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Some YouTube Inspiration: Jazz Improv Playlist with Matt Warnock spotlight. #cgrocks #inspiration #music

These CGRocks post are here to provide some outside YouTube inspiration for your guitar practice and daily music habits. This list contains some real gems of insight into improvisation, the ability to create music on the fly, from a wide variety of sources. There is Barry Harris and Bob Reynolds; Rick Beato, Martin Taylor.All…

#YouTube Inspiration: Musicianship #Playlist from #cgrocks.

These CGRocks post are here to provide some outside YouTube inspiration for your guitar practice and daily music habits. This list contains some real gems of insight into musicianship, the ability to think and make music., from a wide variety of sources. There is Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke; Steve Vai, Martin Taylor; Bernstein…

Last installment - CAGED System: D Shape & learning the #guitar fretboard with Barrios. #cgrocks lesson

This lesson delves into the D shape of the CAGED system and how it helps to learning classical guitar pieces.   So how does learning a box shape system, normally associated with rock guitar and improvisation help us learn classical guitar pieces? That is what this lesson will continue to explore using another segment from Agustin Barrios’ Las Abajas. (If you missed the first post, it is on the C…

CAGED System: A Shape learning the #guitar fretboard 1 shape at a time. #lesson #cgrocks

This lesson delves into the A shape of the CAGED system and how it helps to learning classical guitar pieces. So how does learning a box shape system, normally associated with rock guitar and improvisation help us learn classical guitar pieces? That is what this lesson will continue to explore using another segment from Agustin Barrios’ Las Abajas. (If you missed the first post, it is on the C…

Guitar Repertoire: Context & Perspective. How Satch's Tears in the Rain helped pass a #classical #guitar audition.

This editorial post is a personal point of view of how choosing the right guitar repertoire can make a difference at an audition; It is all about context and perspective. This personal editorial piece begins, like so many good ones do, with a story about a journey. A journey that pretty much straight away began with hope and then defeat, and then progressed on to a phoenix like rise from the…

CAGED System: E Shape. Barrios some bees and a lesson on learning #guitar pieces. #cgrocks

This lesson delves into the E shape of the CAGED system and how it helps to learning classical guitar pieces. So how does learning a box shape system, normally associated with rock guitar and improvisation help us learn classical guitar pieces? That is what this lesson will continue to explore using another segment from Agustin Barrios’ Las Abajas. (If you missed the first post, it is on the C…