June 6, 2008

How To Become A Great Guitarist

Want to become not just merely a good guitarist, but a great one, then you must master the guitar fret board. A guitar fret board is the flat section on the front of the neck of the guitar. You play guitar chords and select notes to play on the fret board. There are metal bars embedded across the board dividing it into several parts and these parts are called frets.
Yes, it may seem at first almost impossible, especially for the novice guitarist to know every single note on every single fret, however, if you want to be a great guitarist, it is critical to learn them all. It may be more difficult than learning the notes on the piano but with dogged determination, you can master all the notes and chords on the guitar fret board.
Some people suggest that you can practice the guitar mentally. Frederick Noad the author of “Solo Guitar Playing” suggest mental practice methods such as “Learning by Equivalent Notes”, “Transfer of Position” and “Learning by Fret”. You must keep memorizing the notes and positions until you know when to play the notes instinct even with eyes closed.
Position-to-note and note-to-position are also mental practice methods. […]

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