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POPSWhat Does It Take to Become a Good Musician?
Written from the perspective of a guitarist but applicable to all. I know that half of what musicians become, is because of the time they spend with a guitar in their hands, in their mind. It is almost the same as really practicing, imagining the guitar in your hands, playing this and that. The older I become, the more I realize it. I have been playing long enough that there is very little difference between practicing and visualizing and I have come to the conclusion, that this time visualizing, is a major part of the equation. That is why love is the key. If you didn't love the guitar, how could you think about it all the time? In the book, "This is your Brain on Music," Daniel J. Levitin comes to the conclusion that to be good it takes about ten-thousand hours on your instrument (that equals about 3 hours a day for 10 years). But I will add that a lot of these hours can and have to be knocked off in your head. I'm not that sure that your brain knows the difference.
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POPSThe Chord Scale This is also helpful in putting together simple progressions, or even whole songs.
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POPSKoyunbaba - Presto Written by Carlos Domeniconi, an Italian born composer currently living in Germany; although this piece is Turkish in influence. Another facet of this composition is that the guitar is tuned to an open tuning, C#minor, which isn't very common in classical guitar.
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POPSClassical Guitarist Ernesto Tamayo The links in the clip quit working. Go to source linked above or in comments to hear audio. He performs works by Barrios (nice tremolo technique) and an original composition.
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POPSClassical Guitarists: Aaron Brock & Elliot Frank Aaron Brock died at the age of 32 shortly after this interview/performance of a rare undiagnosed heart ailment. Such a shame. Here he tunes his guitar to an open tuning. The two movements he plays start out very somber and slow increasing to a dramatically intense flurry of right-hand picking and left-hand slurs (hammer-ons/pull-offs), and finally decelerating back to the original motif.
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