Archive for: December 2007

One aspect of learning to play guitar not often found in online guitar lessons is the role of stress in aquiring new motor skills. The wish to be a guitarist is what sits us down to practice, but at that point it can be useful to drop the desire to succeed at what we are doing and carry out our guitar practice with relaxed muscles. Of course you can’t play the guitar with hands and arms like dead fish but you can return to the question of how much tension do I need to put into my playing at THIS MOMENT? Your playing distracts you from remembering your muscular tension but you can start looking at it again every time you remember. After you’ve tried this a few times you’ll know whether it’s worthwhile continuing or if it’s nothing that holds your interest. Here’s a little quote on this subject from 360 Degree Success.com
“Many people think one thing while feeling and doing another. How often do we find ourselves doing just that? Upset about a previous argument, or worried about an upcoming event, we perform our daily tasks without really being involved in what we are doing. Furthermore, with our minds and hearts elsewhere, we divide ourselves even more by trying to increase efficiency through “multitasking”. In fact, many studies have shown that juggling between many different tasks can actually give you less ability to successfully perform each task and can take you more time overall to complete them all than if you had completed one task at a time. Therefore, contrary to what we may think, multitasking makes us less efficient, less effective, and more stressed out (draining our precious energy).
Many times we do things reluctantly and with the inner wish that we didn’t have to do them, complaining the entire time either vocally or in our heads. This is like driving with your feet on the gas pedal and on the brake at the same time — and the results are the same — burning up many times more energy than is necessary to achieve the desired result.”
The complete article is on How to keep your energy high throught the day.

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About.com contains a wealth of information on every subject you can think of, so I thought I should point you towards their free online guitar lessons. If you don’t know how to read guitar tabs, you’ll get your opportunity to learn plus you can hear some of the lesssons on RealAudio or mp3.
These free guitar lessons were created for beginners. New guitarists should spend at least one week learning the exercises and songs in lesson one before moving on.
You’ll learn how to hold a guitar and pick, the names of parts of the guitar, a scale, a few chords, and a couple of songs.
You then move onto scales, names of the open strings, minor chords, strumming patterns, and the blues scale.
In later lessons we learn power chords, sharps and flats, 12-bar blues, barre chord shapes, 7th chords, a chromatic scale, fingerpicking, bending and sliding, palm muting and a whole bunch of songs to help you put your newly-acquired guitar techniques into practice.

http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitarlessonarchive.htm

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Mike Herberts is known as a pretty good guitar teacher who maintains a great teaching resource for beginner guitarists called Six String Videos
Among other things there’s a handy litle page for beginners to print out the four main chords for each of the easiest two keys on guitar.
There are four basic guitar chords for each key that you’ll be learning (some of them are used in more than one key so not so many to learn)
One of the biggest challenges when learning how to play guitar is learning how to strum correctly. You could spend years learning chords and left hand technique without making much music at all. Mike has made a video that shows you the technique that turns dull sounding noise into beautiful music…in one easy lesson.
And there’s adownloadable video on “The Dreaded ‘F’ Chord”. Avoid the biggest mistake beginners make when trying to learn the ‘F’ Chord on guitar. Watch this video lesson by Mike Herberts and melt away the mystery of the biggest challenge a new guitarist faces.
Go to Six String Videos and scroll to “Instant Free Featured Resources”.

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