Essential Essays From the GuitarPrinciples Newsletter Archive!

 

 

 

  1. On Memorizing
  2. Making Bar Chords Easy
  3. Measuring Your Progress
  4. Stage Fright
  5. Scales - Why and What For?"
  6. Practicing One Thing is Practicing Everything!
  7. The Working Speed
  8. Attentional Deployment
  9. Living On The Edge of Why
  10. Why Should I Learn to Read Music? (2 parts)
  11. "Why Should I Take Guitar Lessons?"
  12. "Shifting"
  13. Perfection
  14. Making It
  15. The Three Great Questions 
  16. Do, Then Get!
  17. Becoming the Music
  18. Pulling Up The Slack
  19. Goalines Not Deadlines
  20. The Glue of Repetition
  21. Get the Juices Flowing!
  22. Moving in the Direction of Skill
  23. The Alchemy of Art
  24. Can I Teach Guitar?
  25. Quality Control
  26. Faith
  27. Plateaus
  28. Ideo-Motor Action
  29. Using The Hinge Bar
  30. Coupling
  31. Franz Liszt: "Think 10 Times, Play Once"
  32. Auto Correct
  33. Belly Up To The Barre Boys (and Girls!)-Secrets of the Bar
  34. Get Off The SeeSaw!
  35. How to Practice Chord Changes
  36. What Should I Practice?
  37. Review is Required!
  38. How to Handle Your Teacher
  39. Changing Bad Habits (2 parts)
  40. It's a Jungle Out There!
  41. The Bottom of Your Practice
  42. A Day in the Life: Your Alone Place
  43. The Three Levels of Practice
  44. Conductor's Mind
  45. Lost in Time
  46. General Guitar Development: Stage II
  47. The Inner Master
  48. Exercise or Test?
  49. Climb Every Mountain
  50. Perfect Intention
  51. Double Trouble
  52. Outside the Box
  53. Beyond Right and Wrong: The Tapestry of Truth
  54. How To Nail A Solo