Guitar Techniques

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Over the last 30 years I must have seen hundreds of students playing and staring at their hands but only last week have worked out why it’s not a good idea, for most people, most of the time.

I was doing a one-on-one video lesson with a girl who was playing and singing and was staring at her hands while she changed chords and then looking back to her laptop to read the lyrics. It didn’t look relaxed or confident, but it wasn’t until I did a ‘deep think’ on it that I figured out a heap of

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