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Meditations
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Five years in the writing, this book is the most
unique and profound work on the guitar, on being an
artist, and being a person, that you are likely to find.
....Journey
far beyond
"The Principles"
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Inside these pages is a treasure of true wisdom and understandings that are
vital to an artist's work, happiness, self-expression, personal fulfillment,
and success. Written "Deeper" is perhaps the most unique body of original thought on the deepest issues of art and life you are likely to find. The true meaning of love, happiness, peace, freedom and much, much more are to be found within these pages. |
Following along the path which the author has traveled during a lifetime of
awareness and growth will empower anyone seeking to develop into the person,
the artist, and the guitarist they want to be, and are ultimately capable of
being.
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The
Contents
What is "Perfect Practice", and how can I do it?
What is a "note" to a player? How is it different than a "note" to a listener?
How should the mind and body be united in practicing and playing so
that
I "become the music".
In this group of essays an entirely new concept of the nature of perfect
practice is revealed. A profound insight into the the essence of music and
the
movement process we call "playing the guitar" is unfolded, step by step.
Elaborating and expanding on concepts presented in "The Principles",
this
group of essays lays the foundation for a new understanding of playing
and
practicing the guitar.
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What you are as a person is what you will be
as a guitarist and musician".
The truth of this maxim, often repeated by
Jamie, will be made manifestly clear
in this group of essays in Part Two. The real keys
to success in life and guitar lie in two places:
your head and your heart.
You will learn how to find them, how to recognize them, and how to use them.
To find the "meaning" of something is to find a
significance beyond the the thing itself. Ultimately, what is the meaning
of our efforts to achieve our dreams as guitarists, musicians and creative
artists?
What does it all have to do with "real life"! In Part Three essays, you will discover a new layer of meaning to that part of
you that has decided to embark on this journey, and to the journey itself. The discovery and expression of
our deepest human selves is the real
goal, and music and the guitar are the path we take. Along the way, we may find that eternal essence of our being that
connects to every one and every thing.
excerpts
from the.....INTRODUCTION
The path of development as a guitarist, a musician, and an artist, has never appeared to me to be any different than the path of growth in awareness and understanding as a person. I have always taught myself in this way, and I have always taught others in this way as well. When my methods for learning the guitar became known to guitarists around the world through the publication of my first book "The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar" and the GuitarPrinciples website, it was soon evident that the intellectual, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of my work were striking a deep chord of resonance within my readers. In fact, it became clear that students were finding these aspects of my work as meaningful and useful to them as the guitar instruction
itself............
So, I began to conceive of a book that would embody all of these aspects of personal and artistic development, and present what I consider to be the most powerful ideas subsequent to “The Principles” that I have developed to further my student's growth, as well as my own.
These ideas, and the essays conveying them, fall into three categories: Guitar, Artistic Development, and Life; three areas of concern that I have always enjoyed sharing with my students.......
.........The group of "Deeper" essays on Guitar also contains vital understandings about the nature of music, and how the musician must conceive of music in order to train the body and mind to be what it really is: The instrument that plays the instrument that makes the music. These understandings are of critical importance for the guitarist; there is no entrance into the higher realms of playing ability without them.
........."Attitude" means our orientation to everything around us. Mentally, emotionally, and spiritually speaking, it includes our position and our posture within that position. Our attitude is governed by our "point of view", and paradoxically, our attitude determines our point of view and our ability to see clearly from that point of
view.
There are some points of view from which more can be seen than from others. There are some points of view which allow us to see more clearly what is around us............
.........we have the collection of essays on Life, that common experience that binds us all together and which gives rise to everything we know and do, and which, in our artistic endeavors, we express, and transcend. In these essays, I am treating some of the most fundamental concepts of the human world. I am offering a criticism of the conventional ways in which these concepts are conceived...........
.......The purpose of this book will have been achieved if it stimulates thought and exploration for the reader. I believe my strength is recognizing what is most important, and organizing it in the most useful way, so that it can be of use to me and to others. It will be my greatest satisfaction if the present work benefits the reader to the same degree it has done so for the writer. I will even hope that it will give inspiration to those who have lacked a clear way to make contact with the deeper realities of life; realities that we all suspect and hope exist, but may have stopped reaching for at some point in our journey through this infinite mystery we call Life............
........Throughout my life, I have sought to know and understand the truth of the human world. I have always found the most worthy and noble things in life are these: the purity found in the natural world, the beauty found in the human heart, and the truth revealed in music.
.......Discovering my truth, accepting my truth, and living my truth has been the sole occupation of my entire life. It has required me to reach deeper within myself than I would have had the courage to do for any less worthy a goal. I give this to you with the most fervent desire it will help you do the
same.
Jamie
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