Category: Music Publisher: Christopher Cotter
ISBN-10: 0692280421
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 102
Copyright: September 2, 2014
ISBN-13: 9780692280423
A Daily Guitar Practice Program for the Development of Accuracy, Dexterity, Strength, and Speed.
Learn to Burn!!!
A great tool for any guitar player/student! Here is a step-by-step program that is sure to improve your guitar playing. The Daily Burn combines a daily practice routine with an effective practice log and tracking system into one easy-to-use workbook that really works. You will see and hear improvements in all aspects of your playing every day, no matter what your current skill level. Using this simple system, you will develop the “Four Pillars” of guitar technique: accuracy, dexterity, strength, and speed. You will be playing in top form, giving you the freedom to achieve your guitar playing goals. You will open and use this book every day.
PROGRAM FEATURES
·Functional book/workbook combination that includes a complete practice log and progress tracking system for best results.
·Over 200 daily practice sessions.
·Maximize efficiency and effectiveness of practice sessions, rehearsals, and performances.
·Beneficial for electric and acoustic players in any style, at any skill level.
·Find, isolate, and eliminate “problem areas” in technique.
·Produces precise synchronization between the hands and fingers.
·Helps reduce tension and strain due to improper technique and ineffective practice habits.
·Avoid and/or recover from “musician’s injuries” such as carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis.
·Improved technique, physical and mental preparation will allow you to play at your best in any situation at any time.
Excerpt
Introduction
Playing the guitar is a physical discipline; and like any other skill, it requires preparation and training to be done well. In this book, you will use a program that is proven to assist you in the development of proper and effective playing technique. By laying a firm foundation, with the use of a specific practice routine that you can do on a regular basis, you can be certain that you will develop the physical skills necessary to improve in every aspect of your guitar playing.
When you embark on any physical practice routine, you must first get your body into shape. Athletes spend months in the off-season getting themselves into shape, then move on to training camps where they train harder and deeper with their teams. When one joins a branch of the armed forces, he/she first goes through boot camp. Police, fire, and rescue workers must be in excellent condition. Guitar players are no exception. Many guitarists undermine their talent and never reach their true potential as players by simply neglecting the important step of getting “in shape” by developing good fundamental technique. Get the picture?
Guitar technique is one of the most widely sought after, talked about, and studied facets of guitar playing. Myriad volumes have been authored on the subject. There are countless instructional materials available to the developing guitarist. In the quest for proper guitar technique and the understanding of it, we must first develop accuracy, synchronization and strength in the hands and fingers. With this strength and accuracy comes the dexterity and speed necessary to practice, perform, and effectively bring our musical ideas to the guitar.
It is much easier to develop good technical habits at the beginning of your studies, rather than having to unlearn bad technique habits or relearn the habit of playing with good technique. Muscles develop a “memory” when they are used in repeated tasks. This is why when you learn to type on a keyboard, you first go one finger at a time. Then, as you continue to type the same words over and over, your fingers begin to “remember” where the keys are. It is the same with the guitar. Your fingers will remember how to execute something correctly and accurately with the proper practice. However, they will also remember how to do something awkwardly, sloppy, and just plain wrong.
The goal of this book is to provide you with a daily practice routine in conjunction with a practice log and progress tracking system that come together to help you to develop, improve, and maintain a firm foundation of guitar technique. This book/workbook combination is designed for guitarists of all skill levels, from the beginning student to the professional guitarist to the multi-faceted guitar instructor. This is a time-tested program that has been used by hundreds of students. Using this simple system, you will develop the “Four Pillars” of guitar technique: accuracy, dexterity, strength, and speed. You will be playing in top form, giving you the freedom to achieve your musical and guitar playing goals.
