Most of what guitarists play, including tons of hit songs, are incomplete exercises that are hopefully interesting regardless of what they are. Most guitarists can only hope to play something that a literative musician wrote in a nice way. I hear only the breakthrough musicians actually speaking coherently and fluently in the language of music. Most musicians are having a musical archaeological expedition looking for those accepted notes, just like a tourist trying to seem cool while ordering a drink. None of that bothers me so much as how most guitar students are in fact adversarial to their own freedom....
My Institute taught many instruments and courses, so I got an opportunity to register all the students. An all too common request was," I will pay you for a year of lessons right now if you will confirm that I don't have what it takes (the dna) for music and then I can forget about it." lol The truth is that the aspects of musical ability that are physical or genetic do not hamper one's ability to speak fluent music and have the transcendence experience that only musicians " in the pocket" experience. In other words in the pocket musicians actually understand the syntax and grammar of music while taking to full expression of their contract. Those kind of myths like "born with talent" are designed to keep you down.
My students will note, that I seem to have superior physical characteristics which makes their opportunity to play as well as me limited or impossible. LOL It only seems that way because I very efficiently use my strengths to my advantage to the point where my weaknesses rarely show. My students will note that I come from a heritage of music and my parents met at Juilliard school of music and they would be practicing and teaching in the house for the first seven years of my life which must have seen my brain into a musical prodigy. Did you see how those students disempower themselves unnecessarily? To be as good as me only requires a bona fide Maestro who uses technology such as biofeedback for your ear training that can now give you the same results in a few months that would normally take almost forever.....
Publicists and profit seekers will say things as part of their job to disempower the public and separate you from the profitable artists. It's BS. My students are shocked to find that I am teaching the same lessons as theirs to famous millionaire musicians because publicists have convinced us that these folks are superior musicians to look up to, when most are primarily performers that incorporate music into their program, and have only studied music enough to get by. Then the artists repeat what they've learned in the beginning for decades, without growing. So no one is immune, not even me. I'm not proud to say that in my past money got the best of me. It afforded me the cushion to feed my narcissism and avoid the musical problems on the guitar that I had not fixed since I was a kid. Now of course I am good in mind and spirit with the balance of values that is healthy because I have realistically achieved a highly competitive level of playing, which along with my long-standing musical fluency, affords me the opportunity to shake guitarists out of their slumber and in to the light of self-expression through the language of guitar music.
The reason why guitarist's don't improvise properly is due to a lack of understanding of simplistic basics of music. This lack is because guitar theory has been presented to them with a completely confused mental construct created by the piano forte people of the Renaissance. It works for piano music but not for today's guitar music! Time to update kids. :-)
On a personal note, I almost never play anything without improvising, just like when I speak, I kinda say it differently each time and I am able to take in the whole moment and speak from the heart. I never copy directly, nor do I have to because for any REAL bona fide Maestro (or his guitar students) is "toddler play" to fully comprehend "hit songs" and therefore play with any personal interpretation and feeling, just as a fully trained Shakespearean actor can easily read some add copy, while making it personalized without copying the next "anchorman" by talking low or whatever. LOL
This is no putdown kids, and this is no narcissistic subjective elitist manipulation on my part and I can prove it to you, whoever you are, and wherever you are, as long as you have a computer and have added Skype. I can prove what I am saying by enhancing your musical abilities, in other words giving you musical superpowers through knowledge that is immediately self-evident. Electricity is immediate and self-evident. Here's a hint: to play modern guitar music as a direct expression like speaking your language of origin right now, you must understand that the elements of music work exactly like electricity.
All you have to do is contact me at "guitarcrossroads" on Skype or IM me on Facebook at Paul T Harrison or e-mail me at thecaliforniaguitarslinger@Gmail.com and I will help you. I have absolutely free, no obligation programs, "fast track" full paid courses, and absolutely free daily personalized correspondence courses. In all these cases I offer several days in a row of Skype lessons which I would have hitchhiked across country to get when I was a young musician. Welcome to "Free the Guitarists" movement lol
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