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Growing up in Kentucky, Jim Duff counted the legends of traditional Country music as his heroes. Artists like Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Townes Van Zandt made a huge impact on the young songwriter and helped shape his sound. However, music was not his only talent and life took him in another direction for a while.


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Saturday, December 4, 2010

How Would you Learn to Play Guitar?



The guitar, in its various shapes and forms, is a popular instrument attracting interest from all kinds of people, both young and quite mature. It is portable, versatile, harmonious, suitable for different types of music, readily adaptable to the changing mood of any audience.

According to some of the best instructors, anyone, even the most unaware beginner, can learn to play guitar for his/her own pleasure and enjoyment. The learning process certainly requires persistence and dedication, quite similar to the acquisition of any other skill, but the rewards achieved on the way, playing more and more complex tunes, are sure to provide positive feedback, reinforcing the thrust to continue.

The old way of learning from a musician providing lessons to an individual student or to a small group is nowadays almost completely abandoned because of cost and inconvenience. Recorded audio-visual lessons available either online from the Internet or as a set of DVDs are the preferred and proven modern way to transmit the musical skill of playing guitar.

The student has to follow the examples, to replay and absorb short views as many times as necessary, and to try to perform as pointed out by the instructor, who follows in the course a step-by-step approach. Auxiliary material is usually supplied as printed explanations, to provide theory as needed and to further expound the reasons for the actions shown.

The best providers offer also the advantage of a closely knit forum of students, who meet the same difficulties along the way, and overcome them either by themselves or with the help of instructors or fellow students. Quite commonly pupils are also enabled to ask the instructors, professional musicians located thousands of miles away, for immediate solution of their doubts.

Such a popular demand could not pass unnoticed by educational companies who set out to provide suitable Courses. Along the years experience was gathered and improvements were introduced to satisfy most of the requests from the public.

Would you too want to learn how to play the guitar? How can you spot a reliable Provider of Guitar Lessons once you decide that this is what you want to do? If you browse the Internet in your search, you will find scores of sites who promise to teach you all you need to play guitar. But the usual problem is how to look for a reliable Company providing what they assure.

Having dealt with this problem for some time, I may be able to suggest a few tips.
I recommend to look for providers renowned in their industry for quite some time, recognized by external agencies for their outstanding merits, employing dedicated, exciting professionals as instructors, showing proof of a large group of enthusiastic followers, and publishing a long list of Testimonials from satisfied customers.

If you play around for some time in your search, you will quickly remark that the names of a few companies pop up again and again. Although not a scientific proof, this fact alone may mean that those few names may be worth of a closer look.

Some companies offer you a set of hardware, DVDs, CDs and printed matter. All the learning material will be yours from the start, following you wherever you go. That will make you independent of the vagaries of Internet connections, especially when out of home.

Others, called membership sites, will offer you to get all you need online, whenever you want, in exchange for a monthly recursive fee. You may find this more interesting, because you may pick different instructors and test various teaching methods. But you may need a more severe personal discipline, lest you get lost in the abundance and lose focus in your progress.

Then, by browsing their own sites, you will discover the program of their offerings and see if it makes sense when compared with your purposes, your program, your style, your attitudes.

You may wish to test a few of the free lessons, if available, and you may wish to ask them your questions, to dispel the doubts you may still have. Browsing, inquiring and looking for answers is certainly advisable except that you should put yourself a target date, within which you must decide whose method you will follow.

Otherwise you may delay your choice with endless doubts. My personal opinion is that, among the best providers, however you choose you will not be grossly wrong, although you should try to follow your preferences.

If you are serious in your intent you are encouraged to jump in and take your choice. Then your pleasure and enjoyment, after the long hours of study and practice, will come really within your reach.

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