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


• Brad
• Carol
• Christina
• Danielle
• Olivia
• Rob
• Talia

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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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Welcome new student Arthur! You've been wanting to learn to master the guitar for quite a while. Years, in fact!! I'm glad you're beginning your long sought pursuit. I believe you have time and are willing to do what's necessary to accomplish your guitar goals. It's great to have you in my schedule.

Student newsletter should be posted in the coming week or 2.

Hand Care
and Gift Lessons links are now up.

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The Question of the week is:

I know everyone likes to play their power chords in Drop D tuning, so one only needs to play short bar for their power chords. I prefer to play my power chords with 2 finger. Is there any time I HAVE TO alter my tuning to Drop D and use the bar fingering of my power chords?

This student didn't really think about what he/she said. Had they thougth for a moment, they would have realized the answer. Nevertheless, I'll cover this question anyway.

If you're playing in the key of D or D minor, you're going to want/need a D5 power chord (which is neither powerful nor a chord) you must have a bass D an octave below your 4th string D.

[I'm not suggesting that a D5 is not harmony or is illegitimate to play ~ just that it doesn't meet the criteria to called a "chord." Don't send angry emails, tweets, FB messages nor BB messages :-)]

~ Student Newsletter
11/09

~ Student Newsletter
6/09

~ Student Newsletter
4/09

~ Student Newsletter
2/09

~ Student Newsletter 12/08

•  Giving Back

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• How to Buy A Guitar

• Lefty Revolt

• Save Your Guitar!

 


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This is the month of Valentine's Day and Presidents' Day. The sunlight is lasting later each day and musicians all over are emerging from their winter doldrums. So, kick up your playing or learn to play the guitar!

If Valentine's Day were Valentine's Month, the conversation hearts on this site would read, "WANT 2 LEARN 2 PLAY" or "4GET THE TAB" or maybe even "G U PLAY A GR8 AXE."

In honor of the Presidents, most especially Honest Abe, I will not post a lie. If you are interested in learning to play the guitar correctly the first time, please call today. I'll explain my time tested, original method that is an all-encompassing approach to the guitar.

If you are an intermediate or advanced guitarist, 2008 can be the year you turn your playing around. Stop working and sounding like an amateur. Get more serious 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. Don't get shut out of learning to play guitar from a highly experienced, effective instructor.

My schedule has shuffled for the winter, so, I have a couple of openings. Although I don't have many lesson times available, our schedules may coordinate well, so contact me.

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

CALL TODAY!
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Deloped 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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The Guitar Chair.

Lots of pros choose it for both practice and performance.

Maybe it would be right for you.



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