Monthly Archives: December 2010

Give Your Fingers Lungs!

In masterclasses and lessons I have come across passages that the student simply does not play musically. Even with repeated attempts to convey the shape and phrasing of the line students sometimes [...]

Slow Practice

In my lessons with  students I find myself repeating a few core ideas many times. Perhaps one of the most common suggestions I make to students is to... slow down. Guitarists seem to have a [...]

Memorizing Music

These days it is more common than not to see a classical guitarist perform from memory. It has become almost par for the course to have an entire recital memorized and performed without mistakes (if [...]

Recording yourself for practice

Recording yourself is one of the best ways to improve your abilities. We often have quite a different idea in our head of what our playing sounds like compared to the scathing honesty of a [...]

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