Download or read book The Inner Game of Fingerstyle Guitar written by Adam Rafferty and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to learn proven strategies that will help you sharpen your fingerstyle-guitar skills, practice more effectively, and silence the inner critic that can sabotage your performances? Playing the guitar requires a blend of intuition, intellect, and emotion, and the path to excellence can be a confusing one. In The Inner Game of Fingerstyle Guitar, master guitarist and worldwide performer Adam Rafferty delivers the information you need to: Get rid of stage fright and perform well in any situation Develop your own "voice" and touch on the instrument Find new performance opportunities Get out of a "guitar rut" Develop an effective practice routine Visualize and achieve your musical goals The strategies, real-life stories, and advice in this friendly, encouraging book will help you achieve true excellence in your guitar playing, as well as in life. Adam Rafferty plays onstage for thousands of people annually, performing at guitar festivals and concerts in over two-dozen countries. His YouTube guitar videos have gathered over twenty-million views. Jazziz Magazine hailed his solo-guitar CD "I Remember Michael" as one of its top-ten picks for 2011. Adam's twenty-year apprenticeship with jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mike Longo (of Dizzy Gillespie fame) brought him priceless musical knowledge, which Adam passes onto the reader in this, his first published book.

Download or read book Summary of Adam Rafferty s The Inner Game of Fingerstyle Guitar written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-30T22:59:00Z with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 When you experience musical perfection, you are allowing a natural behavior of divine physics to play out through you. Perfection comes through you naturally, and you don’t feel like the doer of it. It feels awesome, and you should strive to experience this instinctual perfection more and more as you make music. #2 Your musical truth is defined by whether or not you feel right while playing music, and whether or not it feels like yes to you. If you feel right and are allowing the music to unfold, then the music you are playing is true.

Download or read book Zen Guitar written by Philip Toshio Sudo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Eastern wisdom and applies it to music and performance. Each of us carries a song inside us, the song that makes us human. Zen Guitar provides the key to unlocking this song—a series of life lessons presented through the metaphor of music. Philip Sudo offers his own experiences with music to enable us to rediscover the harmony in each of our lives and open ourselves to Zen awareness uniquely suited to the Western Mind. Through fifty-eight lessons that provide focus and a guide, the reader is led through to Zen awareness. This harmony is further illuminated through quotes from sources ranging from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Miles Davis. From those who have never strummed a guitar to the more experienced, Zen Guitar shows how the path of music offers fulfillment in all aspects of life—a winning idea and an instant classic.

Download or read book Tommy Emmanuel s Fingerstyle Guitar Milestones written by Tommy Emmanuel and published by WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fingerstyle Guitar Milestones, Tommy breaks down his guitar technique and teaches it to you, pick by pick! It is perfect for anyone who wants to develop thumb and finger independence for ultimate fingerstyle guitar technique.

Download or read book The Inner Game of Music written by Barry Green and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 1986-02-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests techniques for overcoming self-consciousness and improving musical performances, shares a variety of exercises, and includes advice on improving one's listening skills.

Download or read book The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar written by Jamey Andreas and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 Silver Award Winner for Best Instructional Materials by Acoustic Guitar Magazine.Correct Practice is what all good players do, whether they know they are doing it or not! That's how they get to be good players. Whether you are a beginner or a player with the usual problems, here is your Foundation book, "The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar!"- for ALL styles and ALL levels. "The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar" is composed of three elements:Understandings: Concepts which you must understand in order to begin to practice effectivelyTools: Practice Approaches to be used to solve problems in playing. These approaches are based on certain key Understandings, such as Muscle Memory and Sympathetic Tension, as well as Attention and Awareness.Exercises: Specific routines to be done during practice, that will build technique, (playing ability) in a step by step fashion, each step building on the previous one, and preparing for the next.

Download or read book Complete Fingerstyle Guitar Book written by Stefan Grossman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text covers the spectrum of fingerpicking technique and styles. Performance and stylistic notes, fingerstyle guitar solos and a listening guide are presented for each section of the book. Sections include: Folk Songs; Gospel Songs; Country Blues; RagtimeBlues; Rags and Dances; Appalachian Fiddle Tunes; Celtic Airs; Jigs and Reels; Classic Rags; Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar & Fingerstyle Guitar Duets. All solos are in notation and tablature and are written by noted fingerpicking guitarists Stefan Grossman, Elizabeth Cotten, DeanSires, Ton VanBergeyk, David Laibman, Rev. Gary Davis, Duck Baker, Seth Austen, Steve Tilston, John Morris, Sid Percy, Tom O'Farrell, JimMcLennan, Leo Wijnkamp Jr., Lasse Johansson and Claes Palmqvist.

Download or read book The acoustic guitar fingerstyle method written by David Hamburger and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (String Letter Publishing). Whether you're a first-time fingerstylist who's studying with a teacher or on your own, The Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Method by David Hamburger gives you the detailed, comprehensive instruction you need to improve your skills. This book introduces you to the two most essential fingerstyle approaches for playing American roots music: Travis picking and the steady-bass style. In each lesson, you'll learn new techniques, concepts, and chord voicings along with ways to practice and get them under your fingers. Then you can use what you just learned to play a classic song or solo break from the blues, ragtime, folk, country, and ragtime traditions. 18 In-Depth Lessons, including: Travis Picking Basics, Switching Chords, Eighth Notes and Syncopation, Picking Pattern Fills, Double Stops, and much more. 15 songs to play, including: John Henry * Delia * St. James Infirmary * Nobody's Fault but Mine * Houston Blues * Alberta * and more. Each book includes access to recordings of demonstration tracks of all the exercises and songs. Audio is accessed online using the unique code in each book.

Download or read book Guitar Genius written by Kim Tomsic and published by Chronicle Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how Les Paul created the world's first solid- body electric guitar, countless other inventions that changed modern music, and one truly epic career in rock and roll. How to make a microphone? A broomstick, a cinderblock, a telephone, a radio. How to make an electric guitar? A record player's arm, a speaker, some tape. How to make a legendary inventor? A few tools, a lot of curiosity, and an endless faith in what is possible. Featuring richly detailed, dynamic illustrations by Brett Helquist, this unforgettable biography will resonate with inventive readers young and old.

Download or read book John Fahey Guitar Anthology written by John Fahey and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Recorded Versions). 18 songs in note-for-note transcriptions with tab from the man who was considered the grandfather of instrumental acoustic fingerstyle guitar. Includes: America * Brenda's Blues * Desperate Man Blues * In Christ There Is No East or West * John Henry * Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home * Some Summer Day * Steamboat Gwine 'Round De Bend * Tell Her to Come Back Home * When the Springtime Comes Again * and more. Includes a biography and discography.

Download or read book Best Practice written by Judy Minot and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Practice is written for non-professional musicians who play "traditional" music of any style on any instrument. Technology and ease of travel may make these regional styles easier to learn about and hear, but many players struggle to maintain commitment and enthusiasm for practicing, given the pressures of daily life. These musicians need a different kind of advice on practicing and playing. Why? Because they're usually adults, playing primarily for enjoyment, and they're often self-taught. Many have expressed that, while they truly want to improve, they don't know whether their efforts are efficient, or even effective. They may wonder: Am I spending my practice time well? Am I working on the things that will help me achieve what I want? How much time should I spend practicing and how often should I practice? Should I focus on notes, ornaments, speed, intonation? How much music theory do I really need to know? What should my goals be for each day, each week, or longer?The book incorporates ideas for practice techniques, and also suggestions for developing mental and physical habits that support artistic progress and growth. The author interweaves concepts from a lifetime as a musician, over 20 years' training and teaching aikido, plus yoga, meditation, and even a career in television and marketing.Traditional, or "trad" music styles include old time, Celtic, Cajun, Swedish, contra, Québecois, blues, Métis, and others, but much of the information in the book could apply to any musician, singers, and even other types of artists. There are 197 short, self-contained chapters. Each offers a single concept or idea. You can read one whenever you sit down to practice or play. Best Practice incorporates the author's experience as a musician, a martial artist, a yoga teacher, and even as a broadcast video editor and producer. There are learnings from neuroscience, psychology, and Buddhist meditation. This is a book you'll want to keep near your practice space, to dip into repeatedly for inspiration.

Download or read book Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen written by David Boucher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The authors argue that both Dylan and Cohen shared early aspirations that mirrored the Beat Generation. They sought to achieve the fame of Dylan Thomas, who proved a bohemian poet could thrive outside the academy, and to live his life of unconditional social irresponsibility. While Dylan's and Cohen's fame fluctuated over the decades, it was sustained by self-consciously adopted personas used to distance themselves from their public selves. This separation of self requires an exploration of the artists' relation to religion as an avenue to find and preserve inner identity. The relationship between their lyrics and poetry is explored in the context of Federico García Lorca's concept of the poetry of inspiration and the emotional depths of 'duende.' Such ideas draw upon the dislocation of the mind and the liberation of the senses that so struck Dylan and Cohen when they first read the poetry and letters of Arthur Rimbaud and Lorca. The authors show that performance and the poetry are integral, and the 'duende,' or passion, of the delivery, is inseparable from the lyric or poetry, and common to Dylan, Cohen and the Beat Generation.

Download or read book Complete Fingerstyle Guitar Method Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar written by Lou Manzi and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've been inspired to begin playing fingerstyle guitar or are an experienced player wanting to enhance your knowledge, this book is the perfect place to start. Using standard music notation and TAB, the examples guide you through basic chord theory, modes, drop-D tuning, alternating bass and more.

Download or read book The Better DigiTech JamMan Solo XT Manual written by Rich Menga and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A better version of the manual for the DigiTech JamMan Solo XT looper. This book makes the complicated JamMan easy-to-use, even if you have never used a looper before. The JamMan is a great looper. It may be complicated, but after reading this book, you'll be able to use it with ease.

Download or read book 120 Studies for Right Hand Development written by Mauro Giuliani and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These studies constitute an irreplaceable part of the standard study material for classical guitar. They are designed to aid in maximum development of right-hand technique.

Download or read book Visual Guitar Theory written by Chad Johnson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Educational). Many guitarists spend years, or entire lives, feeling their way around the guitar neck in the dark. But it doesn't have to be that way! Experiencing the freedom that comes with a little theoretical knowledge is not as difficult as it may seem. With Visual Guitar Theory , you'll quickly "connect the dots" by seeing and understanding the shapes and patterns that make music work, with over 500 full-color fretboard diagrams, detailed lessons, quizzes, and an organized, progressive teaching approach. Topics covered include: intervals; building triads; transposing chord shapes; inversions; building scales; and much more.

Download or read book Guitar Chords Wheel written by Scott Gentry and published by Thunder Bay Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-use visual guide includes every chord you can imagine! An essential tool in any guitarist’s case, this portable book helps you learn positions for each finger on the fretboard and offers chord substitutions for songwriting. The key references are also a great way to come up with a base for solos! This book contains every permutation of each chord, including alternate voicings and inversions. So spin the wheel and watch your guitar playing improve!