Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart ~
Andres Segovia

 

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"Over 30 years of experience & success teaching people who play guitar
to become musicians whose instrument is the guitar"


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Airmont

Allendale

Fair Lawn

Franklin Lakes

Glen Rock

Hawthorne

Hillburn

HoHoKus

Mahwah

Midland Park

Montvale

Oradell

Paramus

Park Ridge

Ramsey

Ridgewood

River Edge

Saddle Brook

Saddle River

Suffern

Tallman

Teaneck

Tuxedo

Upper Saddle River

Waldwick

Washington Township

Westwood

Woodcliff Lake

Wyckoff







 


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spotlight

This week the students in the SPOTLIGHT (for last week's achievements) are:

• Brad
• Mambo
• Melissa (Fair Lawn)
• Melissa (Westwood)
• Sam

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Some students should profit more from their practice time. I suggest that they embrace what enables progress. REPETITION. I must add that the right attitude about difficult music and remaining focused (yes, it's a choice) rather than being distracted by every idle thought will go a long way in attaining the technique and progress you desire.

Remember, excellence doesn't come easily or everyone would be a great guitarist.

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(New Student Newsletter link is below if you missed it last week.)

Have a great summer vacation Blair, Danielle, Dylan, Jason, Merav, Olivia and Talia!! All of the above students have been "spotlighted" during the past year.

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The Question of the week is:

I'll be away all summer. When will resume our lessons? They'll be the same day and time, right?

If you're one of my students, and are taking the whole summer off, know that I would love to see you back in my schedule when you return. Please call to set up lessons as soon as you return.

Customarily, I take on new or waiting list students over the summer, because so many students are away. Once, I had the unpleasant task of telling a student who took his time calling to resume his lessons after a 2+ month break, that I didn’t have room for him in my schedule.

So, call me as soon as you’re back!

~ Student Newsletter
6/09

~ Student Newsletter
4/09

~ Student Newsletter
2/09

~ Student Newsletter 12/08

•  Giving Back

• Guitar Maintenance

• How to Buy A Guitar

• Lefty Revolt

• Save Your Guitar!

 


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If improving your guitar playing technique and knowledge to more and better than it's ever been OR if learning to play guitar is on your summer To Do list, it's time to take the plunge. Now is the time to make your guitar aspirations happen!

If you are an intermediate or advanced guitarist, you can improve your playing and begin to attain your goals. Stop working so hard only to still sound like an amateur. Yes, you have to work at becoming a better guitarist, so make your effort profitable. Get more serious and better results with your music under the instruction of a competent teacher.

I possess decades of experience instructing beginners through advanced players as well assisting my students with audition preparation. My students are youth, adults and gifted children who are musically inclined. Don't miss this opportunity to learn to play guitar from a highly experienced, effective instructor.

Summer is the time to get into my schedule because several students take the summer off.

If you are interested in guitar lessons for a child, please read the kids & guitars link.

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www.guitartechniquetutor.com has been developed by a NY metro area professional guitarist with over 30 years of experience training people who "play the guitar” to become “musicians whose instrument is the guitar.

Don't Let "Technique" or "Tutor" scare you.

(The domain names I wanted were all taken so www.guitartechniquetutor.com was the best I could do to suggest superior and effective guitar instruction.)

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Real musicianship among guitarists is rare. The purpose of this web site is to offer beginner guitarists, the most comprehensive instruction available to them in the Bergen & Rockland County area and bring beginner, intermediate and advanced guitarists to the highest level of playing they can achieve.

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If you want to really learn to play the guitar or are already a disciplined guitarist and want to revolutionize your technique, strength, endurance, understanding and your performance skills, this web site offers you the means to contact a competent instructor, who can help you play better by training you: to make your practice time its most effective, to prepare your music and yourself for auditions and other performances, to use correct form, to master guitar technique, to develop speed and endurance, fretboard knowledge, to understand musical scores and compositions and to approach ear training and sight reading so you get results.

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www.guitartechniquetutor.com offers every guitarist advice in all aspects of the guitarist's development and when my schedule permits, private instruction in Airmont, Allendale, Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, Hackensack, Hawthorne, Hillburn, Ho-Ho-Kus, Midland Park, Oradell, Paramus, Ridgewood, River Edge, Saddle Brook, Saddle River, Suffern, Tallman, Teaneck, Upper Saddle River, Waldwick, Washington Township, Tuxedo, Westwood or Woodcliff Lake, Wyckoff etc.

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The truth is, if you lack strength and do not have broad knowledge and full understanding of what you’re doing with your guitar, you will not progress as a musician; instead, you will develop inconsistency and become complacent or frustrated with your state of musical stagnation.

Q's & A's

The Question of the Week


The Question of the Week is an informative source for answers to students and web site visitors’ questions. This site is dedicated to helping all guitarists become the best musicians they can be. If you are in a quandary about some guitar related issue, the more expert advice you get, the better. Please submit any questions you have for possible posting as the Question of the Week. Visit often to see your or your friends' questions addressed. Tell a guitarist friend who might also have questions. For informative articles, please check the articles posted beneath the Student Newsletters on the right side of the home page for items of interest.

 

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Take care of your back and posture by sitting in
The Guitar Chair.

Lots of pros choose it for both practice and performance.

Maybe it would be right for you.

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