Getting Started

This site is for guitar players. It's goal is to offer a a comprehensive examination of all aspects of playing the guitar. It's divided into 4 main areas.

• Contacting the guitar. The most comprehensive analysis anywhere on the internet of how we contact our instrument. It covers human anatomy, biomechanics, posture, overuse injuries, all as they apply to guitarists. It contains a graded set of exercises to teach you how to relax specific muscle groups and finally a thorough examination of posture and hand/wrist/elbow positions with practical advice for achieving the best approach for your style of playing.
• Contemporary Music Theory. Any type of theory is only useful when it can be applied and the examination here of Contemporary Music Theory focuses on how to make it useful. With plenty of examples from contemporary music and ways that you can put it into practice for your self.
• Applied Musicianship. Guitarists are musicians and there are many skill that you can learn away from your instrument to enhance your ability as a player. We'll cover those here.
• Practice. And then we apply all this to your instrument.