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Category: Practice Strategies
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How to Add 48 Pieces to Repertoire
If you are a musician then you know the importance of keeping a maintaining your repertoire. Undoubtedly, being able to pull a piece out of memory at a moment’s notice is a great skill to have. Moreover, you can amuse and impress your friends and family with short recitals. Then they will ask you to play Wonderwall or whatever the worldwide music machine says is cool this week. But I digress.
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Never Repeat a Phrase the Same Way Twice
How do you write instrumental music and repeat a phrase while keeping the music interesting? This is what we will explore in this article.
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Why Practice with a Piezo Pickup?
I absolutely love the silky-smooth sounds of a well-played nylon string guitar and I can appreciate an equally well-played acoustic steel string.
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Why Have A Good Teacher?
A Good Teacher Can Shave Off Years of Practice and Frustration. A Good Teacher Can impact a student for years to come.
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Snagging the Hard Parts
An article that suggests an approach to working past the challenging parts in any piece of music on the classical guitar.
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5 Things You Need to Learn Classical & Fingerstyle Guitar, Part IV: A Guitar Method Book
There is a plethora of guitar methods in the world. Most of them contain a great number of accomplished exercises in them for the guitarist to learn.
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5 Things You Need to Learn Classical & Fingerstyle Guitar, Part III: A Guitar Support or Footstool
Go posture saves backs. I have heard numerous reports over the years of professional classical guitarists having a multitude of back issues after a long career.
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New Practice Resource: Open Position Scales
Scale book review that is tailored to the areas that I need practice on, and is setup for daily practice without being overwhelmed.
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The Secret of the Metronome
The dreaded, the feared, the despised: The Metronome. I’ve not met a musician who hasn’t loathed the thing. However, it is the very thing that makes you good.
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5 Things You Need to Learn Classical & Fingerstyle Guitar, Part I: the Guitar
When starting to learn the classical guitar or furthering your guitar skills with fingerstyle, you will need a few things to get started down the right path.