by Jay | Nov 7, 2021 | Classical Guitar Basics, Teaching Blog Post
10th Year Anniversary Edition:I’m revisiting some of my best old posts on playing guitar. Enjoy! Although many things we do require skill, there’s really nothing in everyday life even remotely like learning, memorizing, and performing a piece of music....
by Jay | Nov 6, 2021 | Classical Guitar Basics, Teaching Blog Post
10th Year Anniversary Edition:I’m revisiting some of my best old posts on playing guitar. Enjoy! In this post, I’m elaborating on a useful metaphor I used in my last post. Simply put, it’s this: “Practicing is Editing” FIlm editors, as...
by Jay | Nov 5, 2021 | Classical Guitar Basics
10th Year Anniversary Edition: I’m revisiting some of my best old posts on playing guitar. Enjoy! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about some of my most recent discoveries in guitar playing and teaching. My work with polarities, going deeper into how they...
by Jay | Nov 5, 2021 | Classical Guitar Basics, Classical Guitar Lessons, Classical Guitar Methods, Classical Guitar Teachers, Classical Guitar Technique, Teaching Blog Post
10th Year Anniversary Edition:I’m revisiting some of my best old posts on playing guitar. Enjoy! There are thousands of ways to play guitar, and most of them aren’t “classical,” by any stretch of the imagination. Why would anyone choose to play...
by Jay | Nov 4, 2021 | Blog, Guitar Lessons, Teaching Blog Post
Music Theory? Why Should I Care? 10th Year Anniversary Edition:I’m revisiting some of my best old posts on playing guitar. Enjoy! I was never much of a music theory whiz. Music theory was required for music majors—lots of music theory—and it always...
