If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards.
- Joe Pass
Daily Definition:
ADSR
An acronym for attack, decay, sustain, and release, the four stages of a standard envelope generator.
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Musical Vitamins for Guitar Players
To always be ready for peak performance, we need to be sharp and at our best physically, mentally and spiritually. This lesson will give us a complete list of musical Vitamins, that when taken in recommended doses will help us to enable us to absorb the music we ingest, process it, and derive energy from it. Musical vitamins also help us grow, stave off disease that can afflict musicians and heal ourselves musically.
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
A black belt guitar player should be both wide and deep, as explained in the sections below. Also the black belt guitar player should be continually expanding both horizontally and vertically. This lesson has a few ideas to keep you growing and make you a wider and deeper player.
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
Even when you have learned 1000 songs, and have achieved superstar status... the most you'll ever be able to play for an audience in one concert is about 20. Most gigs we play while coming up through the ranks are much shorter, so what you don't play is as important as what you do play. This lesson will help you polish your performances to knock the socks off your audience.
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
Listening to music, we hardly notice how music flows from one measure or from one phrase or section to the next. But playing flowing music requires many months of study and training. Developing timing and flow cannot be rushed any more in music than in learning a new language. It takes time, effort, practice, trials, errors and reinforcement and celebration of successes.
Category: General
Subcategory: Wednesday
Published on: 26 Jan 2005
Want to Turbocharge your Guitar Learning Abilities?
Effective Learning habits and methods can teach you how to transform any idle time into quality practice time whether you have your guitar or not. This reference will teach you how to effectively learn to play your instrument... even when you don't have your instrument with you. You can potentially be learning to play guitar 24 hours a week, even if you only have a guitar in hand for 5 or 6 hours a week.
Category: General
Subcategory: Learning
Published on: 13 Oct 2003
This lesson gives some ideas that help to boost concentration. By gaining total control over our ability to concentrate, we open the physical, mental and physical channels that allow music to flow freely.
Category: General
Subcategory: Concentration
Published on: 06 Jul 2004
