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Benefits of Short Focused Practice as Compared to Not Having a Practice Routine at All

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  When  learning how to play a guitar , a defined form of practice is always better and preferable to an unstructured routine at all. A structured routine always enables a person to easily achieve their goals. The following are the benefits of having a planned short period of guitar planning rather than having none at all. Setting goals and evaluation of success levels. A planned guitar practice will give you a sense of responsibility for your actions. For instance, you could have planned to learn in a month. After two weeks of practice, the sense of time will enlighten you on your progress and define whether you should play more or lower your pace. When you do not have any goals set at all, anything goes by. You do not have a clear way of how things should get done and you, therefore, end up achieving so little that is if at all you will achieve anything. 2. Choice of a musical path When you have a focused form of practice you can easily identify the kind of music you want to...

Questions your teacher should be able to answer without hesitation.

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  What style of guitar do you teach? The styles I teach are all closely related.  I teach country, blues, classic rock, 80’s shredding rock, new rock, alternative rock and pop. Although I can play some heavy metal, jazz and other styles but I don’t teach them as they are not my speciality. Notice that I don’t teach all styles? You should beware of any music teacher that says he or she teaches “all styles”. It’s very hard to teach all styles and almost impossible to be great at teaching all of them. How much experience do you have? I started teaching when I was 18 or 19. I admit I wasn’t a very good teacher back then compared to now.  Remember all the bad points I made about an average teacher?  That was me and I learned from experience a long time ago. Now in my 40’s I have learned quite a bit over the years about different teaching methods and how I can get students to excel quicker by training them how to practice efficiently and what to practice. Teachers that don...

Edmonton Guitar Lessons for the aspiring musician

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Guitar Lesson Options Do you offer in my home guitar lessons? Yes, I offer in your  home guitar lessons  in and around the Edmonton Area. Please check the radius of the area in this map that is covered under in-home guitar lessons. The guitar lessons in your home are totally customizable. One on one Group Lesson (up to 3) Or 2 lessons split at 30 minutes each if you have 2 students. Do you offer group lessons? Yes, I offer  group guitar lessons  to groups of 4 students or more. I also offer lessons to schools and communities in the Edmonton area. Such programs have a commitment of only 4 weeks with an open option to continue further. Do you have a studio for lessons? Yes, I do in my studio guitar lessons in North East Edmonton just off Yellowhead and Hermitage road. Students come for their lessons from all around the greater Edmonton area including Sherwood Park, Spruce Grove, St. Albert, and Fort Saskatchewan. Our students claim th...