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How To Hold The Guitar

SITTING & HOLDING THE GUITAR Holding the guitar correctly first and indispensable step in playing the guitar easily and without pain. Many guitar students never realize that pain from guitar playing, or repetitive strain injury, begins with how they hold

Walking Across Strings With The Heavy Arm

Walking Across The Strings With The Heavy Arm I hope you enjoyed learning about 1The Light Finger 2The Firm Finger 3The Floating Arm 4The Heavy Arm 5All Aboard 6Walking Across The Strings With Heavy Arm Putting It All Together: The

Build Guitar Skill with The Basic Practice Approach

You're Not "Practicing Guitar...you are doing Motor Control Learning! When you sit down to practice guitar, you are not really "practicing guitar". You are really trying to teach your fingers to make particular movements in a particular way that will produce the

what you better know before you practice guitar

What You’d Better Know BEFORE You Practice Guitar

Here are the simple things you need to be aware of and understand before you begin to learn the guitar. Pay attention to these things, and you will be successful on guitar. Body Awareness The awareness of the physical body

The 4 Essential Levels of Guitar Success

The 4 Levels To Guitar Success

Guitar Success means becoming a REAL guitar player. What is a REAL guitar player? A REAL guitar player is a player who: Plays music like it is supposed to sound, from beginning to end with no stops, starts, and breakdowns

The Cycle Of The Note

Learn To Control "The Cycle Of The Note" - Or Suffer From Uncontrolled Tension! There are certain things that go wrong at the beginning of virtually all guitar students training. The most important of these is ignorance of what happens

Guitar Habits 1: Movement Follow Form

Form First, Then Movement No matter what field of activity, if it is done with your body you are going to find that the best training teaches you form before anything else. If you take dance lessons, they will teach

Deliberate Practice On Guitar

Expert Performance and Deliberate Practice There is a field of study called “expert performance”. It is basically the study of “people who are great at doing something”, and trying to figure out why they are the way they are, and

The 3 Levels of Guitar Practice

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 1Microscopic Practice 2Assimilating 3Shaping I have covered in detail these 3 levels, or aspects of

about the author

Jamie Andreas is the author of "The Principles Of Correct Practice For Guitar".

She has dedicated her life to creating guitar training methods that will bring anyone to the pro level of guitar playing.