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"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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"Apart from your ears, this is the only resource
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"I
wish I'd had Guitar
Made Simple when I was learning how to
play guitar. Chris Standring shows all you
need to know about how to play great guitar
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The new revolutionary program "Guitar
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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...
Take care
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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.
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