A common aspect of the guitar playing technique that causes much trouble is playing the scales at fast tempos. Arpeggios and chords are more convenient so those problems seem more realistic to overcome. But what to do with the scales? Specially when plucking strings with fingers not a pick. About how fast tempos are we [...]
Read more →One good opportunity to develop the skills of playing the guitar is learning the guitar from textbook. However there are many textbooks (in Estonian a dozen, but hundreds in English and Russian), and a lot of them are available our stores already. How to choose the right textbook and how many should one person have? [...]
Read more →A German study looked at professional violinists and found out that before the age of 21, they had all practised an instrument for 10 000 hours. Given that the violin playing started at the age of 6 mostly, it makes an average of 666 hours a year. In round figures we can say that these [...]
Read more →As promised before – let’s dig a little deeper into the subject of practicing and this time I’ll express my thoughts about developing guitarists’ playing technique as this is a very important factor in successful guitar playing. Sometimes people say that one or another guitarist (or other instrumentalist or a singer or an athlet) has [...]
Read more →At music schools it is quite common to ask from friends: “Well, how much do you practice these days?” The answer is a number of hours from 0-8 and some crazy guys clame to practice more. But it is very rare that somebody asks you: “How do you practice?” And if you would have to [...]
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