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…
My Three Ways to Practise Fretting Hand Technical Exercises
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.
The Terrible Woes of Trying to Learn the Notes on the Fretboard
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”.
How to Learn the Fretboard and Improvise Fingerstyle…at the Same Time
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.