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Guitar Posture – How To Sit With Your Guitar For Better Technique, More Comfort And Far Less Frustration (Part 1)

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Many people have no idea how to actually sit with their guitar for the most optimal playing comfort, efficiency and technique. Some sit in a downright terrible way. This places a huge strain on their wrists, leads to their backs being hunched over and their guitar being placed at a weird angle.

In this two-part post, I`ll explain why it is essential that you start sitting in the proper manner, why most teachers get it wrong, and what you can learn from the sport of golf. Most importantly I`ll show you what I have found to be by far the most optimal playing position for guitarists.

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5 False Limiting Beliefs Guitarists Fool Themselves With

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Many guitarists have limiting beliefs, but some, particularly those who are older or lack confidence have some that don`t just hold back their playing but actually sabotage it on a large-scale – often to the point it ruins their playing.

In this post, I want to share with you some stupid myths and weird beliefs that guitarists have and help you to see why they are nonsense and why they hold back your playing.
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Get super motivated on guitar! [Infographic]

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In this new blog post, the very first of 2017, I`ll show you how a simple infographic (which, by the way, you can download for free at the bottom of the post) will help you transform your guitar playing to make it more fun, productive and much more inspirational – while helping you sky-rocket your levels of motivation on the guitar.

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‘Power Burst’ learning – the faster way to learn more on the guitar in less time

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Today I am going to take you through a really powerful concept and one that will save you many hours, days, weeks and months learning and improving your guitar playing.

If you apply this simple method of learning the guitar you could make a couple of years’ worth of progress in much less time. It would be wrong and inaccurate of me to give you an exact figure but this method will save you time.

That is the possibilities of ‘Power Burst’ learning.

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Survey Result

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Recently, I asked you to fill out a survey and give me some feedback on exactly what topics, songs and techniques you want to learn via this blog.

The responses were great and there were way more than I had expected so thank you very much to everyone who filled out the survey. I have taken a few hours to dig deep and analyse the data and here are the results and the changes I’ll be making because of your input.

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8 Crucial Questions You Should Ask Yourself That Will Help You Play The Guitar Better

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how to play the guitarOne of the best bits of advice I was given on how to help students make faster progress is to give them the ability to empower themselves.

Many years ago a fellow and more experienced guitar teacher told me about this powerful concept.

The idea of teaching you to empower yourself is this: You learn the ability to understand and see exactly how to spot your own mistakes when learning and practicing the guitar.

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Six Powerful Reasons for Learning Guitar as an Adult

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These days most of my private students are adults. A few years ago there was a healthy split between teaching adults and children the guitar. This included the days in the week I used to teach children at a school.

These days, however, I am far too busy with Guitar Domination to teach in the school and only have a couple of students under the age of 18.

In fact, the majority of my private students are over the age of 40. And this is the way I like it.

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