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Articles that give the guitar student a deep knowledge of how to practice guitar for maximum results.
Whole Body Awareness For Maximum Guitar Improvement
Tension In the Body Prevents Guitar ImprovementOne 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 inplaying. If you want maximum guitar improvement every time you practice you must beaware of your […]
Continue readingSympathetic Tension Destroys Finger Control On Guitar
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 about the tension that goes into your fingers every time you play a note, […]
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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 body every time you play a note on the guitar Every time you play a note, […]
Continue readingCorrect Right Hand Form On Guitar
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 are the basic characteristics of each position… FingerstylePickstyle1. The fingers are almost perpendicular to the […]
Continue readingGuitar Habits 2: Correct Left Hand Form On Guitar
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, or important muscles in the hand will not develop properly.1) The Straight Position2) The Slanted […]
Continue readingGuitar Habits 1: Movement Follow Form
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 to stand correctly and imagine a string pulling you from the chest. If you study […]
Continue readingDeliberate 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 how they got to be that way. There is a name given to this process of “getting […]
Continue readingThe 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 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 […]
Continue readingHow To Do Correct Practice On Guitar: No Tempo Practice
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 thing. 2When we practice, it is our job to make sure they do the right thing.How […]
Continue readingWhat You Must Do To Practice Guitar Effectively
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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