Guitar Lessons in Oklahoma City. If you live in the Oklahoma City area, then motivating and enjoyable guitar lessons are for you. I can also travel outside the Oklahoma City area for a reasonable distance-based fee. What are the up-front honest top six things to know about guitar lessons and learning the guitar?
1. Learn to practice. The guitar is a stringed instrument and it takes a real effort to press the strings down. I like to let everyone know this up-front so they know what to expect and can set time aside to practice. I can explain the motivating secrets of getting in more practice time.
2. Learn twenty basic guitar chords. It's important through guitar lessons to build up a collection of basic guitar chords that you know and memorize. It's also important to begin learning to identify the fretboard and strings with a cool naming and numbering system. This prepares you to learn songs and improvise.
3. Learn a slower popular song that you are familiar with. You can bring along any CD or song and we can analyze the chords, melody, bassline, structure, and composition of the song.
4. Learn how to create any chord from the alphabet, language and building blocks of music. With two college degrees and over 15 years' stage and playing experience I can help you learn how to express music theory in creative and intriguing ways.
5. Learn how to improvise. It's important to learn scales and a map of the fretboard. Here is a good analogy: suppose a friend wants you to visit Dallas and you've never been there before. Would it be nice if they say "I live in a blue house hope you find it," or would you rather have a MAP of the city and an address and an understanding of the rhyme and reason of the layout of the city?
6. Learn how to view music theory as pictures and photos. Just as you would recognize family photos of aunts, uncles, grandparents, brothers and sisters, you can first picture what you're going to play, then it's ten times easier to play songs.
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There are three basic ways of learning. It's important to practice all three during the week. Sometimes you're in the mood to play along with a song, sometimes you're in the mood to create a song.
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1. Learn by example. Play along with a favorite song or CD. Since it's an exact studio recording, it's almost like being in the studio with the original musicians.
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2. Learn music theory. It's important to study documentation on paper just like studying for school or an exam. The word docu-mentation means "To put on paper what you know." Viewing chords, scales, and fretboard maps like a photo helps you visualize the guitar as you play.
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3. Learn by creativity. As you build a collection of chords and music theory, you can assemble songs and combinations of chords or a melody to sing along with.
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If you have questions related to creating a demo CD, artwork, and marketing, I have produced professional CDs and I can help.
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We can analyze at half-speed any melody or solo that you are interested in learning.
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For beginner guitar students, I can help you learn basic chords while gaining a better strength to press down the strings.
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For intermediate guitar students, I can help you learn introductory music theory which makes it much more interesting to learn chords and improvise.
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For advanced guitar students, I can help you learn technical rehearsal routines and categories of advanced study such as scales in all keys, pentatonic maps in all keys, traditional scales, intervals, chromatic studies, string skipping, arpeggios, improvising theory and methods and more including stage experience.
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