Funky Fingerstyle Guitar
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.
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I’m gonna give you some straight talk about practicing guitar and taking good care of your body and hands.
This is especially relevant today since so many people are self taught from videos and don’t have a real life teacher for feedback.
One of the favorite “myths” that fans and students hold in mind is that “great musicians practice 24 hours a day, to the exclusion of everything else and that’s why they are so good!”
People always ask me how “many hours a day I practice” and I see that they are living exactly this fantasy of “wow you are a dedicated artist who practices all the time!”
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