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Listening Up!

Al Joseph
BeginnerAny styleTheory 6 lessons29m

Hello Folks, This month I want to go a different route. Let's take a minute and think about our musical journey and the most important aspects of becoming our very best potential. What got you started on this journey? What has this journey taught you so far? Have you become more of a musician or merely a guitar player? These questions have been invading my mind over the past few years or so as I'm teaching. Let me share with you some of the secrets regarding music that I've picked up over the last 15 years or so. I will touch on a handful of my strength topics from my previous tutorials and give you my thought process on each of them. This is your opportunity to test your listening skills. No guitar. No exercises to distract you. Only listen. Let's begin...

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  1. 1 2:01 Lesson · 2m Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Intro Hello Folks, This month I want to go a different route. Let's take a minute and think about our musical journey and the most important aspects of becoming our very best potential. What got you started on this...
  2. 2 6:06 Lesson · 6m Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Technique Is technique all that important? When first discovering technique, did you ever stop to think about what you're capable of outside the metronome culture? Technique is super important but even more so a...
  3. 3 6:06 Lesson · 6m Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Rhythm Most of us know that without a good sense of rhythm, music can be played but not expressed. Rhythm is in and throughout everything that is. Think about how you speak to your lawyer as opposed to children...
  4. 4 5:10 Lesson · 5m Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Modes Modes are a lot like rhythm in a sense that they should be explored and expressed. Learning modes won't make you more melodic just because you learned them on the fretboard. Modes posses a texture that needs...
  5. 5 7:54 Lesson · 8m Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Songwriting I truly enjoyed my musical freedom growing up. My family was always writing and creating music. I have no intention of cramping your musical style. However, those of you experiencing difficulty getting your...
  6. 6 1:36 Lesson · 2m Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Wrap Up Thanks for listening! Once again I want you to reflect on the freedom of this tutorial. No exercises. No study material. Just self reflection. This should become a part of your everyday. The understanding...

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