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| How to Find the Key of Any Song by Ear, rating: 4.1 |
| A simple method for finding the key of any song, most useful for soloists. POSTED: 05/14/2013 - 08:57 am |
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| Speed Improvement, rating: 7.2 |
| This exercise was given to me by my guitar teacher, this has helped me alot to pick up my speed. Hope it helps you too. POSTED: 05/06/2013 - 10:48 am |
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| Let's Strengthen That Pinky, rating: 8.3 |
| Bored of the 1-2-3-4 or 0-1-4 exercises? Wanna learn riffs which strengthen your pinky and sound cool at the same time? This is the article for you. POSTED: 04/05/2013 - 10:04 am |
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| Practicing Guitar Without a Guitar, rating: 9.3 |
| Not to say you can become great without picking up a guitar. But you can develop important mental skills that will enhance your playing. POSTED: 04/03/2013 - 09:40 am |
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| Milestone 1 for Rock Prodigy Students, rating: 9.2 |
| This blog is for beginner Rock Prodigy students. The Milestones are all about playing music with what you've learned so far. POSTED: 03/25/2013 - 10:47 am |
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| Finger Independence Exercises, rating: 8.2 |
| Unlock your brain - throw away those useless 1234 exercises and defeat the evils of noodling. POSTED: 03/22/2013 - 10:23 am |
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| How To Improve Your Guitar Playing With Any Exercise, rating: 8.4 |
| How to ensure that your guitar playing always gets better no matter what exercises you are practicing. POSTED: 02/26/2013 - 07:27 am |
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| Moving Ahead In Your Practice Session, rating: 9.3 |
| 4 tips to get you moving forward and keep you from staying still. POSTED: 02/21/2013 - 04:25 am |
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| String Sorcery: The Wizard's Tower Pt.2 - Picking And Chromatic Exercises, rating: 9.5 |
| Part two of the Wizard's Tower portion of the String Sorcery series: this lesson covers the basics of picking and introduces some simple chromatic exercises. POSTED: 01/30/2013 - 08:50 am |
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| String Sorcery: The Wizard's Tower Pt.1 - Technical Improvement, rating: 8.5 |
| A primer for The Wizard's Tower portion of the String Sorcery series. This lesson covers the basics of technical improvement, and this will allow you to make the most of your practice sessions. POSTED: 01/22/2013 - 07:53 am |
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| Building Your Repertoire, rating: 8.3 |
| If you want to know any song you play from beginning to the end - have a read! POSTED: 12/04/2012 - 09:35 am |
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| How To Practice Away From The Guitar, rating: 8 |
| How to practice when life gets busy and you don't have pick up your guitar. POSTED: 10/24/2012 - 08:45 am |
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| Cure Your Rhythm Ills In 3 Simple Steps, rating: 6.1 |
| Got your chords and some basic rhythms, but it still doesn't sound like music? Use these 3 simple tips to shore up your right hand technique and you'll be in Groove City. POSTED: 10/18/2012 - 09:51 am |
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| Minor Seventh Pentatonic, rating: 1.9 |
| Gmi7 pentatonic lateral pattern. POSTED: 09/03/2012 - 07:51 am |
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| How To Strengthen Your Fretting Digits, rating: 3.5 |
| Having a stronger fretting hand allows you to greater sustain string bends and Hams/Puffs as well as gaining better endurance in the fretting hand. POSTED: 08/22/2012 - 09:11 am |
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| Relieving Fretting Hand Tension, rating: 8.9 |
| A few tips on how to relieve unnecessary hand tension by releasing The Clamp. POSTED: 08/01/2012 - 09:41 am |
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| Picking And Fretting Fundamentals, rating: 8 |
| A couple of fundamental exercises for the picking and fretting hands. POSTED: 07/17/2012 - 09:44 am |
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| Want To Become A Great Guitarist? Stay Away From These 4 Mistakes, rating: 8.5 |
| If you can identify with even one of the guitar practice mistakes listed in this article, you will have taken a big step towards overcoming an important obstacle that stands in the way of you becoming a better musician. POSTED: 07/13/2012 - 09:13 am |
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| How Well Do You Know Your Stuff?, rating: 8.6 |
| A little game you can play to check how well you know a piece of music or technical exercise. POSTED: 06/29/2012 - 10:10 am |
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| Unlocking Hidden Finger Tension From Guitar Fingers, rating: 9.2 |
| At Guitar Principles, we get a lot of long time players who want to figure out why they haven't gotten any better at guitar in the last few decades, and see if they can do anything about it. POSTED: 06/27/2012 - 07:00 am |
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| An Effective Way Of Practicing Scales, rating: 9.3 |
| I just wanted to show an easy way of memorizing scales and not getting stuck in a box position but instead knowing the scale all over the neck. POSTED: 06/04/2012 - 09:59 am |
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| Organizing Your Practice, rating: 10 |
| If you have a problem with your practice routine, have a read! POSTED: 05/04/2012 - 02:30 am |
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| Fun With Pinky, rating: 7.8 |
| A pinky sucks. Can we change it? Of course. POSTED: 05/02/2012 - 02:25 am |
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| In Bed With Mr And Mrs Awkward, rating: 9.3 |
| Spending time in the most awkward areas. POSTED: 04/09/2012 - 07:45 am |
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| Developing Left Hand Dexterity, rating: 8.5 |
| That's my simple metod that will make your left hand even more flexible! POSTED: 04/03/2012 - 03:45 am |
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| Speed Building Guitar Schedule, rating: 8.3 |
| Take a look at this practise schedule if you want speed. POSTED: 03/14/2012 - 03:35 am |
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| General Practice Tips, rating: 9.5 |
| A few pointers on how to approach exercises. POSTED: 02/27/2012 - 03:28 am |
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| 5 Ways To Break Out Of A Rut, rating: 8.8 |
| Breaking out of a rut comes down to doing something (anything) different. Here are five examples of how to do that. POSTED: 02/20/2012 - 06:47 am |
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| Breaking The Speed Barrier: How To Go Fast, rating: 8.2 |
| Learning to go fast has everything to do with setting up the pathway in your head, and then having an orderly way to traverse it faster, so you can hand it over from conscious to unconscious control. POSTED: 12/12/2011 - 03:26 am |
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| How To Play Fast, rating: 9.4 |
| Certain technique exercises for playing faster. POSTED: 11/22/2011 - 01:56 am |
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| Start Using Your Ears. Part 2, rating: 9.8 |
| If you read part 1, hopefully you're thoroughly convinced that learning songs by ear is a great way to improve your playing. So here's how to get started. POSTED: 11/16/2011 - 02:17 am |
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| 5 Licks To Help You Play Without Looking At The Fretboard, rating: 10 |
| Playing without looking at the fretboard can be very useful. In this lesson I made 5 long licks to help you play without looking at the fretboard. Play every lick exactly the same time as you read it. No memorizing at all. This lesson is for intermediate/beginner+ players. POSTED: 10/07/2011 - 02:34 am |
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| Hands Of Steel III: Mastering Scales. Part I, rating: 9.2 |
| Part III of the Hands of Steel series. This multi-part lesson will focus on mastering scales with fluency and versatility. Part I introduces scale patterns on single strings. POSTED: 10/05/2011 - 03:55 am |
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| 24 Licks To Warm Up, rating: 7.2 |
| Warming up is important. In this lesson I give you the 24 permutation of the number 1, 2, 3, 4 to help you warm up and improve strength. POSTED: 10/05/2011 - 03:51 am |
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| Start Using Your Ears. Part 1, rating: 9.5 |
| 10 reasons you should starting learning songs by ear, right now. POSTED: 08/17/2011 - 02:47 am |
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| Hands Of Steel Tips, rating: 9.6 |
| This lesson is a collection of tips that will help you get the most out of these lessons and your practice. POSTED: 03/18/2011 - 05:51 am |
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| Warm-up Exercises: Big Stretches - Quick Results, rating: 6.9 |
| This is a lesson (sort of) showing you the best (IMO) warm ups to get your fingers limber in as short a time as possible, these DO work. My hands are always cold and they even manage to warm mine up after about 10 minutes with a metronome. POSTED: 03/17/2011 - 07:12 am |
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| Beating Frustration & Making Guitar Fun Again, rating: 9.4 |
| A lesson about how to beat frustration and start enjoying the instrument again. We did pick up the guitar in the first place for fun, right? POSTED: 03/10/2011 - 06:24 am |
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| I Suck At Guitar Because Im Insane, rating: 9.3 |
| A lesson on challenging incorrect assumptions that can keep us from improving. POSTED: 01/26/2011 - 04:57 am |
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| Hands Of Steel II , rating: 9.1 |
| Part II in a series designed to increase your command of the fretboard. POSTED: 01/05/2011 - 06:18 am |
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| I Suck At Guitar Because I Cant Define Why I Suck At Guitar, rating: 8.5 |
| Improving at the guitar can be vastly easier and more fun if we can identify and understand the things that hold us back from being the musicians that we want to be. POSTED: 12/16/2010 - 06:08 am |
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| 'This Is Sparta' Guitar Song Conquering , rating: 9.5 |
| Practice tips and easier ways to build up strength and skill to play tricky parts in songs. POSTED: 11/22/2010 - 07:05 am |
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| Grand Theory Of Everything, rating: 7.4 |
| Music theory from simple wavelengths to the chord progressions. Basically showing how Western music isn't just a random pile of notes some guy chose hundreds of years ago. POSTED: 09/28/2010 - 08:38 am |
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| Exploring Harmonic Minor With A Linear Lick, rating: 9.3 |
| Harmonic Minors sound very cool. Why not explore them with a cool practice? CAUTION: This lessons features a lick that can make your hand hurt if played 5 times together. POSTED: 08/16/2010 - 07:36 am |
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| Rhythm - Our Achilles Heel, rating: 7.8 |
| Some simple ways that we can incorporate rhythmic focus into our practice habits. POSTED: 07/26/2010 - 04:26 am |
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| Improving Your Picking Hand, rating: 8.9 |
| A problem solving approach to achieving a solid, accurate picking hand. POSTED: 07/01/2010 - 06:27 am |
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| Improving Your Fretting Hand, rating: 8.8 |
| A non-exercise based approach for improving the agility of your fretting hand. POSTED: 06/09/2010 - 07:33 am |
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| The Challenge Of Studenthood - Confronting Your Limitations, rating: 8.3 |
| Sometimes I get all nostalgic for the times when my students had nothing to do but practice. Ok you're right that time never existed. But really it's tougher than ever to focus on any one thing and devote yourself to becoming masterful at it. We all know how challenging it is to fend off those nagging obligations to all that stuff that gets in the way of us playing music for 8 hours a day! POSTED: 03/02/2010 - 08:13 am |
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| Phrase Separation Polish Up Your Performance Skills, rating: 9 |
| Use the phrase separation technique to really tighten up your performances. POSTED: 11/26/2009 - 07:35 am |
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| Fresh Practice Ideas And Tricks, rating: 9.2 |
| This lesson outlines a few tricks to improve your practice sessions, unusual ways to improve your playing with a metronome, different approaches to phrasing, and just general practice and playing advice. POSTED: 11/23/2009 - 06:51 am |
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| Warm Up Game, rating: 8.4 |
| This exercise is for all ranks. It is good to build up the speed and strength of both hands And its A GAME! Yep, even has levels for you to try and achieve. POSTED: 09/28/2009 - 08:01 am |
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| Effective Practice , rating: 8.9 |
| A set of guidelines on managing your time and learning how to play new things. POSTED: 09/14/2009 - 07:09 am |
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| Getting The Most Out Of Your Practice Session, rating: 9.7 |
| "Practicing" is by far the most misunderstood term in music. Far too few people really understand what practice is for, and how to optimize the time you have to garner the greatest results. POSTED: 08/12/2009 - 07:03 am |
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| A Productive Practice Session, rating: 9.9 |
| Seem to be stuck? Don't know how to move on? Take a look at this lesson. POSTED: 08/11/2009 - 08:52 am |
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| A Lesson About Lessons, rating: 9.9 |
| Hey, you're getting pretty good! At this point, people are starting to take notice, and they might want you to teach them a couple tricks on the ole gee-tar. But teaching isn't quite as easy as it seems. This lesson will give you a couple things you to think about, to be aware of, and a couple tricks to make sure your first forays into teaching go as smoothly as possible. POSTED: 07/21/2009 - 07:08 am |
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| Right Hand Economy And Left Hand Agility, rating: 9.2 |
| This was origionally ment to help somebody on the forum with his problems switching strings on his right hand. I ended up spending a few hours getting it down, so decided it might be able to help others. POSTED: 06/01/2009 - 06:48 am |
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| How To Practice, rating: 8.9 |
| Ok, a lot of people don't practice correctly and it shows in their technique. In this lesson, I'm going to show you practicing techniques that may not be fun, but they will definitely help and you will see results very soon. I'll even throw in some guitar exercises that will really boost your playing. POSTED: 05/14/2009 - 08:55 am |
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| Building Speed On The Fret Board, rating: 9.2 |
| This practice is for those who have worked with scales and know where to position your fingers. Also the main focus on the lesson is the Method of a practice, not the scales that I tab out. POSTED: 04/30/2009 - 06:52 am |
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| The Intangibles Of Forming A Great Band, rating: 9.5 |
| Forming a good band is more than just being able to play the songs. Here are 9 tips to help make practices and the band better. POSTED: 04/29/2009 - 06:21 am |
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| How To Pick Accurately, rating: 8.6 |
| If you are tired of having that *put!* sound or missing strikes, or you just can't get your accuracy when you try to solo a little. Use this guide to help yourself become a much more accurate guitarist and make your sound more than pleasant. POSTED: 04/14/2009 - 07:40 am |
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| How To Improve Hand Synchronization, rating: 9.4 |
| Four separate exercises designed to develop your right and left hand skills. POSTED: 04/02/2009 - 09:13 am |
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| Singing While Playing Guitar, rating: 8.7 |
| Tips for singing along with playing your guitar, this will hopefully help you to sing while playing. POSTED: 04/01/2009 - 11:44 am |
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| Pre-Playing Warm-ups, rating: 9.5 |
| In this lesson, I am going to put some exercises that I do before practicing, or doing a gig. These will include hammer ons and pull offs, string skipping scales (try saying that 5 times fast!), and detailed instruction on which fingers to use. Hope you like it! POSTED: 03/23/2009 - 10:00 am |
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| Hot To Prevent Repetitive Strain Injury. Part 2, rating: 8 |
| The second part - focusing on physical aspects of performance and giving ideas on how to make playing for longer easier. POSTED: 03/21/2009 - 07:54 am |
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| How To Increase Speed Using Your Practice Time And A Metronome, rating: 9.4 |
| This is a great lesson that is VERY useful in the field of playing faster and alternate picking. POSTED: 01/21/2009 - 10:14 am |
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| Things To Be Aware Of And Useful Tips, rating: 7.5 |
| Some people, while learning, they develop wrong methods to make things easier for them but in fact it's not.It may be easy at once, but later at higher skill songs they may face difficulties because of the wrong methods they use, so here I am trying to share some of the wrong methods I used to use, and the correct ones. POSTED: 10/14/2008 - 07:55 am |
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| Yet Another Speed And Finger Strength Exercises, rating: 9.5 |
| Small and simple exercises to help the growth of fast and accurate playing. POSTED: 10/09/2008 - 08:54 am |
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| Hands Of Steel I, rating: 9.5 |
| The first in a series of lessons designed to enhance your command of the fretboard. POSTED: 10/06/2008 - 10:46 am |
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| Some Decent Exercises, rating: 8.6 |
| How to take your metal/rock playing up a level, and learn some handy little exercises. POSTED: 09/23/2008 - 07:53 am |
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| Effective Techniques for Practicing with a Metronome, rating: 9.9 |
| Whether you're a beginner trying to learn your first few chords or an expert trying to blaze 16th notes at 200 beats per minute (bpm), the best (and often most ignored) practice device at your disposal is the metronome. Although some of these concepts may seem simple and intuitive, this lesson will talk about the most effective ways to use the metronome to practice a variety of guitar techniques. POSTED: 09/19/2008 - 08:24 am |
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| Hand Finger Strength, rating: 8.9 |
| This is a good way to help strengthen your fingers and hands so they don't start to hurt in the middle of a gig. POSTED: 09/12/2008 - 09:40 am |
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| Total Guitar Workout , rating: 8.2 |
| Give yourself a guitar workout or just use these to warm up before playing. Some useful samples to help your bring your playing out of the shadows. POSTED: 10/03/2007 - 06:16 am |
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| How To Prevent Repetitive Strain Injury, rating: 9.5 |
| A guide including exercises on cutting down on the chances ( and effects ) of RSI and other related injuries. POSTED: 06/13/2006 - 07:42 am |
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| Warm Ups IV, rating: 8.8 |
| A series of warm up exercises shown in John Petrucci's Rock Discipline DVD. POSTED: 06/06/2006 - 09:29 am |
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| Strengthen Your Hands, rating: 9.5 |
| Some exercises from other people, and some that I've made up. All in all, this lesson strengthens your hands. POSTED: 01/19/2005 - 09:11 am |
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| Warm Ups lll, rating: 8.9 |
| This is a great warm up exercise that will increase your accuracy, and build up the muscles just behind your figures. POSTED: 09/23/2004 - 07:26 am |
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| Warm Ups II, rating: 9 |
| Here is the follow up part to Warm Ups I article. These warm ups may prove to be considerably harder. POSTED: 07/19/2004 - 08:47 am |
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| Warm Ups, rating: 8.6 |
| A list of good warm-ups that will both strengthern your fingers and get you going! POSTED: 11/20/2003 - 08:14 am |
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| Discover Your Discomfort!, rating: 9.2 |
| Okay, I’m going to explain some powerful things for the practicing guitarist who wants to see results from their practice. In other words, the guitarist who wants to do what I call correct practice. POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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| Changing Chords, rating: 5.2 |
| Many people begin to play the guitar by learning a few chord changes to their favorite song. There are many things to be aware of while doing this. There are things to know and do that can make it easier, and guarantee you will have success. POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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| What Should I Practice?, rating: 7.9 |
| I am feeling overwhelmed with lessons, books, methods, skills, & principles of practice. This is a common feeling that troubles many beginning guitar students, and can rear its head from time to time with advanced players as well. POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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| Your growth as a guitarist: vertical or horizontal?, rating: 8.1 |
| As the years go by in the life of a player, there are two kinds of growth we can experience. Both are necessary for our development as musicians and guitarists. I call them Vertical Growth, and Horizontal Growth. POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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| Finding The Incredible Lightness, rating: 9.6 |
| In my essay "Discover Your Discomfort", I urged you to become aware of the sensations of discomfort you experience while practicing and playing. The reason is very simple. Until you do, you will not be able to be aware of the sensations a good player has. POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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