but somehow missed a lot of the theory (e.g. the circle of fifths). A year ago, I got a deal on guitar lesso

It's funny, I "learned" piano for years as a child, but somehow missed a lot of the theory (e.g. the circle of fifths). A year ago, I got a deal on guitar lessons from a student who was looking for work for the summer. It was a crash course, pretty much taught the basic cords (G, C, D, Em, Am, etc) but we didn't have enough time to go into much theory there either. But it was enough of a crash course to start looking at the guitar and figuring out how it works, relative to my base knowledge on piano. My partner is quite musical though (formally trained), and she's help fill in a lot of the gaps. I'm at the point now where I can fiddle around with different chord progressions and get good-sounding melodies to come out on my own. I get inversions and how they work on the guitar, etc. It's quite cool and way more interesting to me than just learning songs from a book.