Funky Fingerstyle Guitar
Have you ever had times where you’ve tried to master a guitar technique, but get stuck no matter how hard you try?
Or maybe you’ve seen someone play something and they make it look oh-so-easy, yet when you try it, you “hit the wall?”
I’ve been there too, but I’ve been fortunate enough to be shown how to navigate this inner mental game by master teachers. [Read more…] about The Joy of Horizontal Musical Flow
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In this episode we have student Q & A. Ben from Virginia asks… “How do you maintain a repertoire of several fingerstyle guitar pieces and also learn new tunes, arrangements and concepts?” [Read more…] about FGH-0002: How do you remember old fingerstyle guitar pieces and also learn new ones?
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Welcome to the new Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout Podcast, Episode 1.
In this very first episode we have student Q & A. Gary from New Zealand asks… “How will practicing triplet based rhythms like 6/8 make my straight 4/4 time better for fingerstyle guitar?” [Read more…] about FGH-0001: How will practicing 6/8 make my straight 4/4 time better?
That’s the sound of what you’d want a bass player or drummer to make so that if you were playing with them, you’d feel the beat from what they are doing – not only hear the note.
[Read more…] about How to Develop Your Thumb’s “Thump” for Fingerstyle Guitar
A few days ago, I was contacted by Matt Oestreicher for a podcast interview on The Mindful Musician. Our talk started with Matt mentioning how much he loved my 2015 in review post from last year.
Knowing that this resonated with him made me realize I should do it again, so here is my 2016 review.
I will give it to you straight, and say where I did well, and where I think could have been better.
[Read more…] about 2016 in Review: An Honest and Transparent Look at My Successes & Failures This Past Year
I have a lot of students uploading videos to me on StudyWithAdam.com, and often they’ll send a note along with their video upload:
“Adam, I could not play this without making mistakes, but here is the best I could do….”
First off…I’ll admit it…I am as guilty as you are 🙂
[Read more…] about Practicing Guitar and The Illusion of Perfection
(Warning – I use some shocking language in this post. Don’t worry I won’t use it at the dinner table or in front of your kids.)
I have story that have wanted to share with you for a while. It’s about “beating the Devil” with your guitar.
As with many life lessons, I recently had to “re-certify” that I learned this lesson.
[Read more…] about How to Beat the Devil With Your Guitar
This is just a quick post to let you know that my new solo fingerstyle CD “Play Pretty for the People” will become available twice 🙂
[Read more…] about NEW CD “Play Pretty for the People”, Release Dates 8/30 and 9/6
Greetings, and I hope you are doing fabulously!
This year has been full of rich, satisfying “real life” stuff like touring, family,
moving, teaching my “Study With Adam” online guitar students, and recording.
In January 2016 I offered you a “transparency report” and I mentioned one of my goals for 2016 was to record a new CD.
[Read more…] about Saying No to Distraction and Yes to Yourself
Often we have ideas of how our technique “should” look or be when we play guitar. It can cause a lot of cognitive dissonance when our ideas and the MUSIC itself disagree.
Hopefully this info will help you melt into mental, musical and spiritual grooviness.
[Read more…] about Discovering Your Guitar Technique
