June 28 2009 Vol 208

"The Principles Of Correct Practice For Guitar"

Your First Step to True Ability

 

 

"Chromatic Octave Exercise"

 

Timeless Truths From "The Principles"


Performance Video: "Bach s in Bm"



Announcing
a NEW GuitarPrinciples Forum!

 

An Important New Offering From GuitarPrinciples! "Chromatic Octave Exercise"
...a vital part of left hand development.

I am happy to announce that I have completed a new product for students and fans of GuitarPrinciples, one that I have been wanting to get to for quite awhile. It is an exercise that I give to all private students at a particular point in their development. It is for the left hand, and it gives an essential kind of development that no other exercise does in as effective a way.

Although scale work and other single note exercises are vital, even primary for left hand development, there is a level of stretch and strength that the left hand needs to have to handle many of the playing tasks imposed upon it that scale work alone will not provide. That is why I give this exercise. It is now available, with my all important practice instructions, for everyone. Even better, it is available for instant download! You can get to work on it right away!

To learn more, watch the video below.......

Timeless Truths From "The Principles"
By Jamie Andreas

"Practicing one thing is practicing everything..."

"What you are as a person is what you will be as a guitarist..."

"To know and not to do is not yet to know..."

"Learning the guitar is the process of learning how to hold the guitar, and how to touch the strings."


All of the work I have created for GuitarPrinciples, all the books, DVD, courses, lessons, and hundreds of essays, reveal the truth of learning the guitar, playing the guitar, and mastering the guitar. The more you study my work, and truly give it your open attention, the greater will be your understanding, and therefore you power to reach your guitar playing dreams.

The sayings above, taken from and endlessly elaborated upon in my work, condense some of the most important truths about guitar greatness. I urge you to visitwww.guitarprinciples.com regularly, and read as much as you can.

You will increasingly understand how ordinary and natural guitar greatness is. You will see the elegant simplicity and endless intensity of what I am saying. It is my endless journey. If you love the guitar it will become yours as well.

The more you study my work the more you will understand the truth of guitar greatness.

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Performance Video: "Bach Bouree in Bm"

By Jamie Andreas

I have posted a new performance video at the new community guitar site started by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. It is a piece by Bach that I have loved ever since I heard Andres Segovia play it on the first classical guitar album I ever got. Here is the link to the video:

"Bach Bouree in Bm" by Jamie Andreas

Since our company is a two time winner of the "Acoustic Magazine Players Choice Award" I thought I would check out the community after receiving an invitation to do so. I have made a number of posts in answer to people suffering from the usual "I can't play anything well" syndrome. I am trying to make the point to these "guitar sufferers" that it is possible for anyone to play the guitar well, and to become a great player if you are willing to do the work. Well, as someone famous once said "Let those who have ears, hear!".

You might want to check out the community, there are lots of good fingerstyle players posting performances of all types of fingerstyle guitar, as well as many groups on various topics of interest to guitarists.

Acoustic Guitar Magazine has created a new community site for guitarists. I have made a number of contributions there, including this performance of Bach's Bouree in Bm. It is easy to join and has lots of things to offer those interested in fingerstyle guitar.

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Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar Book
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Announcing a NEW GuitarPrinciples Forum!

"My Principled Practice"

If you are serious about your guitar playing, and would like to get better and keep getting better, this forum is for you. If you use GuitarPrinciples products, and want to make sure you are practicing correctly and getting the results you should, this forum is for you!

You are invited to post videos of your "finished products", those things you are practicing and believe you have taken as far as you can, and I will give you my personal assessment of your results, and indicate what you need to do to improve. Other experienced players will do the same.

Now, what other company not only sells you the materials to improve your playing, but checks up on you to make sure you are doing your homework correctly!

If you are timid, you can stop by and take a peek over the shoulders of some of the other students in the classroom! You will learn a lot by seeing how others are doing and what kind of grade they got!

Visit "My Principled Practice"

THE POWER THIS COURSE WILL GIVE YOU AS A GUITAR PLAYER CAN NOT BE OVERESTIMATED

MASTER SCALES, ARPEGGIOS AND MODES ACROSS THE ENTIRE NECK!

This is the latest course offered to you by Jamie Andreas for Guitar Principles.
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Experience the GuitarPrinciples Difference!

"...Thank you Jamie. Amazing as it seems, I gained so much more from my 2 lessons with you than I gained from a guitar teacher that I had for about a year and a half. He is a great player, however does not have your ability to break down the fundamentals of all the important aspects of guitar playing."

Matt

"...That was the greatest guitar education that money could buy, JUST AFTER ONE LESSON! The elbow stiffness that I had before, I don't have now. It's weird, nobody had ever pointed that out to me before. I'm doing that Stetina exercise faster than 100 now. THANK YOU so much Jamie."

Brian J


Solve Your Guitar Problems...with webcam lessons with Jamie!
Jane in Maine: got her beautifully functioning right hand fingerstyle position from webcam lessons with Jamie! Paul in Monterry: finally got his rock bends on electric sounding sweet (with the correct motion from the hand/forearm) from webcam lessons with Jamie! Greg in Australia: has achieved left hand finger separation and strength, even at the first fret, from webcam lessons with Jamie!

Downloadable COURSES! Available INSTANTLY in the Guitar Principles Store!

Stairway To Heaven: Note by Note

-how to play every note

-how to make every move

-mp3, video, pix, detailed text instructions

Toward Mastery Of Scales

finger by finger instructions for scalar movement

Classical/Fingerstyle Foundation Course

THE essential foundation for all classical/fingerstyle players

Bach: Prelude #1 "Well Tempered Clavier"

a unique and beautiful arrangement for steel string guitar

GP Newsletter Archives

All Essential Essays, Mel Bay Course, Practice Secrets, and much more!

Mel Bay Vol1: Note by Note

Principles applied to Mel Bay Method--

Learn to read music,

Music theory

Pick style chord melody



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"To enable anyone who wishes to play the guitar to be able to do so, and to enable anyone who already plays to get to their next level of ability. This is done by teaching the student the"The Principles Of Correct Practice For Guitar"

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Thanks for reading, and see you soon!........Jamie

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