by Jay | May 10, 2011 | Classical Guitar Basics
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 far as I can surmise, put a lot of careful work and thought into transitions and connections. Every...
by Jay | May 7, 2011 | Classical Guitar Basics
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. Where else in your daily life do you do all the following: At the drop of a hat, repeat a lengthy,...
by Jay | Feb 28, 2011 | Classical Guitar Basics, Classical Guitar Lessons, Classical Guitar Teachers, Classical Guitar Technique, Guitar Heroes
This is really a post about chasing windmills….and conquering the universe. I want to start of this post with a disclaimer. I have a theory about why classical guitarists are always watching their left hand, and it’s just a theory. It may be true, it may...
by Jay | Jan 15, 2011 | Blog, Classical Guitar Basics, Classical Guitar Lessons, Classical Guitar Technique
I’ve been thinking about about the difference between what I say here on this blog, and how I actually teach most of the time. In a guitar lesson, we’re working on something specific….how to play a bar chord, how to interpret a piece of music, how to...
by Jay | Dec 29, 2010 | Classical Guitar Basics, Classical Guitar Lessons, Classical Guitar Technique
I my last post I sort of left you hanging: Here’s how it ended: There’s one basic polarity that seems to yield such a huge effect and has so many repercussions that one of my students sent me a long email about how much her experience of practicing had changed...
