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







 


spotlight

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

• Arthur
• Brad
• Christina
• Olivia
• 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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The folks at Fender are offering guitarsits in the U.S. a chance to win a very special instrument—a prototype model for Fender’s new American Special series.


With timeless looks, world-renowned tone and rock-solid U.S. guitar-building skill, American Special guitars are built by the people, for the people. They feature Fender’s best-selling Texas Special pickups for tone that sings and snarls, tough and beautiful gloss finishes and 22-fret satin-back necks for effortlessly smooth sliding.

Three U.S. grand-prize winners will each receive one of three American Special prototype guitars—an American Special Stratocaster®, American Special Stratocaster HSS or American Special Telecaster®.

These guitars are actual prototypes—early design versions—for each of the three American Special series instruments. They’re killer and they’re well broken in, having been poked, prodded and likewise roughed up pretty good in the test-pilot phase, sent to photo shoots and dragged off to showcases (the fact that they bear the bumps, bruises and scars to prove it only makes them even cooler, though).

Check out the American Specials!

KIDS: DON'T ENTER THIS CONTEST WITHOUT YOUR PARENTS PERMISSION AND GUIDANCE.



question

The Question of the week is:

Why is my guitar out of tune as soon as I tune it?


I find it humorously ironic that last week's question was about a guitar that was exhibiting dehydration symptoms and this week we're at the opposite end of the spectrum.

Here, in the NY Metro area, we are super-saturated. We've had floods all over and many of my students have had no power for several days. The ones who escaped the floods are having trouble keeping their guitars in tune because of the excessive humidity in the air. Don't forget, strings get tighter/higher, when the atmosphere is moisture-laden. I don't mean when it's a little damp. I mean that the humidity is over 90%.

I don't recommend using a dehumidifier to dry the air out unless you are in a geographic area that is constantly and extremely humid. Just tough it out until we dry out over the next couple days. We always opt for a slightly over humidified instrument than a dry one.

I hope you all have power restored soon and that the school age students won't lose spring break because of the closings this week.

~ Student Newsletter
2/10

~ Student Newsletter
11/09

~ 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!

 


SUFFERN, NY

We're 3 months into 2010 and heading into spring. How about springing into learning a new instrument or making your guitar playing better than it's ever been? Sounds good to me.

If you are an intermediate or advanced guitarist, this March you can begin to turn your playing around. Stop working so hard only to 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. Don't miss this opportunity to learn to play guitar from a highly experienced, effective instructor. Although I don't have a lot of time available, our schedules might coordinate, so contact me.

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

CALL TODAY!
201 • 370 • 0584


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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Lots of pros choose it for both practice and performance.

Maybe it would be right for you.



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