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How to Listen to Your Own Guitar Playing

By Adam Rafferty 2 Comments

Adam Rafferty - How to Listen to Your Own Guitar PLayingWhen you play the guitar, what are you listening for in your playing?

  • Are you listening for small and important details?
  • Or are you stepping back and listening to the “whole”?
  • How should you be listening?

Let’s take a look at this…

When a painter works on detail, she is super close up to the canvas. Each brushstroke, texture and shading is accounted for.

That requires serious microscope up close focus!

However, there’s another mode of viewing the canvas which is stepping way back and looking at the “whole.”

That puts all the tiny details in a different context.

Playing music can be like this too. We can be very close up, and hear minute details, or we can step back and hear the entire, overall sound.
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How to Develop Your Thumb’s “Thump” for Fingerstyle Guitar

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Adam Rafferty - How to develop Your Thumbs THUMP for Fingerstyle Guitar

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.
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NEW CD “Play Pretty for the People”, Release Dates 8/30 and 9/6

By Adam Rafferty 3 Comments

Play Pretty for the People - Adam Rafferty Fingerstyle Guitar CDThis is just a quick post to let you know that my new solo fingerstyle CD “Play Pretty for the People” will become available twice đŸ™‚
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Saying No to Distraction and Yes to Yourself

By Adam Rafferty 8 Comments

Saying no to distraction and YES to yourself - Adam Rafferty
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.

Transparency Report and Major Goal Achieved

In January 2016 I offered you a “transparency report” and I mentioned one of my goals for 2016 was to record a new CD.
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Filed Under: Fingerstyle Guitar, Personal Developement, Product Creation, Recording, Success

Discovering Your Guitar Technique

By Adam Rafferty 6 Comments

ultimate-secret
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.
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