Both knowledge and practice are extremely important and must go hand in hand if you want to perfect a particular kind of art or skill. This applies to almost any skill – driving, cooking, playing musical instruments, cricket, or any other form of skill, which requires coordination skills and a deeper understanding of the technicalities involved. Factors like practice timings, duration, frequency, degree of concentration and extent of effort put in (whether 100 percent or not) do matter a lot. But what matters most are the instructional tools used. Although practice is considered as the best instructors of all, it will yield results only if it goes in the correct direction. Directionless efforts are wasted efforts. Therefore, you should practice in the correct direction and use the best tools for obtaining maximum benefits.
Let’s now shift our focus to the area of learning to play the guitar. With the Learn and Master Guitar instructional package, your guitar learning efforts get the correct direction, supported by highly comprehensive information base and great ways to practice guitar along with the instructor. This program provides you with a strong foundation by imparting sound knowledge in the areas of music theory and basics. Topics covered in the instructional package include –familiarization with the guitar, exercises for improving finger agility and strength, correct posture while playing, reading music and guitar tabs, guitar tuning, proper right and left hand positioning and movements, understanding chord formulas and abbreviations, chords, chord progressions, chord transitions and chord substitution for major and minor chords, advanced chords, strumming patterns, exercises and techniques, ear training, fingerstyle technique, recognizing major, minor and pentasonic scales, Barre Chords, altered chords, etc.
The different techniques covered in Steve Krenz Learn and Master Guitar program include - hammer-ons, pull-offs, distortion effects, tremolo-picking, vibrato, natural harmonic, pinch harmonic, tapping, bending, sliding, palm muting, etc. This extraordinary program also teaches you how to strike the power chords, power chord exercises, power riffs, arpeggios, pedal effects, introduction to chord melodies, soloing techniques and lead guitar styles, and several other crucial aspects of guitar playing. The large number of different styles that are covered in this program include – acoustic guitar, electric and rock guitar, classical and finger style guitar, blues guitar, jazz guitar, country guitar, chicken picken style, funk guitar, etc.
There is such an incredible amount of information packed in this program that you will not need to look elsewhere for anything related to guitar learning. All you need to do is to learn the basics from the video lessons (or the printed workbook in case you are not too comfortable using the video lessons) and practice them during the workshops time along with the instructor as well as practice with professional players in a band on a large variety of free guitar licks and songs that are provided in the 5 Jam along CDs. These high-quality Jam-along CDs offers about 100 sound-tracks, that offer some of the best guitar licks and popular songs which you can jam along with.
You should practice and practice till you attain the desired level of perfection. And then, you should continue the practice to maintain your acquired perfection. Remember that while good players practice till they get it right, while great players practice till they never get it wrong!