Tension In the Body Prevents Guitar Improvement One of the most important things you must keep in mind when you practice and play is thatall the parts of your body affect each other as you are making the movements involved

Sympathetic Tension Makes You Unable To Control Your FingersLet's talk about finger control on guitar. We have learned about "The Cycle Of The Note" and how tension goes into the body with every note you play. Now it is time to

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 in the

The 2 Right Hand Positions On GuitarThere is a basic position for playing with a pick, and a basic position for playing fingerstyle. Although pro players may use variations of these positions, we should learn these basic positions first.  Here

The 2 Left Hand Positions You Need On GuitarThere is more than one "correct" position for the left hand on guitar. There are two basic left hand positions for guitar. However, one of them should be learned before the other,

Form First, Then MovementNo 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 you

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

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

How To Make Sure Your Fingers Do The Right ThingAt 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

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