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What To Expect From Guitar Lessons

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by Gordon Kahan on August 5, 2009

Most people begin taking guitar lessons with two expectations: that they want to learn to play guitar, and that they’ll never really be that great at it. I suspect people approach most things in their life like this; after all, how can we be experts at everything? I guess that’s the definition of a hobby: something that we’re interested in but that we except we will never excel at. [click to continue…]

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10,000 Hours – How To Be A Great Guitarist

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by Gordon Kahan on August 5, 2009

Recently my wife turned me on to an author: Malcolm Gladwell. All his books are fascinating, but I think “Outliers” is his best work, at least as far as offering up a new and original philosophy. He presents three main ideas: [click to continue…]

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Learning The Modes, Non-Scientifically

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by Gordon Kahan on June 26, 2009

It seems like whenever people decide to get more serious about their guitar playing “The Modes” inevitably come up. There are countless books and videos on the subject and yet I rarely have students come to me really understanding them, either how to accurately define them or recognize them. Understanding the Modes from a theoretical point of view is essential to anyone who wants to use them in their playing, but that will be covered somewhere else. What I want to share here is how I teach my students to hear and recognize the modes. [click to continue…]

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