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Common Misconceptions About Playing Guitar – Part 3

In the final article of this series, I want to talk about two more common misconceptions related to playing the guitar. If you’ve been following along up to now, you already know about the myths many people believe about GENETICS (Part 1) and about EXPECTATIONS (Part 2)…so let’s take a few minutes today and talk [...]

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Common Misconceptions About Playing Guitar – Part 2

In this article, I want to cover 2 more common misconceptions about learning how to play the guitar. These two myths have to do with expectations. The first misconception many new guitar students have is thinking that learning how to play is easy…it isn’t! Remember, if you can get in front of these incorrect beliefs [...]

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Common Misconceptions About Playing Guitar – Part 1

In this series of articles, I want to talk about some common misconceptions new students can have about learning how to play the guitar. Many of your guitar students will have some incorrect assumptions when they come to study with you. These misconceptions can affect how fast they make progress on the instrument and whether [...]

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How To Help Your Students Get Out Of The Rut

Frustration can be the biggest enemy for your students when learning how to play the guitar, but it doesn’t have to be. Everyone who ever quit playing guitar did so because they got frustrated. The truth is, we ALL get frustrated with our development once in a while…a small degree of frustration is unavoidable…but it’s [...]

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