Top 5 Tips For Guitarists 1) Only play what you want to play “Don’t judge yourself while playing...
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| Top 5 Tips For Guitarists |
1) Only play what you want to play
“Don’t
judge yourself while playing. This is something that came from Lennie
Tristano. His idea was that if you’re constantly saying to yourself
things like, ‘Oh, that’s no good. I should have played the F instead of
the F#,' you’re never really living in the moment; you’re not
improvising fully and expressing yourself and embracing the idea that
music is an art form.
2) Never play with pain
“This
is extremely important. If you’re whipping out that metronome every day
and you’re playing two- and three-octave scales up and down the neck,
at some point if you go, ‘Ow! My wrist hurts,’ then you should stop.
3) Learn something new each month
“This
is an easygoing yet difficult parameter to maintain for practicing.
It’s easy, of course, to play something that somebody taught you 10
years ago and to practice it over and over. Every time you play it well,
it’s like you’re patting yourself on the back.
4) Experience imitating other players
“The
long way of saying this is ‘Experience imitating other players and
develop an opinion of what you like and don’t like, and then build your
sound and style.’ That’s a mouthful, so let’s break it down.
5) Listen to music like a music lover, not like a player
“One
of the things that can skew the development of a point of view about
somebody’s artistic statements is when you forget that the people who
listen to music aren’t playing it. It’s easy to get so caught up in the
details of something that you lose the forest for the trees.
