Guitarrr! Great Exercises for Guitar Players » Guitar Quotations http://guitarrr.com Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:53:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Make studies out of difficult sections http://guitarrr.com/make-studies-out-of-difficult-sections/ http://guitarrr.com/make-studies-out-of-difficult-sections/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:45:04 +0000 admin http://guitarrr.com/make-studies-out-of-difficult-sections/ “I make studies out of difficult sections of pieces. I rarely practice a piece all of the way through. When I create a study, I abstract technical difficulty. In other words, I approach a problem not only as it exists in a piece, but also in an abstract way. For example, I may play a phrase backwards or play it very slowly in a different position on the fretboard.”

- Julian Bream

Julian Bream is one the most famous classical guitar performers. This quote from his interview was first seen in The Guitar Player Magazine in June 1990. This and other interviews and lessons with greatest guitarists covering past 40 years of guitar history are published in a book The Guitar Player Book – The Ultimate Resource for Guitarists.

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- Michael Angelo Batio

“Practice what is weak, not what is already easy”

- Eric Vandenberg

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