When choosing guitars for children, its usual to have two different points of view. The practical parents and the image conscious child themselves. For the parents the most important consideration will be whether the chld will be able to learn on it easily, if it is the right size, and is it basically fit for [...]
When first learning to play the guitar, it is essential that motivation is kept high by starting off learning easy guitar songs. Dont confuse easy with boring though. Some of the biggest selling songs in history only have a few chords and simple structure, but this doesn’t stop people buying them, singing them and playing [...]
Parents want the best for their children. For the child to grow into a well rounded intelligent person, to have lots of interests, and to look forward to learning new things.
Guitar lessons are an ideal medium for helping acheive this.
Numerous investigations by experts in these things have found that when young chiildren learn to play [...]
Anticipate and Improve Your Chord Changes
Try using a little anticipation whilst learning how to play guitar. You may find that your ability to change chords quickly and cleanly improves rapidly.
I know you may think that you have enough on your plate, what with trying to remember where your fingers go, how many strings to hit, [...]
How much preparation do you do before sitting down to play or practise?
If you are anything like I used to be, you’ll just grab the guitar and blast away.
I would never even have thought of readying my hands and fingers. Much less my mind.
I am sure thats true for the majority of players. But what [...]
If you have read any other of my articles, you’ll notice that I am a big believer in the mental aspect of guitar playing and practice.
Mental techniques have played a massive part in lots of other areas of skill, but instruments, and guitar in particular has been overlooked.
Even a little awareness of how we use [...]
