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Learn Acoustic Guitar The Right Way, Right Now And Save Yourself Years Of Wasted Time And Endless Frustration.
So you want to learn how to play guitar, but you don't want it to take forever. You want to know how the great acoustic guitarists play (and create) such incredible music, but you don't want to be constantly frustrated every time you pick up your guitar to play. You are willing to put in the time & effort to learn guitar the right way, but only if you are not going to be wasting your time on boring exercises or practicing things that don't work.
You are smart enough to know that the easiest, fastest & best way to learn how to play and master the acoustic guitar is to learn from an experienced guitar teacher with a winning track record of teaching people like you to become excellent musicians, but you are also smart enough to know the difference between people who simply call themselves experts and someone who actually is one.
If I've correctly described what's been on your mind lately about learning to become an awesome acoustic guitar player, then you're in the right place.
Here's what you need to know about learning to play acoustic guitar the right way…
First, you need to know what's NOT true:
There are a lot of myths, fallacies and fairy tales out there about what it really takes to learn and become a great acoustic guitar player. For example:
- You should learn from as many different sources as possible.
- You should seek to always learn something new.
- You should master what you learn before moving on to something else.
- You should teach yourself in order to save money.
- You should take private in person acoustic guitar lessons to learn best.
- You can learn from any guitar teacher, they all teach the same basic things.
- You need to have natural talent in order to become a great guitar player.
- You need to practice hours and hours per day to learn how to play acoustic guitar well.
Here's the truth about these myths:
- Learning from as many different sources as possible: On the surface it may sound good to learn from many sources. However, in reality it's usually not. Why? Because your goal is not to simply acquire information, it is to become an excellent acoustic guitar player. To best do that, you need not only the tools but also a process to get there. When you take little bits and pieces from many different sources, you lack a proven process to achieve what you want to achieve. Therefore, it's far better to rely on one great source of information, lessons, training and process than to randomly collect information from lots of different sources.
- Always seek to learn something new: Believing in this myth can be dangerous to your development as a guitar player. Think about it, if all you needed to do in order to become a great acoustic guitar player was to learn something new each day, then all I would need to do to is create a book and sell it to you. We both know that mastering the guitar does not work that way. What does work is being taught what and how to do things and then give you the tools and the process to achieve your guitar mastery.
- Master what you learn before moving on to something else:Sometimes this is true, but other times this advice can really hurt your guitar playing progress. There are some things you should learn in a linear way and you need to master those things before moving onto the next step in a linear process. However, there are more things that absolutely should not be mastered before moving on to the next step. Why? Because a part of mastering the acoustic guitar is being able to take several things you are working on and tie them all together right now - even before you have mastered any of them. Yes, I realize this may sound counter-intuitive, but I can tell you as a world class guitarist and highly successful guitar teacher that this is a foundational core concept in learning and mastering the guitar (electric or acoustic).
- Teach yourself in order to save money: You need to ask yourself the following question, "Am I serious about learning how to play acoustic guitar or am I just screwing around here with this guitar?" If you're just screwing around, not serious at all and don't really care about ever playing guitar well, then sure you can do that all by yourself without investing anything into it. But you will become frustrated a lot and it will take a very long time to learn what and how to do things and in some cases you may never learn them even over a lifetime of trying…. Or you can get serious, save yourself years of frustration & slow progress and learn to finally become that guitarist you want to become.
- Take acoustic guitar lessons from a local teacher: Almost all local guitar teachers (in any part of the world) have absolutely zero education, training nor certification on how to teach guitar. Yes, you will find some that are experienced, but in experienced in what? Teaching things wrong year after year? That's not what you want to pay for. If typical local guitar teachers were so good, the average guitar student would be a lot better than they are. Most students do not develop into excellent players because their local teachers are commonly not excellent and trained teachers. It's that simple.
- You can learn from any guitar teacher, they all teach the same basic things: Not all guitar teachers are the same. There are many different methods (and lack of methods) out there. What the very best guitar teachers know that other teachers do not is that it's not just what you teach, but it's also about how you teach, the process of teaching and the specific order in which things are taught, learned and trained that makes the biggest impact on how fast (or slow) you will learn to play guitar well.
- You need to have natural talent in order to become a great guitar player: This is the biggest and most common myth of them all. No, you don't need to be born with special DNA to learn and master the guitar. Most of the great acoustic guitar players will be the first to tell you that they possessed no more natural talent than anyone else when they were learning to play acoustic guitar. Anyone can learn to play and to play at a very advanced level… anyone.
- You need to practice hours and hours per day to learn how to play acoustic guitar well: Yes, you need to practice your guitar. No, you absolutely do not need to spend a huge amount of time each day doing so. What you do need are the following things: the right person to guide you, an effective and efficient guitar practice routine and training on exactly how to practice.
Hi, I'm Simon Candy. I've been teaching acoustic guitar for a very long time. I have the knowledge, training and expertise to transform the common person into an excellent guitar player. I'm dedicated, passionate and committed to doing the same for you. That's why I've created this website and all the lessons and tools for you to get started and complete your incredible, fulfilling and successful journey to becoming the awesome acoustic guitar player you want and will become.
The Ultimate Fingerpicking Guitar Course
This course is for you if:
• You’ve never fingerpicked guitar before but would love to be able to
• You have fingerpicked before but feel stuck and don’t know how to move forward
• You are an intermediate or advanced fingerpicker and want to take your skills to a pro level
Have you ever watched someone fingerpick guitar and wondered how they make it look so easy and effortless?
How is it some people know exactly what to do, making incredible progress with their fingerpicking in little time, yet you feel stuck in a rut with absolutely no idea how to get out of it?
Is fingerpicking something only some people can do while the rest of us look on in envy, trying our hearts out, but to no avail?
Fortunately the answer to that question is no. Almost anyone can learn how to fingerpick guitar.
The difference is in ongoing, hand holding, step by step instruction, training, and mentoring, from someone who has the experience to know what they are doing in helping you become the great fingerpicking guitar player you long to be.
It really is that simple.
Left up to your own devices, with an at best “trial and error” approach, you will likely struggle to fingerpick guitar, or at the very least take a very very long time to figure it all out on your own.
In The Ultimate Fingerpicking Guitar Course you will:
• Learn all the key concepts, methods, strategies and techniques needed for fingerpicking so you’ll never have to put your guitar down in frustration again thinking “How the hell do I do this!”
• Discover the exact order in which to do things, avoiding the all too common mistakes most people make when learning to fingerpick guitar, saving you precious time and frustration
• Have your hand held EVERY step of the way taking you from wherever you are at right now with you fingerpicking, to where you would love to be, enjoying EVERY step of the process along the way
Take the action today that your future self will forever be thanking you for by learning how to fingerpick guitar
Create Unplugged Versions Of Any Song On Your Acoustic Guitar
Ever hear an unplugged acoustic version of a song that made your jaw drop to the floor in amazement and awe of the person playing it?
Have you tried doing this yourself and failed miserably, realising it takes a lot more than simply taking a song and copying it note for note, chord for chord onto your acoustic guitar?
The problem is, if you take this all too common "cut and paste" approach when creating an acoustic version of an electric guitar song, you end up with a dull, boring, and lifeless rendition as your acoustic arrange
People LOVE to hear a tune stripped back to its bare bones and re-created on an acoustic guitar, bringing a uniqueness to it that only an acoustic guitar can provide.
Learn exactly how to go about creating awesome sounding unplugged acoustic versions of songs on your guitar.
You will be taken through many cool, unique, and innovative techniques and approaches that will not only have you creating your own awesome acoustic arrangements of songs, but also make you a much better guitar player in the process!
Free eBook With Video: 10 Easy Melodic Fingerpicking Patterns You Can Learn In 10 Minutes Or Less
NEW! Do you struggle to make the fingerpicking patterns you learn on guitar sound like music?
I know how you feel.
I would learn lots of fingerpicking patterns, but no matter how many I got down, they would all sound the same and anything like the music I was wanting to hear.
I eventually discovered that learning patterns alone was not enough. It is what you do with the patterns that counts.
In other words, how you APPLY them to create music.
In this eBook (with video examples), you learn 10 simple fingerpicking patterns with equally simple ways of applying them to create great sounding music!
And the best thing?
No single pattern will take you longer than 10 minutes to learn.
How Does A C Note Sound? (A Trick Question)
BRAND NEW: Much has been said about the value of learning the note names on guitar.
And this is true, however, learning the note names is just the beginning. What lies beyond simply knowing the note names is the note function.
But what does this mean?
It means that knowing for example that the first fretted note on the second string of your guitar is a C note does not tell you anything about how this note sounds. It simply tells you that it is a C note.
But how does a C note sound?
In other words, how does this note function?
Well, a C note will sound however you want it to sound, it all comes down to the context in which you use it.
• Example 1:
Pick up your guitar and form a C major open chord.
Strum the chord and while the chord is ringing through, pluck the C note (1st fret/2nd string) a few times. The C note is in the chord so this is easy to do while keeping the shape formed in your fingers.
How does it sound?
Don’t worry if you don’t have an answer.
• Example 2:
Next, form an Am open chord and do the same thing.
Strum the chord and pluck the C note (1st fret/2nd string) which is also part of this chord.
How does it sound?
If you still don’t know, this is completely fine, however, you should be able to hear that the very same note now sounds different to how it sounded against the C chord.
• Example 3:
Let’s go one more time. Form an F chord, which also has this C note in it, and strum the chord, plucking the C note several times as the chord rings through. The C note will once again sound different. This is because the C note, and any note for that matter, sounds many different ways depending on the context in which they are being played.
As a guitarist, you will gain much more control over your playing if you can learn the function of the notes, not just the name of the notes.
In this video, I sit down with Guitar Playing Breakthrough Specialist Tom Hess to discuss and demonstrate note names versus note functions. If any of this is confusing, don’t fret, Tom Hess has a knack for explaining this very thing that makes it easy for anyone to understand even if you don’t have a music theory bone in your body.
Watch the video below to learn more:
Discover a simple way to make your fingerpicking sound more musical on guitar
When it comes to guitar playing, technique is a means to an end not an end in itself. It’s purpose is to serve your musical creativity.
How much technique you need depends on what you want to be able to do musically on your instrument.
When fingerpicking guitar, of course you need technique. However developing a whole lot of technique with little creative application is totally wasted technique, and a waste of your precious time.
Join me in this video masterclass and I will show you how to take simple fingerpicking techniques and convert them into music in very unique, innovative, and creative ways.
In part 2 of this video masterclass, we are going to pick up where we left off learning more ways to convert an average sounding chord progression into great sounding music.
Avoid becoming one of those players that spends large amounts of time building solid fingerpicking technique only to realise they have no way of applying it to create actual music.
Ok, maybe you can do some basic things that sound kind of ok, but what about the really cool stuff?
What about the kind of fingerpicking music you hear the greats play?
Join me in Part 2 of this video masterclass on creatively fingerpicking your guitar and I will continue to train you in applying simple fingerpicking skills and techniques to create beautiful and unique sounding music
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