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Anatomy of Guitar Playing: Move Better, Feel Better, Play Better
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Series: Anatomy of Drumming, Book 2
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ISBN10: 1545146772
ISBN13: 9781545146774
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 4 2018
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.47 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781545146774
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 4 2018
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.47 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The #1 Book on the Mechanics of Movement behind Playing the Guitar.
Learn the Rules of Movement to optimize your performance and:
Avoid Poor technique: Learn the How & Why of technique so you can make informed choices about how you want to play.
* Move Better: Learning the Rules of Movement will make you more effective in your movements
Learn the Rules of Movement to optimize your performance and:
Avoid Poor technique: Learn the How & Why of technique so you can make informed choices about how you want to play.
* Move Better: Learning the Rules of Movement will make you more effective in your movements
* Play Better: Optimizing movement will let you gain facility to easily play faster
* Feel Better: Avoid technique mistakes that slow you down and cause pain and injury over time. Learn how to recover from existing pain and injury by changing your technique to eliminate the root problem. * Learn Faster: Understanding the mechanics of movement will show you what to pay attention to - and what not to. Breaking Down the Mechanics that Drive the Techniques Used by the Masters. Learn:
* When to put your thumb over the neck and when to have it behind.
* Why sometimes it is better to put your guitar super low* How to avoid injury
* The advantages and disadvantages of footstools
* In ins and outs of pick grip
* And much more Guitarists are athletes. Playing the guitar requires the skilled use of your entire body. Unfortunately, most books on playing guitar focus exclusively on what notes to play, and give little or no attention to how they should be made. This leaves guitarists with a problem. Misunderstanding the mechanics of movement leads to frustration, because it makes learning new techniques harder, limits your abilities when techniques don't work like they should, and causes injury when unhealthy technique wears down your body.The solution is simple: Anatomy of Guitar Playing is your guide to moving well, learning faster and avoiding injury. When you understand the mechanics of moving, you will know for yourself how techniques work. Anatomy of Guitar Playing is both a description of how the body works, as well as a prescription for how to move better, taking you through what you need to know about the body in order to use it more effectively. It covers the anatomy and physics of fretting and picking, how to set up and adjust the guitar to your body and many other important topics. Through learning about the proper use of the body at the guitar, you will be able to learn faster, play with better facility and reduce injury.
* Feel Better: Avoid technique mistakes that slow you down and cause pain and injury over time. Learn how to recover from existing pain and injury by changing your technique to eliminate the root problem. * Learn Faster: Understanding the mechanics of movement will show you what to pay attention to - and what not to. Breaking Down the Mechanics that Drive the Techniques Used by the Masters. Learn:
* When to put your thumb over the neck and when to have it behind.
* Why sometimes it is better to put your guitar super low* How to avoid injury
* The advantages and disadvantages of footstools
* In ins and outs of pick grip
* And much more Guitarists are athletes. Playing the guitar requires the skilled use of your entire body. Unfortunately, most books on playing guitar focus exclusively on what notes to play, and give little or no attention to how they should be made. This leaves guitarists with a problem. Misunderstanding the mechanics of movement leads to frustration, because it makes learning new techniques harder, limits your abilities when techniques don't work like they should, and causes injury when unhealthy technique wears down your body.The solution is simple: Anatomy of Guitar Playing is your guide to moving well, learning faster and avoiding injury. When you understand the mechanics of moving, you will know for yourself how techniques work. Anatomy of Guitar Playing is both a description of how the body works, as well as a prescription for how to move better, taking you through what you need to know about the body in order to use it more effectively. It covers the anatomy and physics of fretting and picking, how to set up and adjust the guitar to your body and many other important topics. Through learning about the proper use of the body at the guitar, you will be able to learn faster, play with better facility and reduce injury.
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