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A Scientific Approach
Welcome to intelligentguitar.com, the home of innovative publications specifically designed for the thinking guitarist. If you are not prepared to accept that you cannot progress beyond your natural ability, then you have come to the right place.
We recognize that guitarists need the very best instruction in guitar technique, guitar practice, and music theory if they are to save themselves from years of wasted effort and slow progress. Therefore we approach guitar more like a science than traditional music education.
Our products are the result of years of research into the obstacles to progress. All our material has one thing in common; it was never designed from a commercial perspective. Rather, it was developed, tested, and revised with the sole purpose of overcoming difficulties faced by guitarists as they struggle to push themselves to new levels of achievement. Only when the information has been tried and tested is it put into product form for the benefit of others. Great care has been taken to bring you the best information possible, rich in high value concepts, and presented in a clear and concise manner. Irrespective of your style of playing (Electric, Acoustic, Classical) you will find invaluable information produced with blood, sweat, and tears over a long period of time.
The chromatic scale exercises in Intelligent Guitar Technique A Scientific Approach are possibly the most detailed and effective exercises ever developed for guitar. The techniques you will learn will enable you to play any scale (or anything else for that matter) with much better accuracy, speed, smoothness, and tone. The exercises reveal the true complexity of the movements needed to master the instrument. In fact, without this knowledge, you are unlikely to proceed much further than your natural talent allows.
When most guitarists think about synchronization (if they consider it at all) they simply imagine both the left-hand and the right-hand fingers or pick touching the strings at the same time. There is much more to synchronization than this. If we want to reach the very highest levels of perfection in our technique, in terms of the smoothness of transition from note to note and speed of playing, then we had better get used to the idea that it is often necessary to perform many complex movements simultaneously, as if they were a single unit. And whats more, we need to be able to analyze any given playing situation to determine the optimum groupings of simultaneous movements so that we can give them the required attention during practice.
Additionally the book is packed with exercises that will create new levels of understanding. Exercises including Controlled Buzzing and the Imaginary Grain of Rice, The Alien Hand, and By the Skin of Your Strings will rebuild your technique from the ground up.
Even if you have been disappointed with your progress in the past, suffering from one or more of the conditions listed below, the Intelligent Guitar Method will help you overcome your obstacles to progress, putting you on the path of continuous improvement.
1. You have reached a plateau
2. You wish you could consistently reproduce your finest playing moments
3. You find it hard to maintain enthusiasm because of slow progress
4. You have numerous books/videos/DVDs but have found them mostly ineffective
5. You have given up many times
6. You feel your desire exceeds your talent
We recognize that guitarists need the very best instruction in guitar technique, guitar practice, and music theory if they are to save themselves from years of wasted effort and slow progress. Therefore we approach guitar more like a science than traditional music education.
Our products are the result of years of research into the obstacles to progress. All our material has one thing in common; it was never designed from a commercial perspective. Rather, it was developed, tested, and revised with the sole purpose of overcoming difficulties faced by guitarists as they struggle to push themselves to new levels of achievement. Only when the information has been tried and tested is it put into product form for the benefit of others. Great care has been taken to bring you the best information possible, rich in high value concepts, and presented in a clear and concise manner. Irrespective of your style of playing (Electric, Acoustic, Classical) you will find invaluable information produced with blood, sweat, and tears over a long period of time.
Guitar Technique and Practice Methods
The chromatic scale exercises in Intelligent Guitar Technique A Scientific Approach are possibly the most detailed and effective exercises ever developed for guitar. The techniques you will learn will enable you to play any scale (or anything else for that matter) with much better accuracy, speed, smoothness, and tone. The exercises reveal the true complexity of the movements needed to master the instrument. In fact, without this knowledge, you are unlikely to proceed much further than your natural talent allows.
When most guitarists think about synchronization (if they consider it at all) they simply imagine both the left-hand and the right-hand fingers or pick touching the strings at the same time. There is much more to synchronization than this. If we want to reach the very highest levels of perfection in our technique, in terms of the smoothness of transition from note to note and speed of playing, then we had better get used to the idea that it is often necessary to perform many complex movements simultaneously, as if they were a single unit. And whats more, we need to be able to analyze any given playing situation to determine the optimum groupings of simultaneous movements so that we can give them the required attention during practice.
Additionally the book is packed with exercises that will create new levels of understanding. Exercises including Controlled Buzzing and the Imaginary Grain of Rice, The Alien Hand, and By the Skin of Your Strings will rebuild your technique from the ground up.
Reinvigorate Your Practice Sessions
Even if you have been disappointed with your progress in the past, suffering from one or more of the conditions listed below, the Intelligent Guitar Method will help you overcome your obstacles to progress, putting you on the path of continuous improvement.
1. You have reached a plateau
2. You wish you could consistently reproduce your finest playing moments
3. You find it hard to maintain enthusiasm because of slow progress
4. You have numerous books/videos/DVDs but have found them mostly ineffective
5. You have given up many times
6. You feel your desire exceeds your talent
