The Guitar Virtuosity System
For Beginning to Advanced Students, Teachers, and Performers
Call Toll Free: 1-866-994-2224
or email info@ClassicalGuitarTips.com
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Two Purchase Options:
1. Choose your own learning materials from this website.
2. Answer an e-mail questionnaire and optionally, provide recordings
of your playing. In response, I will select appropriate materials from this website AND from my vast, private library of learning materials
that only my private students have access to.
This option allows me to target your technical and musical weaknesses
to help you develop your full potential quickly.
Includes a ring binder to catalog the printed materials.
Binder cover is shown below:
Consulting and binder FREE with a purchase of $100 or more
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The Guitar Virtuosity System is:
■ A true path to virtuosity that took half a lifetime to discover and compile.
■ A musical-life-changing program of study that allows you to
reach your full potential as a guitarist
By using it you will:
■ Discover technical secrets and innovative learning methods
you won't find anywhere else.
■ Learn factors that separate professionals from amateurs.
■ Eliminate every major technical problem and connect
your mind, heart and spirit to the guitar.
Every significant guitar tip, trick and secret I've discovered in 40 years
as a player, teacher, and now head of one of the country's top guitar studios,
can be yours for the price of a few months of guitar lessons.
The system pertains to the following:
■ Left-hand Technique: all instruments and styles
■ Right-hand Technique: fingerstyle only
■ Remaining instruction in theory, practice methods,
musicianship, interpretation, expression, chords, repertoire
development, and performance: all instruments and styles
The Guitar Virtuosity System will save you years or even decades of frustration and unproductive effort, and speed you towards mastery of the guitar.
It is perfect for the new student who wants to learn the guitar correctly
the first time and become a good player quickly.
If you are guitar teacher, your students will easily overcome virtually
any guitar learning problem, and progress many
times faster than you ever dreamed possible.
As a result, your reputation in the music
education community will skyrocket,
along with referrals from existing students.
(One student alone gave my studio 5
referrals in less than a year.)
Guitar teachers, individually or in groups, can also attend my
Guitar Studio Management seminar. The information I provide will:
■ increase your lesson income by $1000s per year
■ lower advertising costs
■ solve the problem of the "summer slump"
■ help recruit and retain the best quality students
■ manage your lesson business better with
forms, documents and policies sheets
...and much more
My favorite piece of advice is the perfect retort to the price shopper,
whose first question on the phone is: "What do lessons cost?"
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COMMENTS FROM CUSTOMERS
who purchased single books in the system
"Reading this book is like receiving a private lesson from the author."
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NEW OFFER
If your skill level ranges from advanced beginner to late intermediate,
and you are struggling to play the guitar beautifully and accurately, try
One-on-one and Group Workshops
with a Fingerstyle/Classical Guitar Miracle Worker
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MAJOR ELEMENTS OF THE SYSTEM
The Guitar Virtuosity System consists of hundreds of
training principles divided into four main categories:
Practice Methods—critically important secrets that allow you to learn difficult pieces in weeks rather than months/never. Without them, you will continually waste time in the practice room and find yourself frustrated and musically unsatisfied. Even worse, you'll have no idea why you're going nowhere as a guitarist.
Technique—how to move your fingers to maximize accuracy and relaxation, conserve movement and energy, and promote speed and beauty of sound.
Musicianship—the key aspects of making beautiful music, including rhythmic accuracy, legato, producing a "singing tone", and creating the beautiful effect of two guitars playing at once. Flashy technique is of no value without these skills. In other words, you'll always sound like an amateur without them.
Interpretation—how to add personal flair to written music and make it come alive. Interpretive devices—musical factors the composer did not notate—include tenuto, ritardando, breath pauses, phrasing, vibrato, portamento, dynamic shaping and tone contrast.
Repertoire Development and Performance—advice on how to assemble an entertaining repertoire and perform it without mistakes every time.
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BOOKS, SOFTWARE AND RESOURCES
Because music is a hearing art, and guitar technique has subtle spatial aspects that cannot be portrayed in words, diagrams or photographs, the system is best taught in my seminars, which can accommodate 1-8 participants.
Seminar participants receive a 50% discount on all materials in the system.
Guitar Tips, Tricks and Secrets:
$12.95
This book will help guitarists at all levels improve, and is a priceless resource for teachers. The fact that it's based on a beginner method is an asset because each technical, practice, musical and interpretive principle is taught in a simple context, making it easy to understand and master quickly.
All the major technique, musicianship, practicing and interpretation principles in the Guitar Virtuosity System are taught in conjunction with beautiful studies and music.
My book describes how I teach my students this music.
This is the closest you can get to private lessons in book form.
The Carcassi Crash Course
in Guitar Technique and Musicianship
$12.95
Daily athletic conditioning of the fingers is required to maintain the technique and sound control. This unique workout book accomplishes this goal while guiding you quickly through the Carcassi Guitar Method.
Value of Carcassi's approach is that it includes scales, chord progressions in virtually every major and minor key you would encounter in the classical/fingerstyle guitar repertoire. There is also wealth of advanced technical material such as double-note scales, slur exercises, ornamentation exercises (trills, etc.), upper position playing and harmonics.
I'm not aware of any other single-volume method that is so comprehensive. Carcassi also adds dozens of attractive studies and solos in a variety of keys.
My experience as a teacher allows me to identify the most important material in the method, and how to use it properly.
Includes tips on technique, practicing, and musicianship.
(The Carcassi Method, Fischer edition, must be purchased separately at $15.95.)
$19.95
Thorough knowledge of the fingerboard is a must to avoid mistakes and learn new music quickly. It also makes composing, improvising and arranging easier. This software program will teach you all the notes on the fingerboard in 1-3 months.
Technical Building Blocks Checklist
$6.95
Describes all the essential technical issues required for guitar mastery. Students and teachers can use this as a guide to technical development and a gauge to measure progress.
The main value of this resource lies in uncovering technical problems that the student or teacher may not be aware of, that are limiting the ability to play music accurately and beautifully.
Essential Practice Guidelines
$7.95
A condensation of the key practice methods that eliminate mistakes and accelerate progress. Laminated to keep on your music stand for quick reference.
Fingerstyle and Strumming Chord System
$7.95
Learn the most important, frequently-used chords in guitar playing in a matter of months.
Offers extensive instruction on how to use the chords, including:
■ tips to make chords easier for beginners
■ a powerful chord organizing and warm-up system
■ numerous fingerstyle strumming techniques
■ intermediate and advanced barre chord training
■ natural vs. chromatic chord roots and transposition
Laminated.
Note Reading Chart
$4.95
A simple, yet powerful chart that allows you to easily identify where the notes of any guitar solo are on the fingerboard while you are working from the score. It also provides specialized training that helps "unlock" the fingerboard. This is not a typical fingerboard chart.
Laminated.
50 Guitar Learning Tricks and Strategies
For Students and Teachers
$9.95
The basis of my accelerated system of teaching beginners
and intermediates, plus dozens of other helpful tips for
students who want to master the guitar quickly
Classical Guitar Buying Guide
$7.95
The virtuoso sound production skills learned through my system won't manifest fully without an artist-quality guitar. This book will help you find a beautiful-sounding, responsive, playable instrument you'll cherish for a lifetime.
Written by a classical guitar dealer and teacher, this book offers industry-insider advice and valuable insights into the nature of classical guitar sound and construction. As a result, you'll avoid paying for an expensive "lemon", losing money through repeated trade-ups, or wasting hundreds of dollars in shipping charges searching for the right guitar.
Top 100 Fingerstyle/Classical Guitar Hits
$5.95
After developing incredible technique and control of sound with my system, you need a repertoire to showcase these skills. Like me, you may be dissatisfied with standard anthologies, which are full of over-played or unimaginative classical/fingerstyle guitar music.
After years of research, I discovered that the most creative and attractive guitar solos are usually published as single works or in small collections. Others are available for free only on the Internet. A small percentage exist in anthologies, but the average guitarist doesn't have the time to play through hundreds of dull pieces in order to find them.
My list of the Top 100 Classical Guitar Hits will help you build a repertoire of memorable, crowd-pleasing solos that will keep you in demand as a performer and recording artist.
Note that the list includes many popular and contemporary selections.
$7.95
A concise, 40-page guide to the most important music theory facts and concepts. A must for teachers and students, who need to understand the building blocks and structure of music. This knowledge will allow you to play the guitar more beautifully and communicate effectively with other musicians.
$7.95
Provides all the information you need to master chords at the intellectual level, plus deep insights into using them to create music.
Chord-Melody System for Guitar
$9.95
An easy-to-learn system for creating beautiful, original, crowd-pleasing solos from any music consisting of melody and chords (lead sheets, fake books, piano-vocal-guitar books, etc.).
With this system, you can expand your repertoire of performance pieces indefinitely. Once it is mastered, new solos can be created in a matter of hours or even minutes. The most experienced guitarists will be able to improvise chord-melody solos at sight.
Creating chord-melody solos is also a fabulous way to master fingerboard and the all-important art of voicing chords (rearrranging the notes of chordsthe best sound individually and a combination with other chords.)
Overall, I consider learning to create chord-melody solos
one of the most important aspects of mastering the guitar
technically, musically and creatively.
Baroque Hits for Guitar
$9.95
A collection of my favorite pieces from the Baroque Period. Includes the Minuet from Sonata 12 by Weiss, an intermediate piece with one of the most beautiful melodies I have ever heard.
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THIRD PARTY RESOURCES
These products are required as part of the Guitar Virtuosity System.
Korg TM-40 Metronome and Chromatic Tuner
$39.95
A metronome with volume control and
the ability to sub divide the beat into eighth notes, triplets,
sixteenth notes, dotted eighths, etc.
This device is compact and fits easily in the accessory
compartment of your guitar case.
EarMaster Pro Ear Training Software
A simple, easy-to-use software program to develop your ear.
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LINKS
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