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Besides writing blog posts, I enjoy reading posts from other people’s guitar blogs, or guitar-related articles from other sources on the internet. I usually read for inspiration, entertainment, or to educate myself about some aspect of guitar playing.
Reading about playing the guitar, or writing about playing the guitar keeps you connected. It can sometimes be hard to motivate yourself to practice, or even just to play the guitar in the absence of an external trigger. I know that this is true for myself, too!
Recommended reading this week
Here are two articles that caught my attention this week. If you have a spare couple of minutes, I am sure that you might find these useful, too.
“How To Improve Hand Synchronization”. In my post on articulation this week, I discussed a left and right hand synchronisation exercise. This article contains four very useful exercises to perfect your hand synchronisation, and your alternate picking skills. The final three exercises include left hand shifting, which is very useful and I wish I’d come up with myself!
“How To Nail a Hard Chord Change”. Changing between chords can sometimes be quite difficult, especially when the fingerings of the two chords are very different, or when both chords are relatively far apart on the fretboard. In this post, Christopher Davis explains four ways to get this type of chord change down. It’s very useful when you want to play something like Cavatina!
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Posted on October 29th, 2010 by Willem
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