How To Analyze, Memorize And Remember Music On The Guitar

What you are about to learn are the same secrets that Aaron Shearer unveiled to me when I was one of his students at Peabody Conservatory of Music.They are the most powerful studying techniques that exist and if you use them persistently they could change your guitar playing forever! What you are going to find out, quite basically stated is "How To Learn"! Consider this, when a person has given you guitar tabs or guitar tablatures to learn, did these folks at any time inform you "how" to learn it? Probably not. Most folks learn by rote repetition which is repeating something over and over again till it finally gets beaten into their heads! Doing so is very time consuming and typically falls apart if the performer gets nervous. The "mental imagery / visualization" techniques you are about to find out are very time efficient due to the fact that you will be using the mind to its' fullest extent. Remember, the fingers only do what the brain directs them to do. Clear things up in the mind and you will be able to halt making mistakes when you play guitar! The "mental imagery / visualization" process you will use includes 5 steps. All 5 of these steps must be used for every single measure of the piece of music before going on to the next measure.The initial 4 steps have to be accomplished with the guitar in its' case. Doing so is crucial! Keep your guitar in its' case for the initial 4 steps!

Step #1 - Count and clap the rhythmic structure of the measure. For example in 4/4 time you would count quarter notes as 1-2-3-4. eighth notes as 1& 2& 3& 4& , sixteenth notes as 1a&ah, 2a&ah, 3a&ah, 4a&ah. and so on. You would clap the side of your leg with your right hand every time you would strike a string or group of strings. Doing so should let you figure out and hear the rhythmic structure of the measure - which is the most basic component of music.

Step #2 - Ascertain the left hand fingering for the measure. Employing the palm of the left hand as the fretboard, actually press down the finger or fingers you will use to play the notes and chords in the measure while at the same time imagining or viewing the strings and the guitar frets in your mind's eye as if you had been physically performing it.

Step #3 - Figure out the right hand fingering for the measure. If playing with a pick, you would have to determine whether you are picking up or down for each note. If playing fingerstyle you would have to decide which fingering sequences you would use. At this point the right hand fingers or your pick would in fact be picking the air while in your mind's eye you are imagining or seeing the string or strings which you are striking.

Step #4 - Do steps 2 and 3 at the same time, seriously striving to see the strings and frets in the mind's eye as you are playing them in the air, while at the same time counting out loud.

Step #5 - Take your guitar from the case and actually play the measure you have been working on. If you can play it 3 times in a row with no mistakes, then you understand and know that measure. Now it is possible to proceed to the following measure and use the same 5 step course of action for it. Right after you have completed the new measure, be sure to actually play the new measure with the old measure. By doing this you are building the piece of music by attaching every measure to the one just before it - much like you would construct a chain by attaching every new link to the one before it.This "mental imagery visualization" process woks so well because it allows you to focus clearly on each and every hand separately. If you fully grasp the fingerings for every hand separately, pairing them with each other isn't that hard. The problem for us guitarists has often been trying to do too many things at once!

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