The Sound Off

Posted by: on May 19, 2012

05/18/12

Slow Down To Speed Up

Are you frustrated because you have a favorite riff or lick that you would love to learn but it just seems way too fast? No problem! It doesn’t matter how fast or difficult the song is, you can play it! But it takes dedicated practice time to get there. Here’s a couple of tips to help you out.

The best way to learn your favorite song is to start slow and work your way up to playing full speed. Here’s how:

  • Find the tabs or sheet music to the song you want to learn. It’s important to see how the song is played, not just hearing it.
  • Use a metronome to help you keep time. It’s a bit more of a traditional approach but nothing is better to help you develop great rhythm.
  • Download Audacity, a free sound editing program. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. This program allows you to import virtually almost every type of audio file from .mp3 to .wav. What’s really cool about this is you can take a song of your choice and be able to change the tempo of the song, even without changing the pitch. No more Alvin and the Chipmunks or Darth Vader sounding music files! You can even change the key of the original song recording if it’s in a key that is more difficult to play.

If you’re currently struggling with learning your favorite songs because it’s too fast, try these tips! Also, please feel free to comment on this to tell everyone how these tips have helped you. If you need additional help, you can also schedule some private lessons with me either via Skype or in person.

Have fun!

That’s the Sound-Off for now. Keep rocking out!

04/26/12

Guitar Camp 2012!!

Hello everyone! I’m excited to let you all know about a great summer event coming up very soon. If you’re one of those people who get bored during the summer, we have just the thing for you!

Brian Newman, a good friend of mine, and fellow guitar instructor, will be partnering with me to bring you a week long event. We will be giving you the opportunity to learn along side other guitarists of all skill levels, many different styles and techniques of playing guitar, and having a blast while doing it. Not only will you learn about the guitar and how to play it, but you’ll also get a chance to learn how to play and interact with others.

Brian and I hope that you or someone you know would join us. We’re getting more and more stoked as this event gets closer!

More details below. To register click on the flyer!

That’s the Sound Off for now, keep rocking out!

Willis Bouwman – The Science of Six String

If you’re looking to work on your chops as a guitar player, or just want to spend some time learning new songs with other guitarists, we’ve got the event for you!

Here’s what we’re going to be covering:

  • Learn to play with other guitarist
  • Learning each others favorite songs
  • Open chords
  • Power chords
  • Basic scales
  • Improvisation
  • Warm up exercises
  • And SO MUCH MORE!!

All of this for $100.00!!

  • All skill levels welcome!!
  • A light healthy lunch provided everyday

 

Share on Facebook

Comments

  1. Donna says:

    This is a comment to the admin. I discovered your “The Sound Off :: The Science of Six String” page via Google but it was hard to find as you were not on the front page of search results. I see you could have more visitors because there are not many comments on your website yet. I have found a website which offers to dramatically increase your rankings and traffic to your site: http://www.linklegends.com/free-trial. I managed to get close to 1000 visitors/day using their services, you could also get lot more targeted visitors from search engines than you have now. Their free trial and brought significantly more visitors to my site. Hope this helps :) Take care.

  2. Aw, this was a very nice post. In idea I wish to put in writing like this additionally – taking time and actual effort to make an excellent article… but what can I say… I procrastinate alot and under no circumstances seem to get something done.

  3. Hello there! I know this is somewhat off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this website? I’m getting tired of WordPress because I’ve had issues with hackers and I’m looking at options for another platform. I would be great if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.

  4. TY says:

    I think The Sound Off :: The Science of Six String is a nice post and you do a great job of writing with good details. Tom – http://www.ep2p4u.com

  5. bayan escort says:

    I was studying some of your content on this site and I believe this web site is very informative ! Continue putting up.

  6. Thanks on your marvelous posting! I seriously enjoyed reading it, you may be a great author.I will make certain to bookmark your blog and will come back later on. I want to encourage you to ultimately continue your great posts, have a nice holiday weekend!

  7. I like your fantastic web site. Just what I was searching for!
    Best regards,
    Ron

  8. I study a number of weblogs and i certainly value your content. The write-up has really peaked my interest. I am planning to bookmark your web page and maintain checking for new specifics.

  9. Sportslinks says:

    This website was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I have found something which helped me. Cheers!

  10. baby tutu says:

    Greetings I am so thrilled I found your blog page, I really found you by mistake, while I was browsing on Aol for something else, Regardless I am here now and would just like to say thanks a lot for a marvelous post and a all round entertaining blog (I also love the theme/design), I don’t have time to go through it all at the minute but I have bookmarked it and also added in your RSS feeds, so when I have time I will be back to read a lot more, Please do keep up the awesome work.

Leave a Reply