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My New Direction
Filed Under (Barre Chords, General, Practice, Random Thought) by Frank on 25-07-2008
Tagged Under : Bm, Books, Exercise, Exercises, focus, Guitar, Learning, Mel Bay, Metronome, Modern Guitar Method, Music, music notation, New Direction, Scale, Scales, Teacher
A little bit ago, I posted about the fact that I wanted to go in a new direction; and I have since started. I got a lot of good recommendations from different people and I appreciate everything everyone suggested.
However, as it turns out I didn’t actually go with any of them… at least not yet. I may revisit other material. For now, I’ve got a book called “Mel Bay’s Modern Guitar Method Grade 1.” I started flipping through it, and decided that this is where I’d start. I have a bunch of books, but for some reason I thought that this one suited me the best for now.
From this book, I’m basically trying to do everything right… I’m going through the exercises, I’m playing everything against a metronome and I’m ensuring that I’m playing the correct notes… Furthermore, this book only presents the material in standard music notations… Reading standard music notation is something else that I wanted to get out of learning guitar; my guitar teacher a while back wasn’t able to help me with that.
I will be focusing on material in this book as well as scales and of course, my quest to nail Bm which has been an “issue” for a while. I can play it better, but still can’t change to it quickly enough (for me).
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I have this book too: “Mel Bay’s Modern Guitar Method: Grade 1″. I have found it very useful and constantly go back to it. Very useful in the fact that I will need to get a new one soon.
Good luck to you, Frank. Mel Bay’s Modern Guitar Method is the method that started it all back in 1947. More guitarists have used Mel Bay’s techniques to get to where they are today. Stick with it, it’s worth it. I look forward to reading about your progress!
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For the record, I work at Mel Bay, so I guess I am a little biased….)
-Steve