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Hello guitar
enthusiast,
My name is Chris Standring, I'm a recording artist and music
educator. Welcome to www.GuitarMadeSimple.com - a little place on the web that
will help you improve your guitar playing skills greatly!
One of the
reasons I started this website is that many folks who are interested in my existing
jazz guitar lessons program
aren't quite ready for it. It's quite often a little too advanced for them. I
wanted to provide several resources that a total novice can get their teeth into.
In my research on the internet I have found that there is a great deal
of free information, guitar lessons, tips, guitar
tabs and articles regarding guitar playing. Most of it quite valid I would say.
However, for the most part, the novice can't benefit from this free information
because much of the time each article/guitar lesson relates to other aspects of
guitar playing they haven't yet covered. It's all too scattered. As time goes
on there will of course be plenty of free stuff here too but I always recommend
a complete method or course relating to a specific aspect of guitar playing, covered
in detail.
My new home study guitar program is now available and I have
to say it is looking absolutely stunning, and in my research I have seen absolutely
nothing in the marketplace that accomplishes what this new course can accomplish!
Learning to play the guitar is now easier and more fun than ever before.
So why not take a look at this course and see what
you think. Hopefully I'll see you on the other side...
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Level
1 & 2: "Guitar Made Simple"
By Chris Standring
From absolute
beginner to solid intermediate, this course walks you through absolutely everything
necessary to give you a strong grounding in a wide variety of guitar styles. You
will learn open chords, strumming patterns, single line melodies, 25 well known
songs, notes on the fretboard, sight-reading, Blues, rock, classical, single string
improv and venture into a little jazz, and much much more. All with audio, video,
TAB and traditional music notation. More info and order Guitar Made Simple here
"Move over Mel Bay! 'Guitar Made Simple' is
an extremely well thought out beginners program, with a very thorough and personal
approach to help you easily learn how to play the guitar... correctly! So much
more than trying to learn alone with just a book, this brilliant system connects
with you as if an instructor is right with you in your own home. Well done Chris!"
- Corky James LA studio guitarist with Avril Lavigne, Hilary Duff,
Kelly Clarkson, Leann Rimes, Backstreet Boys, Liz Phair, Nick Lachey and Mandy
Moore
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Level
2 & 3: "Play What
You Hear" By Chris Standring
From intermediate
to advanced level, this highly acclaimed course teaches you how to "play
what you hear". You will learn the jazz vocabulary and understand how to
improvise using this vocab over many different harmonies. You will learn to hear
major, melodic minor and blues scales and learn harmony and how to see it all
very simply on the fretboard. Over 300 audio examples and tons of play along tracks.
More info and order Play What You Hear here
"By
far the most innovative and effective ear training program for guitarists I have
seen! Simply the best learning method to come along since Jamie Abersold. Chris
has hit on something really good and much needed today Players of my generation
learned to play on the bandstand as we were forced to "play what we heard"
and if we didn't, we had to get it together pretty darn quick. This course will
help speed up that learning process rapidly. I will recommend this course to my
students highly!" - Ron Eschete Concord Recording artist and educator
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Articles by Chris
Standring
- How
To Move People With Your Music - By Chris Standring
I have never been
more interested in musical phrasing than I am now. Perhaps it is because I have
recently been hearing young technically astounding players with chops up the yin
yang and I am not satisfied. Why? I have been asking myself. And I think the answer
is that, to me, it appears they are not 'in the music', they are simply showing
off their astounding technique. "Look what I can do!" in other words.
This is not the way of the peaceful warrior. - Observe
Yourself
- By Chris Standring
Distractions, they come a plenty
and in all shapes and sizes. One must be ready to deflect them but these days
my approach is a little different. I embrace them. Why? because they are simply
everywhere and the days of me torturing myself because things were not perfect
are over. - Inspiration
- Go Grab It - By Chris Standring
We all get
discouraged from time to time in our musical journey. It's only natural. "Mom,
can I get a guitar for my birthday? - I really want to learn how to play guitar"
- is often how it begins. Then lessons start and it's just all too much for many
and most give up. This is the first 'wheat from the chaff' separation.
- How
To Seriously Improve Your Guitar Playing - By Chris Standring
There are bedroom guitar players and there are live performers.
There doesn't seem to be anything in between. The minute you walk on to a stage
(whether you get paid or not) you are a professional. You are in the business
of entertaining and displaying your wares, so to speak. And if you really want
to seriously get your guitar playing together it is the latter you need to strive
for in my opinion. - Developing
Good 'Time' -
By Chris Standring
How
do we approach improving our 'time'? Well first, it is extremely important that
we are aware that it is one of the most important aspects of music. At all levels,
we need to work on this. - Playing
With Conviction - By Chris Standring
Imagine
you are in a club or even a concert hall. Play a musical phrase and imagine that
the people in the back of the theater need to "feel" that phrase, just
like you mean to feel it. How would you do that? - Building
A Relationship With Your Guitar By Chris Standring
To
become a wonderful guitarist takes time. This article addresses the idea that
positive results often happen in their own time and that we must let things ebb
and flow, just like a healthy relationship. - Defining
the True Artist - Do You Have What It Takes?
By Chris Standring
Great artists are uniquely different
from the norm. But what makes those true greats really stand out from the crowd?
This article explains why real talent is so elusive to many and what musicians
need to focus on in order to reach dizzying heights of success.
- Reaching
For The Soul Zone
By Chris Standring
That Zen like trancendental state
is what all serious searching musicians are striving for. The question is; why
is it not always possible to get there? This article answers that question and
presents some thoughts on the subject. - Finding
The Right Teacher By Chris Standring
Finding the right music teacher can be tricky. This article shows you how.
| Read
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| Blue
Bolero - the new album from Chris Standring, released March 2nd 2010 |
