Guitar Practice Essentials: Faith and Constancy
related:the Secret to Gaining Guitar Practice MomentumGuitar Practice and Peak Efficiency What does it take for guitarists to learn new skills? Some are naturals when it comes to technique, some have a great ear, or long experience playing, or music theory knowledge....
Guitar Practice and Peak Efficiency
related The Secret to Gaining Practice Momentum Guitar Essentials: Faith and Constancy Guitar Yin and Yang ----- Many of my guitar students want to know how much they should practice. The answer is that while infrequent, spotty practice doesn't work well, too much...
Music Training Improves Your Brain – for Life
Every one who has tried to learn a musical instrument knows that it's no cakewalk. It takes a lot of effort and the development of a range of skills including hearing, perception, coordination, focus, and memory. Several recent studies strongly suggest that effort...
The Guitar Student’s Self-Assessment
When you begin guitar lessons and regularly throughout your life as a musician, it’s helpful to do a self-assessment, a personal inventory in which you write down your musical aspirations, goals, strengths, weaknesses, wants, needs, hopes, and fears. I ask every...
Guitar Warm-ups for Fingers and Mind
Success in learning guitar comes down to this: strapping it on and playing. Half the battle is just getting started each day. Most students are familiar with warming up - doing careful exercises for both hands, simple...
A Cognitive Scientist Explains How to Learn Guitar
Gary Marcus has released a unique and insightful book about how we learn guitar, entitled Guitar Zero, The New Musician and the Science of Learning. Marcus is a cognitive psychologist and director of the NYU Center for Language and Music, and a lifelong guitarist...
Use Your Smartphone during Guitar Lessons
Since nearly everyone who comes to my studio for a guitar lesson carries a smartphone, we find ourselves using them more and more. Photos: We've finally got your left hand positioned on the A chord so that your thumb mutes the 6th string while your index doesn't mute...
Single String Mastery on Guitar
related How to Practice Guitar with Backing Tracks Use Loops and Backing tracks to Learn Lead Guitar One of the simplest, most useful, and most intuitive areas of guitar - playing on single strings - happens to be one of the most neglected. Most guitar methods and...
Guitar Essentials: Get out and jam!
So you're new to guitar, or you've been playing awhile and want to improve your technique, or apply music theory to break out of your current confines, or become a more expressive soloist, or a better rhythm guitarist. One of the most valuable steps you can take is...
Use Loops and Backing Tracks to learn Lead Guitar
Download 48 FREE backing tracks from Brenna Method related How to Practice Guitar with Backing tracks I recently began meeting with a student who had been studying with a couple of other teachers, but wasn't getting what he wanted out of lessons. He's got real passion...
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