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3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Fretboard Fun, the Plague, and Reflection)

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fretboard fun

Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including some fretboard fun, the guitar teacher’s plague, and more. Here we go…

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Filed Under: Fretboard, Learning, Practice Tagged With: Fretboard, Guitar teachers, learning guitar

3 Random Thoughts This Tuesday (Fretboard Markers, Disaster, and Elbows!)

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fretboard markers

Welcome to a new weekly post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including fretboard markers, stiff elbows, and more.

Normally I send this out on a Monday but as yesterday was a super busy day for me, here it is today…

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Filed Under: Fretboard, Practice Tagged With: Fretboard, learning guitar, Practice

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Music Dynamics, Feedback, and Fretboard Issues)

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music dynamics

Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including music dynamics, learning notes on the fretboard, and more. Here we go…

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Filed Under: Fretboard, Learning, Practice Tagged With: Fretboard, learning guitar

My Three Ways to Practise Fretting Hand Technical Exercises

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There are a lot of technical exercises out there in the land of learning guitar.

 

Most are too complex and too intricate to be beneficial to most guitarists, beginners, and intermediates alike…

Especially when guitarists do them the way most people teach them.

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Filed Under: Fretboard, Learning, Technique Tagged With: Fretboard, Guitar technique, learning guitar

The Terrible Woes of Trying to Learn the Notes on the Fretboard

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This may be a familiar story to many of you.

One day, you tell yourself:

“Right I’m going to learn the notes on the fretboard once and for all”.

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Filed Under: Fretboard, Learning, Practice Tagged With: enjoying the journey, Fretboard, learning guitar, Learning to play guitar

How to Learn the Fretboard and Improvise Fingerstyle…at the Same Time

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One thing I like to do when teaching students is to stack ideas together at the same time.

 

This is where instead of teaching them one thing in isolation on its own…

…I’ll combine it in a simple way with something else they have already learnt.

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Fretboard, Learning Tagged With: Efficiency of learning, Fingerpicking tips, Fretboard, learning guitar

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