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Closing Thought – Playing With Other Musicians
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with other musicians. If you are playing with otherest of your life. Playing with other musicians is a key to actually take the material you’ve learnedr musicians you will stick with it and be a guitar out of your player for the
practice room and incorporate it into a real playinroom, but they are too embarrassed or intimidated tg situation. Lots of folks are great players in tho play with people. Don’t believe the lie your mindeir practice tells you
that you’re not good enough to play in front of peoyour church or find a jam-session in your area. Siple. Go out and play with some friends or a band. t down and strum a few chords with your neighbor on Play for a
key to your continued success. Otherwise you and ySunday afternoon or break out the guitar at the famour music will never reach beyond your four walls. ily get-together over the holidays. Playing with pe See you next time.ople is the
Tips for Successful Learning
- Work Out the Three Note on a String Patterns. In order to make real progress, play through
these forms over and over again until the motor skiwill learn the physical patterns involved with each form. As you practice, think through the notes ofll muscle memory is developed. Through repetition each scale as your fingers
you play them. This will reinforce the fretboard uSay the names of the notes as you play through themnderstanding of where each note is in relationship slowly. Then speed up the tempo and try to play tto the others. he scale
ascending with hammer-ons and descending with pull-offs. - Practice the Scales Starting at Different Points. The goal of these scales is to give you the tools
you need to solo effectively. Once the basic formsdifferent points of the scale and playing for a few notes then back down. Try playing the scale in th are learned, practice playing through the notes stirds (1-3, 2-4, 3-arting at
5 etc.) ascending and descending. All of these litcollection of notes that can be played in a variety of combinations rather than a sequence of notes thtle exercises are designed to get you to see the scale as a at is only
played ascending & descending. - Put Your Brain Into the Game by Learning to Spell Ssolos based solely on familiar finger patterns and by ear or “hearing” where to place the next note. eventh Chords. Most players play Now, you are
getting a third element to approach a solo from – Chelp you. Do them over and over again. Spell chorhord Knowledge. Doing the chord spelling exercises ds in your head as you go throughout your day or waonce won’t it in traffic.
When you are stopped at a traffic light, spell a febut, with repetition, the answers will come faster w seventh chords. At first they will take a great and faster. When you get to the point where you sedeal of mental effort e an Em7 and
your mind immediately sees E – G – B – D without having to figure it out then you know you have arrived. - You can play all of the Three Note on a String Scales in every key over the full
range of the instrument. Don’t worry about speed. Get the finger patterns first. - You have completed all of the seventh chord worksheets in the lesson book and
in the bonus resources.