Tag: Guitar education
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You just came home from work or school. After a day filled with demanding tasks, meetings, or classes, you might feel satisfied and tired. Or perhaps you do not feel satisfied at all. A crisis at work or in a personal relationship may have drained you mentally and emotionally. Maybe you even got annoyed by…
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In short: you don’t have to. But… Let’s first understand the difference between sound and music. The sound we call ”La” is produced when a string vibrates 440 times per second. The note La exists naturally, but in this raw form, it doesn’t carry meaning for us. Sounds become music only when they are organized…
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Professor Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran, also known as the Sherlock Holmes of neurology. He is a groundbreaking neuroscientist who has explored a wide range of topics, including phantom limbs and phantom pain. He also developed mirror therapy, a simple yet pioneering technique. He was the one who showed us that the brain is far more flexible…
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There’s something I often notice during first-time lessons with students who are picking up the guitar for the first time. Even though they’ve never held a guitar before, many of them display surprisingly similar movements and grips during their initial contact. Most of them hold the neck as if it were a stick or the…
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Absolute Pitch Absolute pitch is the ability to recognize and name a musical note (like “C” or “A sharp”) without needing a reference tone. Someone with this ability can hear a random note and instantly say, “That’s D-sharp.” At a music school I used to work at, I met a piano teacher who had this…
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Have you ever noticed yourself frowning, pursing your lips, or clenching your teeth while playing the guitar, without even realizing it? Facial expressions are typically involuntary muscle movements that reflect emotion. We often see them during the performances of guitarists we enjoy watching. Just as we naturally make facial expressions while talking to someone, we…
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Anna Mary Robertson began painting at 78 and gained worldwide fame. Kimani Maruge started elementary school at the age of 84. Nola Ochs earned her college degree at 95. Fauja Singh took up marathon running at 89. Tao Porchon Lynch became a yoga instructor at 80 and kept teaching until she was 100. Bill Tapia…
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In the late 1990s, while exploring how musical training shapes the brain, Harvard neuroscientist Alvaro Pascual-Leone found himself asking an unexpected question: Is it possible that just imagining a movement works as well as practicing it for real? ——————————————– The experiment included two groups of people who had never played the piano before. Both groups…
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Mastering a skill is often seen as something mysterious, almost magical, as if it depends on some hidden gift you’re born with that we can’t quite explain. There’s no denying the role of genetics and the environment we grow up in, but the truth is a little different. The truth isn’t a magical transformation. It’s…
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“Learning is an emotional act.” This sentence from a book I once read really made me pause and think about it. I had always thought of learning as a rational, analytical, and strategic process. After all, that’s how education was presented to me throughout my school years. But how much of the information I was…
