Funky Fingerstyle Guitar
Lately I have been working on some new guitar techniques that are taking me “outside my comfort zone.”
Working on new things can be very unsettling – for all of us. Sometimes feeling like a beginner is fun, but at other times a lot of mental resistance comes up.
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When I am asked about practicing guitar, I usually preach the gospel of repetitive mindful practice.
However – I have been wondering lately…”do I really know what the heck I am doing?”
You can usually find me on tour in a hotel room practicing the pieces I play on stage like “Billie Jean”, “Superstition” , “In My Life” for the 10,000th time.
I recently had a guitar student upload a video to Study With Adam for coaching, the title read
“In My Life, The Beatles, Arranged by Adam and Butchered by Craig”
I had to laugh out loud. LOL!!!!
It’s important to know that what we HEAR in our playing is different from what people SEE in our guitar videos.
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Here’s a question I get from a lot of readers:
“Adam, I can’t seem to get through a piece without making mistakes.”
Well, neither can I!
There are a few tips and insights I can give you though – on how I practice and “problem solve.”
This article is about some of my early struggles as a pro guitar player and how I overcame them…I hope you like the info here.
As a young jazz guitar player, I really struggled to make ends meet.
I taught, played weddings, and did little gigs and in NYC it was a “scramble”. If you live in a smaller town, with fewer musicians – it can be a little easier.
You may be in this situation yourself, wondering how you can boost your gigs, raise your prices, and so on.
I needed a solution for my situation at the time.
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