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OK, here is a bit more on the Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar“. As I mentioned in my guitar chair blog entry… this is some intense guitar learning instruction. It isn’t for the faint of heart.

This course starts off with coaching you on how to sit with your guitar, and how to hold your guitar. After that, ” Guitar Principles” you get into the right hand string shifting excercise, where you just work on touching the six strings.

In other words, you are going to spend a lot of time with this course before you even make the first sound with your guitar. The key point is that you are becoming something of a guitar athlete… training your muscles to make the correct movements. And the principles course emphasizes that you REALLY have to focus as you are doing these very simple excercises. That is how you train your muscles. The theory is that later on, when you get around to actually playing your guitar, you will have trained your body in the exact way it needs to move.

That means that you will be able to take those basic movements and incorporate them in your playing… at a much faster and smoother pace.

So far, I haven’t even gotten into the left hand. This is all right hand stuff. I think it will get a little more interesting when I start putting the two hands together. But right now, it is all right hand. Then it will be all left hand. Then you put them together.

Oh, and by the way… you might be wondering about that guitar chair. It is all about having the correct posture. So I had to find a chair that supported that correct posture and position for playing my guitar.

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