Guitar Noise

Is it better to practice a piece slowly at first or quickly? Teachers and players usually recommend slowly, but there are instances where fast might work. Jamie explores why both methods work, but more importantly details how to recognize and determine when one method is better than the other.

If you’re traveling along the paths of learning guitar, you will eventually find yourself at a plateau in your learning. Longtime Guitar Noise Contributor, Jamie Andreas of Guitar Principles, explains why simply changing the way you look at being on a plateau, looking at it with the eye of a Guitar Master, can help you move forward in a short time.

In the final installment of her video lessons on the Guitar Noise arrangement of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” guitar teacher extraordinaire Jamie Andreas takes you step by step through the bridge section of the song with very clear and detailed instruction. I learned quite a bit from Jamie’s videos and I hope you do, too!

In this second installment of her video lessons on the Guitar Noise arrangement of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” guitar teacher extraordinaire Jamie Andreas guides you through the verses of the song with very clear and detailed step-by-step instruction, designed to help you with the fingering involved in the tricky chord changes.

Guitar Noise bids a heartfelt “welcome back” to Jamie Andreas of Guitar Prinicples (www.guitarprinciples.com). Jamie has honored us by putting together a series of video lessons of performance notes for our Guitar Noise arrangement of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” She has a wonderful way of explaining the hows and whys of finger positioning and you’re in for a treat. Enjoy this first lesson and rest assured more are on the way.

To make steady progress as a student of the guitar, you need to set realistic and attainable goals. Here some advice on adding goals to your practice routine.

As with all things, there is a right way and a wrong way to practice guitar. Learning the correct way is an essential way to making real growth as a musician.

Nearly anyone can learn to play the guitar. As well as having the will to learn, it is essential that the student finds a competent teacher to guide them.

There are two important goals for any guitar student: learning to play properly; and making sure that practicing and playing guitar is something you enjoy.

Feeling tense while playing guitar indicates a lack of awareness. When your body and mind are both relaxed it is the result of total awareness.

It is possible to be a great guitar player but a lousy guitar teacher. Let’s take a closer look at a few things that make a good guitar teacher.

How a great guitar player practices is much more important than in how they play. Practice shows us how they became good at what they do.

This is the final part in a look at combating stage fright. In this part we’ll come up a few concrete ways to keep stage fright from spoiling a performance.

We’re continuing our look at stage fright. This is the second part of three which is aimed at helping you feel more comfortable playing in front of a crowd.

For a performer the effects of stage fright are devastating. Let’s unravel what stage fright is so we can better avoid it when playing in front of others.

Difficulty in changing chords is often the result of bad habits. We’re going to look at a couple supposedly easy chords and make sure we practice good habits.

There are as many reasons for not taking lessons as there are for finding a great instructor. Let’s take a look at arguments for and against guitar lessons.

This question comes up all the time. This careful answer tries to look at things from both sides of the equation and give a balanced response.

This is part two in a look at correcting bad guitar habits. We’re going to take an analytical approach to recognizing problems and setting proper goals.

If your guitar playing is filled with bad habits there is something you can do about it. This is the first of two parts on changing your guitar practice habits.