Improving your guitar playing is not just about practice. Jamming with others is an important an often underrated part of any guitar player’s program.When you jam with other guitarists and musicians you are putting what you know to the test. You will quickly determine your level of proficiency. E.g. If your timing is not spot on…
Category: Guitar Students
Posts aimed at guitar students
Count Those Practice Minutes
The classic quote “What you can measure you can multiply” can be applied to your guitar practice. By measuring how much practice you actually do in theory you can improve on your score. I can say with complete confidence that in 99% of cases the students who use a practice log to measure their practice are…
Do Teenagers Who Learn Guitar Develop Better Adult Brains?
It turns out that during our teenage years our brains perform what is called ‘Synaptic pruning’. This where our brains remove neural connections that are not being used. A case of use it or lose it. The brain is basically going through its final stages of development which is completed by our early 20’s. What…
Bite Size Theory Lesson – F major key
Learning all the keys in one go is a big ask so how about we learn one at a time. Today’s key is F major. F major has 1 flat note. All keys consists of 7 notes (alphabetic letters). So every key will have an A, B, C, D, E, F & G. In the…
Classical guitar relaxer…
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The Story of Guitar
The BBC have put together a great bunch of interviews with guitarists. I recommend you take a look. It features Edge (U2) showing off how he gets the sound for Streets with no Name. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Pete Townshend (The Who), B.B. King and others. http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/guitars/ If you have any questions email: david@g4guitar.com.au For…
Why Learning Guitar is Good for the Environment
There are many ways you can spend your time. Surfing the net, watching TV, playing video games, going for a drive, going to the movies or going Shopping. So how do these options compare to guitar? Lets look at TV. An average TV uses around 200 watts per hour. More if its a plasma TV….
How do Rockstars become Rockstars?
Watching an episode of Law & Order about desperate young hopefuls in New York City made me realise that many of our students are probably asking the question ‘How do Rockstars actually make it?’ The lead detective describes how by his estimates 50,000 guitarists every year give up everything on a quest to become the…
Where to from here?
Many guitar students will reach a point in their learning where they will complete all the G4 GUITAR Levels and will want to go to the next stage. At G4 GUITARwe see our role as taking you to a level where you will be accepted into a higher education course enabling you to become professional. That leads us…
Live Music Concerts – What’s all the fuss?
Live music is one of those topics that when described by one person who was at the concert to another who was not is actually quite annoying. When someone says to me “I saw this amazing band. They were so tight and the guitarist was so good it was scary. The songs were simply magical…
Are you progressing too slowly?
A student recently ask me a question about their progress. They were concerned that they were not progressing quick enough after comments from someone who said they thought their progress was slow. Here was my response; Your progress. Ultimately we (G4GUITAR) can only guide you. Your personal progress will depend on many factors and is…
Don’t Give Up Your Day Job…
Perhaps your parents, friends, neighbours or even the TV told you to get a real job. “You will never earn a living playing guitar”. Well I am here to say they are WRONG! Very wrong. Playing guitar has pretty much supported me for over 20 years and will continue to do so probably for the…
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