Funky Fingerstyle Guitar
Last month I was at a guitar festival and a student came in for a lesson.
I tried to play her guitar and find that it was very hard to play. I told her…
“You Need a Guitar Setup!”
Students often think that they need to become “stronger” and push “harder” when in fact – the guitar should become “easier” to play.
[Read more…] about My Personal Fingerstyle Guitar Setup MeasurementsNote: This article is NOT a gripe & whine session. It’s an inquiry of “what should musicians do now that the game has changed?”
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Often when we hear a soulful musical performance we can’t imagine that the “wonderful music” had to be practiced technically.
Even though we are “feeling it” as listeners, much more than “feelings” had to go in to it.
Master musicians look at music from all angles, musical and technical.
Master musicians love it all…music and technique. They go together.
[Read more…] about Practicing Music or Practicing Guitar Technique – What’s Better?
Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who bought “Fingerstyle Favorites” last week! If you purchased between July 8 – 15, 2014 you were automatically entered to win an iPad Mini.
Here is the Prize Drawing – Captured on Video…
It’s about 5 minutes long, and I want you to see how I did the drawing. A few of you asked how I would do the drawing so that it was fair and random.
Watch Now to find out if YOU won:
A student just asked me the question from the “Ask Adam” page.
“Adam…..I have a problem of remembering songs I’ve already learned
when they haven’t been played in a couple of weeks…usually when I’m
concentrating on new material. How do you keep it all under your fingers?”
When I learn a new song, or am writing a song I have to almost have to “forget” every other song I know.
For example, I recently came up with an arrangement for “Killing me Softly” and I had to
play nothing but that song for a week.
[Read more…] about 4 Tips for Keeping Your Guitar Arrangements Under Your Fingers