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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.
 
We'd love to hear what you think about Guitar-eze, guitar in general, or any other music related topic.  Email your thoughts and questions. 
 

  

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Happy Spring from Guitar-eze
Finally, the weather starts to get nice in our part of the world.
 
Hope the weather's fine where you are too.  Hey, if one of your ambitions for this year was to learn to play guitar, it's not too late - get going, easily and quickly with Guitar-eze.
 
I've gotten in a lot of picking and strumming over the last while.  On acoustic guitar, I've dropped the pick altogether, actually, and am working on fingerpicking.  Tricky, but I have to say - it sounds just amazing in Guitar-eze open D.  If you know about Guitar-eze, you know that I am no technician.  But I do know one thing - I can finger pick songs now, that I could NEVER do in standard tuning.
 
Have a nice time surfing the site.
 
 
 
 
8:40 am edt

Friday, January 4, 2008

Happy New Year from Guitar-eze
Hi everybody.... hope you had a wonderful holiday season, with lots of goodies. But if one of your Christmas wishes did not come true - "I want to play guitar", or, if you have a New Year's resolution - "I really want to learn to play guitar, easily", - HEY! You've come to the right place.

With Guitar-eze, you not only have found an easier way to learn to play guitar, but you join an exclusive group of guitar enthusiasts, who play guitar the easier way.

It's more, however. Guitar-eze is no "cheater's" method - one strum and you'll hear how wonderful it sounds - and as you'll read in other parts of our site, it's been used and utilized for decades, by some of the guitar greats.

So thanks for dropping by, have a look around the site, e-mail any questions or comments, and learn to play guitar the easier way!

9:38 am est

Monday, June 4, 2007

So many guitar-loving inquiries - Easier Guitar
Thanks for the load of inquiries of late; if you have not got yours yet, sorry - there's been tons!
 
Easy Guitar - truly Easy Guitar - that's what you get with Guitar-eze.
 
Absolute beginner -
Frustrated novice -
Parent with guitar-crazy kid -
Singer who want accompaniment -
 
You have arrived at the place to learn guitar the easier way!
 
Enjoy!
 
 
 
 
10:23 am edt

Monday, April 2, 2007

Learn to Play Guitar this Spring


Spring has sprung! What a time to learn to guitar. Now that all your New Year's resolutions are broken - I mean accomplished... there's still that nagging desire in the back of your mind. I want to play guitar. God I wish guitar was easier to learn. What a waste, that guitar sitting there in its case, unplayed.

Well, make a spring resolution to learn to play guitar. If you've had difficulty in the past, or if you think guitar is too complicated to learn, think again. You've found Guitar-eze - the truly easy way to learn to play guitar.

Take a look around the site for all the info you'll need to get playing guitar the easy way.

Take a moment to fill in the Evaluation form...

Send me an e-mail with any questions...

Most of all, have fun!!


6:56 am edt

Monday, March 19, 2007

Hate Pop-ups and Banners...
 
 
That's why you'll never see any trashy stuff like that at Guitar-eze.  So far I have resisted the temptation even for Google ads, which seem to be ubiquitous these days (doubt you got here from one, because I don't run Google adwords).  So, no banner ads, no pop-ups, no cookies... at Guitar-eze.  More and more, Guitar-eze is an information website, moreso than just a multi-page ad for a great guitar system.
 
This blog is updated with information regularly, so you can keep up with it and also check the Guitar-eze blog archive.
 
My hope is that guitar lovers appreciate the lack of intrusive and distracting advertising here at Guitar-eze.
 
Hopefully, you're here because you're searching for a different, but wholly effective way to play guitar - that's what guitar-eze is.  Whether you are an absolute beginner guitarist, a frustrated guitar wannabe, a parent with a child who loves guitar, or anyone else who just loves guitar - hope you enjoy your look around.  There's lots of info here at Guitar-eze, spread out over many pages - so don't be shy - browse them all.  Of couse, you can e-mail me any time with questions.  Or, take a minute to fill out the Evaluation Form - its FREE.  I'll respond with a custom reply for you.
 
Cheers.
 
 
5:55 am est

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.

1:03 pm est

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.
 
 
8:05 pm est

Friday, March 9, 2007

What's Your Beef With Standard Tuning?
 
 
You mean apart from the fact that I got nowhere with it personally? :)  There's no beef at all, actually - there a probably more similarities than differences between standard tuning and open-D.  Heck there's even string duplication (A and D).  Many riffs can be transposed from one to the other (think about it - D,G,B is a major chord, as any standard tuned slide player will tell you).
 
Clearly standard tuning can be mastered - as proven countless times, by the masters!  ....and all the other satrianis you admire at the local music store. 
 
If I have a beef, it's really with myself - why the heck can't I do it - why can't I play guitar beyond the one-finger-on-the-third-fret-of-my-high-E-string-to-create-a-G-chord phase?   Why can I only get the first three notes of that Chuck Berry lick?  THAT's my beef.
 
Occasionally I do switch over to standard tuning, thinking, hey, I'm a pretty good guitar player now, maybe the lightbulb will come on in standard tuning.
 
It never does.
 
So I switch right back to open-D.
 
Which brings me to the theme of today's entry (if in a roundabout way):  Tuning back and forth between standard guitar tuning and open-D is pretty darn easy, for those of you out there who are considering trying open-D (or Guitar-eze specifically), but fear the re-tuning process.
 
Consider that you have string duplication as mentioned above.  So your A and D strings stay the same.  Now, consider that in open-D you have three Ds and two As.  That's internal string duplication - i always start with that middle D that's in standard too, and tune my high D and low D to it.  That makes 4 out of 6 strings tuned fairly easily.  Now the high A string matched to your standard tuning low A.  Which leaves the F# for last - a simple semitone lower for your G string.
 
As for tuning back to standard, well... if you must... :)
 
Remember the A and D string commonality - start from there.  Bring your low D back up to low E (which is just like adjusting drop-D tuning), and you're half way there.  That allows you to adjust your high D string from your low E, and the remaining strings using the old finger on the fifth and fourth fret technique.
 
So there's no beef with standard tuning.. They're actually good friends and neighbors.  Standard tuning is welcome to play in our open-D backyard any time it likes.
 
 
8:30 am est

Monday, March 5, 2007

Lots and Lots of Inquiries During the Guitar-eze Promotion
...which ended February 28th - thanks for all the interest!


In the last few days I have begun compiling the "guts" of supplemental lessons to compliment what is already in Guitar-eze - the book and CD.

Will let you know when the first sets are available...


8:56 am est

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Working on a Exciting New Additions to Guitar-eze!


Due to increasing demand, we are getting together something really big - lesson packs!

You asked and asked - now you shall receive - individual lessons in Guitar-eze - designed to compliment the already information-packed Guitar-eze Method and Chord Books! For those of you looking for that additional edge, coming soon, will be a myriad of lessons and lesson packs to choose from. Additionally, we will be launching:

Kid-tar-eze!

Yep, Guitar-eze lessons and lesson packs specifically geared toward the younger set (as if it wasn't easy enough already!).

Look forward to these exciting new products soon, but in the meantime, as we develop them - we would love your input. Let me know what you would like to see in your customized Guitar-eze lesson!

10:53 am est

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