At this point, we know two very important things about practicing guitar effectively. 1Our fingers remember whatever they do, but they don’t know the difference between the right thing and the wrong thing. 2When we practice, it is our job to make sure they do the right thing.How To Make Sure Your Fingers Do The Right ThingHow […]
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Your Muscles Don’t Know Right From WrongMuscle memory is a great thing, but it can work for you or against you. What happens if f you do the right thing once, then the wrong thing, and then various combinations of right and wrong? You end up with some pretty confused fingers! This is what most people […]
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How Fingers Learn To Play Guitar The Power of Muscle MemoryYour fingers have this amazing ability, as does every muscle in your body, to “remember”anything they do. We all use this ability of the muscles in different ways in various things we do in life. We’re all familiar with how a carpenter will take a few […]
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You know, you can’t get someone to take their medicine if they don’t know they have the disease! So I wrote this essay, “What is Practicing?” to get players to begin to get an awareness of what real practicing is, and compare it to what they are presently doing. There is a good reason many […]
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There are 3 Levels of Practice that guitar players must know how to use in order to achieve their full potential on guitar. They are Microscopic Practice, Assimilating, and Shaping. I have covered in detail these 3 levels, or aspects of practice in Chapter 5 of “The Principles Of Correct Practice For Guitar”. The first two […]
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We “play” the guitar…and you can’t play if you don’t know how to have fun!The subject of Fun is one of the most serious topics we can discuss. One of the greatest achievements of my lifetime has been the maintenance of the capacity for fun from early childhood. Another has been coming to an […]
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Why We Play MusicWhy do we play music? What is the root, the fundamental thing we are really doing when we play and practice music? We play music because a great desire has been awakened in us; and that great desire is to become the music. It is this desire, which for some is a mild […]
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When people begin to use “The Principles of Correct Practice For Guitar”, the first question they have is “What is the best way to practice guitar and fix all the bad playing habits I have”. “The Principles” bring you a new awareness of all the tension you really have in your fingers when you play. You […]
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In my study of great musicians, I have noticed that the very greatest are also very spiritual. Bach, Beethoven, Barrios, Santana – anyone of whom I have ever heard or read, and believe to be a divinely inspired musician, has a very strong spiritual sense. I believe that Spirituality, or the forms it takes when […]
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Of all the things you can do to make sure you are enabling yourself to achieve your guitar playing dreams, finding the Inner Master is the greatest. All great players have found the Inner Master. The Inner Master wants us to be a good guitar player, and enrich the world with our music. How do we […]
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