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Structure
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Each
lesson is tailored to the individual student. Everyone is different not
only with regard to the goals they are trying to achieve, but also in
the way they respond to different teaching techniques.
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Sarah
constantly strives to find the best way forward for each student.
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Below
you will find a very basic description of how the lessons are structured.
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A
typical lesson will be split into the following three main areas
of playing guitar.
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| To
play guitar you need a certain amount of coordination, timing and
dexterity. To regularly spend a small amount of time practicing manoeuvres
that will help in these areas will make learning to play the guitar
not only easier and far less frustrating, but will also make you a
better player. You will find yourself attempting your favourite song
with ease, rather than struggling and making it sound bad because
it is technically too difficult or too fast for you. |
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technical exercises are done at the beginning of the lesson for two
reasons. 1. They will help you to warm up the tendons in your wrist
and fingers without straining them, and 2. It gets them out the way,
leaving the rest of the lesson free for the more entertaining things.
Learning an instrument should be fun, not boring. Very little progress
would be made if you didn't enjoy learning and many would give up.
Therefore only a minimal amount of time will be spent on technical
exercises, especially if time at home has been spent on these and
not just in the lessons! |
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If
you are TECHNICALLY BRILLIANT on guitar - you should be able to
play ANYTHING.
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Right? |
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| Technique
Training |
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is simply learning all the different techniques required to play guitar.
You will work your way through all the different techniques such as
chord work, different strumming patterns, using distortion, power
chords, arpeggios, muting, soloing and improvisation, band skills,
using pedals etc....... Those are just a few! |
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will find it rewarding everytime you learn a new technique. |
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| Included
in this section is the dreaded THEORY work. Most people find theory
fills them with dread and the fear of boredom. Again this depends
on how it is approached. If you can see how useful it will be to your
guitar playing and how much it will help to make life easier you will
soon find yourself wanting to know more. |
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of the basic theory can be covered in only a few lessons leaving all
the other lessons free for the practical side.) |
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| Songs |
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is the fun part, where you get to put all your knowledge into practice
and make the sounds that motivated you to start learning guitar in
the first place. Everyone who plays guitar has a desire to play songs,
not scales and technical exercises (whether it be their own composition
or their favourite band's songs). But to only play songs and not cover
the theory and techniques behind them would be learning guitar parrot
fashion. If you understand the technique used in the song, you will
be able to play any song that uses that same technique, making you
a good all round musician, that can play far more than just the songs
Sarah teaches you within your lessons. It will set you up for life. |
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will usually learn songs that put the technique you are currently
working on into practice. That way you will soon learn where everything
is coming from and the whole picture will start to make sense and
come together much as a jigsaw puzzle does. |
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Alot
of that may sound daunting to a beginner or an uninitiated parent,
or may not be enough detail for the more advanced student.
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There
is no substitute to talking to the tutor personally!
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Tel
Sarah on .01276 .503
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Copyright
© 2003 Sarah Goodall. All rights reserved.
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