[Menvi-discuss] update on my guitar class

Tue Jan 29 16:16:58 EST 2013

Timothy, I didn't mean to suggest that people shouldn't come up 
with their own unique style. For every guy who says there is one 
way to pick, I can name a few professionals who do it other ways 
and get great results.
But there are things that, if practiced, become bad habbits. 
Practice makes perfect, but it can also make permanent. *grin*

At 04:02 PM 1/29/2013, you wrote:
>Chris,
>
>I totally agree with you.  I think that all he meant was if you're
>going to play classically or do anything substantial with the guitar
>there are definite ways of doing things right and incorrectly.  My
>professor would agree; he tells his private students and his studio
>class that if you just want to play Jimmy Buffet tunes and that's it
>you can play any way you want, but if you want the option of going
>beyond that and working towards learning classical pieces or something
>of that nature then technique isn't unimportant.  The choice is up to
>the student, and I know someone who plays the guitar overhanded as
>opposed to underhanded and still can play beautifully, but the tambour
>isn't the same and he's got very interesting and somewhat awkward ways
>of technique.  (He taught himself to bar chords with his pinky).  Bear
>in mind though that depending on what you're choosing to not do the
>traditional way that there may also be physical risks involved too.
>
>On 1/29/13, Timothy Clark Music <timothyclarkmusic at me.com> wrote:
> > chris, i agree your fingues can't be placed on the frets themselves
> > odviously but the thing i'm saying though is people need to 
> find their own
> > way. for example, when i do slide guitar i hold my guitar flat 
> on my lap and
> > the neck is proped up. it's not wrong but it's usually not done 
> that way
> > either
> > Timothy
> >  Your friend in the music industry
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> >
> > On Jan 29, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Chris Smart wrote:
> >
> >> Timothy, there is definitely a right way to position the hands and
> >> fingers, and definite do's and don't's when it comes to 
> positioning the
> >> guitar. not to mention placing the fingers immediately behind 
> the frets,
> >> not lifting them too far off when changing strings, using a 
> finger as a
> >> guide or pivot etc.
> >>
> >> But hey, free is free, right?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> At 01:56 PM 1/29/2013, you wrote:
> >>> i don't do them in a university setting. i do them from my 
> home. and,
> >>> when i give lessons the only thing i'll do is show you some 
> cords, some
> >>> picking stragities if you wish and let you go. i believe your 
> teacher
> >>> shouldn't be a teacher as much as a director.
> >>> let me explain what i mean. i don't believe there's a write 
> or  a wrong
> >>> way to play guitar. now, people would argue with me on that but
> >>> seriously, there's no write or wrong way to do it. remember, 
> it's all
> >>> theory and theory can be bent and even changed. you should 
> hold your
> >>> guitar so as it feels write to you. after all, you are the 
> one playing
> >>> it.
> >>> i have a friend up in Charlotte NC who holds the neck of his 
> guitar
> >>> against his ear and he makes beautiful music and that's my 
> point. the
> >>> guitar should work with you as you work with it. now, i hold 
> my guitar
> >>> regularly but i do taps and harmonics and chicken picking all 
> in 1 so
> >>> that's again, my point. every instrument should be 
> manipulated to get the
> >>> sound you want out of it. sure, there's people who might say 
> that my
> >>> ideas are wrong and that's fine but what makes them wrong? 
> how about
> >>> conventional thinking.
> >>> my personal thoughts on this is there's no write way or wrong 
> way to do
> >>> something. actually, the only wrong thing is not 
> experimenting in my
> >>> humble opinion.
> >>> so, what i do for students interested in guitar, i show them the
> >>> conventional means should they wish to do them but i also 
> tell them to
> >>> experiment and to find their own way to make their own 
> sounds. basically,
> >>> everything i show is because the person want's to be shown 
> it. if you
> >>> just want to bounce questions and ideas, that's fine as well. 
> i do this
> >>> stuff for free because i believe information should be shared 
> freely.
> >>> Timothy
> >>> Your friend in the music industry
> >>> 
> <http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com>http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com
> >>>
> >>> 7244011224
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Kelsey Nicolay wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I actually was taking a studio class with a private 
> lesson.  It just
> >>>> wasn't the right time to take lessons in a university setting.
> >>>>
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