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Play Better Guitar - Expand Your Horizons
The most adaptable system is Guitar-eze.
If you've already played some guitar... been frustrated... want to play better guitar... want
to play guitar differently... want to be more versatile on guitar... want to play guitar more easily... want to play guitar
by ear... want to play guitar more by "feel"...
Here's where a guitar player can become a better guitar player.
That is - a more versatile guitar player.
Let's face it - every guitar player has changed tunings. Even if it's just drop-D,
or putting on a capo.
What if you could play guitar - really play guitar - for more than just one song or one lick
- in another tuning. You owe it to yourself to try. I've seen the jaws drop when I play. I've watched the
puzzled expressions from the audience. I've seen the raised eyebrows from fellow guitar players. Here's what Wikipedia says about open D tuning, the basis for Guitar-eze.
The comments are always the same -
"what a great sound"
"that's so full sounding"
"you do leads like that?"
"that's a whole new thing"
"wow"
It's all one simple move - to the world of open-tuned guitar. Of course, it's absolutely
perfect for beginning guitar, acoustic or electric.
But it's a whole new world for the guitar player.
Just a few of the benefits of open tuned guitar like Guitar-eze's open-D:
- riffing - like you've never riffed before
- slide guitar - the way it was meant to be played
- harmonic and overtones you never dreamed of
- a low-end crunch like nothing else
- acoustic tone like nothing else
- "ear players" especially love it
- playing by ear is enhanced dramatically
- Guitar-eze open-D opens the door to other interesting tunings
...and on and on. It's as if standard tuning was just the (more difficult)
primer or starting point. Now you can really start to play guitar.
Flipping back and forth is no problem, either. And of course, open tuning is nothing
new. Check any guitar website out there. They all make reference to open tunings. This method just puts
it altogether for a guitarist who wants a different way to play. Players like:
- Keith Richards
- Ry Cooder
- Joni Mitchell
- Elmore James
- Bo Diddley
- Muddy Waters
- Jimmy Page
- Mick Taylor
- Don Everly
- Robert Johnson
- Bonnie Raitt
- John Lee Hooker
...and countless others. So why is open tuning so under-appreciated and under-utilized?
- standard tuning (as the name implies) is the adopted standard
- standard tuning is not the easiest or most versatile tuning
- a simpler guitar method is generally not a good thing for music schools
- standard tuning is great
- open tuning is great too
- add open tuning like Guitar-eze to your guitar arsenal
That's what I suggest on this web site. Especially if progress is slow in standard
tuning. Frustrated guitar player? You owe it to yourself to give Guitar-eze a try.
When you get Guitar-eze, you've got me as often as you need. Help is always just an
e-mail away, anytime.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
The Left Hand/Right Hand Relationship in Guitar
It's incredible how much time and energy is devoted to the development of left hand (or chording hand, for southpaws)
on guitar.
All guitar learning systems, including Guitar-eze, spend a lot of time, a LOT of time, describing patterns
and technique for the left hand. Obviously there is a lot to master - scales, chord positions, licks, memorization of where
the notes are, and on and on.
In fact, most guitar books, websites, even teachers I've spoken with and watched in action,
focus on "how to play it", on the left hand.
My take on the left hand/right hand relationship in guitar is
this:
The left hand represents the technical, and the right hand represents the musical.
Of course, both hands
have to be both for one to become an accomplished guitar player. But I believe there is a tilt in favor of one over the other
with respect to each hand.
Technically, for example, it's a lot harder to learn a run or a difficult chord position
on your left hand, than it is say, to strum a downstroke with your right. But how you do that simple downstroke will often
determine how the chord or run will come out sounding - good, or not so much.
There are fewer subtleties with left
hand work - in order to get it right, the lick or chord has to be executed just so, every time. The opposite is true with
right hand work. There are a thousand ways to play that downstroke pattern, in intensity, volume, speed. That, to me, is
what adds the musicality to the technique one works so hard to master on the left side.
Add to that, the old saying
that simplicity is beauty, or perfection, or whatever cliche you care to name, and suddenly you might start to wonder why
you spent so much time learning all those complicated scales, licks and chords.
Once again, the beauty of Guitar-eze
surfaces. The simplicity of the left hand stuff allows the guitarist to focus on the art of the right hand stuff. It's technique
too, no question, but technique a thousand times more subtle.
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Monday, March 12, 2007
Guitar Teachers
Love them! I love guitar teachers! I've never actually had one (100% self-taught, warts and all), but - I
have taught guitar, to both adults and children, in Guitar-eze, naturally. And I love to teach guitar. It's one
of the reasons I developed Guitar-eze, as a book. It was my desire to share the fruits of my guitar labor.
But teachers are only human - and they can't always save you guitar students from the frustration that sets in with slow
progress on guitar. Many teachers have so many students, it really isn't much difference to them if they lose a few
to diminishing interest or slow development.
There are so many great guitar teachers, and yet, I have found, lots of disappointed guitar students. So clearly,
if he or she is a great teacher it's not their fault. It could be the system they teach isn't connecting with the student.
And all I see out there, apart from Guitar-eze is one system, packaged many, many, many different ways. All those books.
CDs. DVDs. Websites. Online lessons. They are all teaching the same things, the same way.
Guitar-eze, on the other hand, dares to be different. We dare to suggest that, hey, if you're not making progress
on guitar, or not making it fast enough, or not getting enough out of guitar, or are simply looking for something different
with guitar, we are a different way. Happily, it's also a much simpler way, making it the perfect guitar method for
those frustrated, or slow-progress guitar players. It also happens to fit really well with children, of any age.
Not to mention the fringe, such as vocalists looking to accompany themselves on guitar.
Now, back to teachers - I say go out and find one, no question about it. The truth be told, all the guitar resources
out there, in standard tuning, will be very difficult to master on one's own. Self-taught guitar is not easy, in standard
tuning. Back to that point about teachers losing students - it's not the teacher's fault, it's the program.
Now I heavily promote Guitara-eze as a guitar system which can very readily be self taught. It is just that much
easier, especially at the front end, when all the traditional frustration typically kicks in. You actually play right
away in Guitar-eze, and you don't look back.
So my advice would be - put the two together - especially if you are frustrated. Don't give up on guitar.
Give up the system you're frustrated with. Get Guitar-eze, and bring it to your teacher. He or she, remember is
experienced in guitar. The lightbulb should come on - and you will play guitar.
...and hopefully, another lost guitar student is saved.
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If you need the extra help, Guitar-eze with the CD-ROM walks you through the whole
process. For a limited time, the Guitar-eze Chord Book comes with the method and CD-ROM, free!
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The Guitar-eze Chord Book might be all you need to move into
the world of open-tuned guitar in a big way. If you have the basics down - strumming, some leads, this book at
under $10, is a great addition to your guitar playing arsenal.
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