guitar - Cleveland Classical Guitar Lessons https://jamesfloodguitar.com Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:34:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://jamesfloodguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cropped-James-guitar-32x32.jpg guitar - Cleveland Classical Guitar Lessons https://jamesfloodguitar.com 32 32 Say Goodbye to Memory Slips: How to Memorize Music https://jamesfloodguitar.com/say-goodbye-to-memory-slips-how-to-memorize-music/ https://jamesfloodguitar.com/say-goodbye-to-memory-slips-how-to-memorize-music/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:28:02 +0000 https://www.jamesfloodguitarlessons.com/?p=4076 By James Flood How many classical guitarists and musicians out there can relate to this experience. It may have been as an adult or as a child, but you’re performing something that you’ve practiced a ton. You’ve played it from memory so many times you could play it in your sleep. Suddenly in

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Having Trouble Practicing? Some Solutions https://jamesfloodguitar.com/having-trouble-practicing-some-solutions/ https://jamesfloodguitar.com/having-trouble-practicing-some-solutions/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:26:30 +0000 https://www.jamesfloodguitarlessons.com/?p=4074 By James Flood Practicing, as everyone knows, is absolutely necessary to learning a musical instrument. And it can’t just involve practicing once in awhile. It needs to be a consistent pattern in one’s life in order to gain the physical skills necessary for playing. With my beginning guitar students I recommend 20 to

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The Case for Apprenticeships in Teaching a Musical Instrument https://jamesfloodguitar.com/the-case-for-apprenticeships-in-teaching-a-musical-instrument/ https://jamesfloodguitar.com/the-case-for-apprenticeships-in-teaching-a-musical-instrument/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:23:38 +0000 https://www.jamesfloodguitarlessons.com/?p=4070 By James Flood For centuries the idea of training for a profession has been assumed, whether that training is in the form of a school or university, or an apprenticeship in a skilled craftsmen’s shop, or an internship for a doctor. So why not teaching a musical instrument? While many musicians have a

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