Is your TRUE musical desire is available now? Spartacus says yes!
Contact me and we will do sessions everyday until you are getting on your feet.....FREE no obligation.... for real.
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Gmail: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com
Skype: "guitarcrossroads"
The truth is that we want transcendent musical experiences. They do not come from buying more, as the music instrument sales industry would have you believe. Music instrument sales culture is designed to disempower the student. Their strategy is filled with cultism, celebrity worship, and probably worst of all, selling how to evaluate musical value with profit and equipment. If a teacher points out that a major act is actually middle-aged men playing songs that are on the level of a ninth grade high school student, the educator is met with disdain. The salesman might defend his position with references to the many millions of dollars that the "culturally infantalized" iconic middle aged men make while playing songs that they perfected in high school. They actually BRAG about the money as a reflection of the musical value. lol
REALITY CHECK: Even the heavy metal groups are basically modern day folk singers and you can be just as good as any of them, and better. The industry would have you believe that musicians are on the level of doctors. HA! Freeing yourself from these types of illusions, whether realized or not, is super important. DO not believe the myths perpetrated by the Publicists,
Even though football, for example, is a game that can be fully understood by youngsters, when there is a "billions of dollars industrial culture" of fully grown mature men STILL involved with a kids game, acting as if it is like practicing medicine. WELL IT IS NOT! I admit that I am a "monkey watching someone throw the ball " all day long person too. lol Hopefully the difference with me is that I keep the kids games in objective, factual context within the mature educated view of society, even if those kids games are done on an Olympic level. Also it is fun to see grown-ups take the kids game as far as it will go. In my view there is no place for industrializing and commercializing the process of learning the true language of music though.
I don't see the Grammys or similar culturally established mindsets as elevating these musicians, rather they are gloating in how they have bound up these artists with attention, millions of dollars, and worst of all the exploitation of these musician's mental syndromes such hypomania through encouraging 'Peter Pan complexes '. The fatcats in the industry could care less that a 50-year-old man is speaking like an eighth grader in a way that demonstrates his lack of maturity even though that lack of maturity is a direct result of fatcats exploitation of the artist over a lifetime. In fact the publicists love it.....mental illness feeds the voteuristic fans. Of course individual responsibility is paramount for health, but when huge fortunes are involved it becomes more than seductive to indulge your mental syndromes into part of your "acting out" on stage and to the media. NOT selling out your music education becomes less of an imperative with financial success. Money made through fame that is way more than required to live, is dangerous to your art..... and your mental health, if one is not prepared.
I understand that people are afraid to learn because they think that it will dilute their creativity, or they will have to give up the fun that they now have by being "too self conscious" lol. That fear is only realized if they are being taught based on the mental theory construct of the piano which is almost irrelevant to guitar. Who wants to go through all that? Fortunately you don't have to. But you do have to contact me, or another bona fide electric guitar Maestro. The only problem is that the maestros on my level are rated at about $1800. for private clinics. As of the publishing date of this blog though, I am here now and these days for you for FREE, so please feel FREE (get it?) to take advantage and free yourself of musical imperialistic domination. lol
Fortunately due to the explosion of WebCam lessons, and the ability to manufacture specific individual multi-media courses for particular students and deliver those highly personalized classes every day, I can afford to start you off and get you going for absolutely free with no obligation. So the choice is to buy into he music industrial complex and be exploited, always feeling that there's something missing that the next guitar, or the next riff, or that next buck will fix which will put you into the zone of satisfaction. Or, since most of you want to "play" the game of music mainly with high school level material anyway, why not get in touch with me and start learning the real tried-and-true rules of the musical game of pop music and perfect it now quickly! :-) I will also teach you more advanced music if you wish....
If you're worried that after a few lessons I will dump you because you might not have money right now, don't worry. My courses start from free e-mail correspondence to a basic $39 per month including lessons and daily attention, and then there is the fast-track to top pro which is $600. per month. If you want to do the fast-track and you don't have $600 per month don't worry, because I give scholarships. All you have to do is complete studies properly instead of paying money.
This is obviously not about money for me. In fact having tons of money is dangerous if you are not psychologically mature enough and prepared, as I said before. Again money is used as a way to enslave musicians. Can you imagine playing a song that you wrote in ninth grade at 50 years old night after night because you have to financially?
What frees you is knowledge that is comprehended in proper context. That context is the guitar which is not a difficult instrument to understand. The problem is that the music education "industry" is not interested in you understanding the instrument. They want you to be indoctrinated into their self supporting courses and complicated programs to the point where most teachers are so confused now that they do not have proper comprehension and are speculating themselves, or they are simply monkey see monkey read copycats! lol That is NOT what musicians REALLY WANT!
One problem with guitar lessons, is it's hard to go further than the foundational knowledge of your teacher. The other day a local music Academy had a performance at our local street fair. There was a 14-year-old kid doing very well on the guitar. His skills were more than adequate to have a perfect presentation. I saw that the bass player was one of the teachers as they were playing some speculation blues. My realization was that the reason why the kid couldn't play to the point of beginners perfection and virtuosity was because the teacher could only take him as far as the teacher himself had gone. Having been in the music teaching business for over a half-century, I understand how the profit motive infiltrates and ruins the process for teachers and students. If the students become great quickly, there is no business... This is why there is so much cultish music celebrity worship in music teaching.... because the idea for a Music Institute is to sustain itself by making the students feel that they are one note away from that plateau of acceptance, when all the teachers are doing is supporting the culture of mediocrity while NOT QUITE GETTING IT THEMSELVES!
Fortunately guitar music has been understood fully and completely as an exact science including compensating for any of the variables of individual capabilities for some time now. In other words it's right there for the taking. You can be is great as anyone ever needs to be on the guitar. The real work has already been done for you....
In this case I have stumbled into a very unique position in that electric guitar and the Blues key is new and I have been there in the thick of it since the inception. In fact my first rock 'n roll gig was in a Cafe Wha? which is where I met Jimi Hendrix in my neighborhood called Greenwich Village. By the Way, Jimi seemed like a very gentle and beautiful man. Even his tone of voice was very reassuring, humble, and gracious...
What we need are breakthrough guitar players. What we don't need is an army of zombie like copycats who are not even aware, or even care, that there copying riffs that somebody was playing while they were most likely drunk or acting out mindlessly. It's as if a famous person trips accidentally when entering the stage, then everybody starts purposely tripping. LOL the world needs musicians to step up and encourage people to break out, and breakthrough instead of shackling themselves to the glimmer of adulation, money, and lying publicists.
Contact me and we will do sessions everyday until you are getting on your feet.....FREE no obligation.... for real.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison
Gmail: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com
Skype: "guitarcrossroads"
Thanks for your consideration. This offer is FREE :-)
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Real Blues Guitarists let the music do the work!
Can "tasteful blues" be learned? Spartacus says yes!
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Fortunately blues is an exact science and it is the greatest exercise for
learning to speak the "language of music" that has ever been invented. Blues
guitar lessons from a bona fide maestro, is the perfect way to find
out how to express yourself using music as a language.
One unique aspect of blues is that one can go back and forth from happy
(when playing the major third) to sad (when playing the minor third).
There are very few musical situations where this can take place and
none so free and dynamic as when exploited by blues guitar. Guitar
is an especially expressive blues instrument because you can bend
inbetween the notes to play minitones or "notes in between the notes".
There are ten minitones in between a whole step, so there are plenty
of additional notes to work with that one could not recreate on the piano.
The seventh chord includes the tritone sound, known during the
Renaissance as the "Devil’s Interval". In those days composers knew
not to musically linger on it, or they could get burned at the stake, The
seventh chord or "dominant 7th" chord only takes place on the 5 chord,
which is the perfect situation to quickly resolve back to the 1 before losing the
Kings favor due to too much "devilish tension". In the guitar battle of good and
evil in the movie "Crossroads", when Steve Vai played the last chord of what
he thought was his winning jam, he ended with a tritone, which lingered on with
it’s go nowhere ominous sound as the devil laughed. That movie was
very hip and the idea of selling your soul to the devil at the
crossroads in order to get the secret of blues music is based on the
Robert Johnson legend.
One of the main secrets of blues guitar, and the lesson to
learn is that the standard blues uses the tri-tone sound on every
chord in order to keep the tension and interest going over a repeating
and naturally supportive musical structure similar to the yearly calendar.
As soon as you think the blues is going to resolve, that next 7th chord
offers the invitation to keep moving and playing over the ocean of musical
causality. The "secret" referred to with the Robert Johnson legend is to
play slide with an "open tuning". There is a bigger ultimate secret of blues
that I save for webcam students only.... I am here for you for free until
you are on the way, so no excuses blues cats....
The blues system is like this: Take the 1 chord and the 4 chord and turn
them into 7th chords by adding a min.7th to them. Of course, the
naturally occurring 7th chord on the 5th is included in the progression. This
way, the music is always looking to RESOLVE, which leaves the rhythm track
foundation in a state of continious flux. That flux is perfect for including tons
of great scales including all the notes and "mini-tones". (there are 60 of those)
The blues scale, which is a minor pentatonic with a flat 5 or "blues note" added,
is the beginning point. From there, after taking some more blues lessons,
the mixolydian altered 9th is added. Then we get to the sweet spot, the relative
minor. Going back and forth from the blues scale down three frets to the relative
minor is a primary function of blues lead. In standard tuning this relates to my
inventions the "E form" and the G "form", There are only 2 forms to learn EVER......
Don't let unisons blow your mind and waste time memorizing complex
scale patterns unless you want to be a "professional student" because you want to.
If one plays long enough, guitarists will ultimately revert back to what works with
the human hand, and the positions and understanding that is in perfect harmony with
how the instrument was designed. Living by memory is no way to live, so only memorize fundamentals until you are ready to indulge in specifics. One good comprehension is
worth a 1000 memorizations....
B.B. King loved relative minor and it’s usually relative minor when people
make comments like, "Tasteful lead." The blues scale, minor pentatonic and
the mixolydian altered 9th create more of an aggressive rock and roll sound,
whereas the relative minor is a nurturing tonality meant to console and give
a happier feeling. Just as pro blues lead guitarists go back and forth from
mixolydian altered 9th to relative minor, they are also aware of going back
and forth stressing the major third and then the minor third at exactly the
right time in the 12 bar blues calendaric structure.
As the progression begins on the 1 chord major or happy rules. Then as the
4 chord comes up in the 5th bar, the focus goes minor or sad. On the 7th bar it's
back to :-) until the 9th bar where minor :-( is stressed until the 11th bar, which
goes happy M3 :-) before throwing the minor third (Debbie Downer) back in on
the 12th bar in order to lead back to the 1 chord where again the mood is to be happy
with the major third again. Here the 1 chord is like when January comes and you
begin the new year happy and the story starts all over again. The 12th bar or
"blues progrogression month of December" ends with the new years eve ball dropping,
which is the turnaround. lol
Please picture an electrical outlet. Positive is happy or M3rd - negative is said or m3rd. Imagine the positive and negative charge fluctuating back and forth over the ground or 7th chord and now you're getting closer to the inner sanctum understanding of how intensely tasteful blues soloing works. It works like nature does, especially like electricity does…
These tonal structures are implied even when not stressed, by the way, so it’s very
important to have that structure deeply embedded in your mind just as well as you now
have the the 12 months of the year, so you can pick and choose when and how to
make your blues lead guitar really tasteful, even if you are playing with no
accompaniment. THE ACCOMPANIMENT IS IN YOUR MIND.......psyche! lol
Blues guitar lessons include learning about life and finding a way
to deeply express feelings in a unique and universally understood way.
It is understood universally because people get feelings from certain
sound vibrations and intervals. There are physical laws at work which
are easy to conquer when you open yourself to learning. For example,
there are 12 notes in music, just like 12 months in a year. You
can repeat the notes again as you go to the same 12 notes in a higher pitch,
just like we repeat the months again going into the next year into the future,
Or we can play the same 12 notes in a lower register just like we look at
last year's calendar. The structure of 12 notes REMAINS THE SAME and
fits with the basic structure of our lives in terms of time.
Another example of life integrating into music and back is that to be in a
key means that you are choosing 7 out of the 12 notes, so then we
are dealing with seven tones just like seven days in the week . Another
natural example for comprehension is that exploiting the 7 key notes is
similar to using the seven basic colors.
You only need to know what musical day it is NOT the date within the
year. Get it? Monday is depressing, Friday go out etc. week after week mostly
not caring about the exact date. There is an order to nature and also to blues
guitar. Learn the perfect natural order to the 12 bar blues, just like you have
learned the perfect order of the days in the week, and you will
always sound expressive and tasteful when applying various types of
phrasing and using decitones as common tones. This understanding saves
you years of wasted time when applied to your studies with a bona fide maestro.
Sequential fixed phrasing, for example, is when you play the same
series of notes over and over again while the changing chords
automatically alter the role of what you are playing. It is like a musical
landscape changing as the blues train goes by with you on it. :-)
This is how a blues guitar player can let the music do the work.
Sometimes staying on the same note while patiently waiting for the
chords to give THAT SAME NOTE different meanings, then adding
some unique effect while making a face gives the impression that you are
doing all the work when actually you are still playing the same note
and letting the music do the work.
This kind of knowledge awards the most fun because even though you
never know exactly what is going to happen as you free yourself to take
chances and improvise, if you use what you learned from your blues
guitar lessons, then whatever you play it will sound like you meant to do it
even if you didn't. lol It’s due to in large part to "demitone common tones".
2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
Contact Paul for your free lessons: thecaliforniaguitarslinger@gmail.com
2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
Contact Paul for your free lessons: thecaliforniaguitarslinger@gmail.com
Fortunately blues is an exact science and it is the greatest exercise for
learning to speak the "language of music" that has ever been invented. Blues
guitar lessons from a bona fide maestro, is the perfect way to find
out how to express yourself using music as a language.
One unique aspect of blues is that one can go back and forth from happy
(when playing the major third) to sad (when playing the minor third).
There are very few musical situations where this can take place and
none so free and dynamic as when exploited by blues guitar. Guitar
is an especially expressive blues instrument because you can bend
inbetween the notes to play minitones or "notes in between the notes".
There are ten minitones in between a whole step, so there are plenty
of additional notes to work with that one could not recreate on the piano.
The seventh chord includes the tritone sound, known during the
Renaissance as the "Devil’s Interval". In those days composers knew
not to musically linger on it, or they could get burned at the stake, The
seventh chord or "dominant 7th" chord only takes place on the 5 chord,
which is the perfect situation to quickly resolve back to the 1 before losing the
Kings favor due to too much "devilish tension". In the guitar battle of good and
evil in the movie "Crossroads", when Steve Vai played the last chord of what
he thought was his winning jam, he ended with a tritone, which lingered on with
it’s go nowhere ominous sound as the devil laughed. That movie was
very hip and the idea of selling your soul to the devil at the
crossroads in order to get the secret of blues music is based on the
Robert Johnson legend.
One of the main secrets of blues guitar, and the lesson to
learn is that the standard blues uses the tri-tone sound on every
chord in order to keep the tension and interest going over a repeating
and naturally supportive musical structure similar to the yearly calendar.
As soon as you think the blues is going to resolve, that next 7th chord
offers the invitation to keep moving and playing over the ocean of musical
causality. The "secret" referred to with the Robert Johnson legend is to
play slide with an "open tuning". There is a bigger ultimate secret of blues
that I save for webcam students only.... I am here for you for free until
you are on the way, so no excuses blues cats....
The blues system is like this: Take the 1 chord and the 4 chord and turn
them into 7th chords by adding a min.7th to them. Of course, the
naturally occurring 7th chord on the 5th is included in the progression. This
way, the music is always looking to RESOLVE, which leaves the rhythm track
foundation in a state of continious flux. That flux is perfect for including tons
of great scales including all the notes and "mini-tones". (there are 60 of those)
The blues scale, which is a minor pentatonic with a flat 5 or "blues note" added,
is the beginning point. From there, after taking some more blues lessons,
the mixolydian altered 9th is added. Then we get to the sweet spot, the relative
minor. Going back and forth from the blues scale down three frets to the relative
minor is a primary function of blues lead. In standard tuning this relates to my
inventions the "E form" and the G "form", There are only 2 forms to learn EVER......
Don't let unisons blow your mind and waste time memorizing complex
scale patterns unless you want to be a "professional student" because you want to.
If one plays long enough, guitarists will ultimately revert back to what works with
the human hand, and the positions and understanding that is in perfect harmony with
how the instrument was designed. Living by memory is no way to live, so only memorize fundamentals until you are ready to indulge in specifics. One good comprehension is
worth a 1000 memorizations....
B.B. King loved relative minor and it’s usually relative minor when people
make comments like, "Tasteful lead." The blues scale, minor pentatonic and
the mixolydian altered 9th create more of an aggressive rock and roll sound,
whereas the relative minor is a nurturing tonality meant to console and give
a happier feeling. Just as pro blues lead guitarists go back and forth from
mixolydian altered 9th to relative minor, they are also aware of going back
and forth stressing the major third and then the minor third at exactly the
right time in the 12 bar blues calendaric structure.
As the progression begins on the 1 chord major or happy rules. Then as the
4 chord comes up in the 5th bar, the focus goes minor or sad. On the 7th bar it's
back to :-) until the 9th bar where minor :-( is stressed until the 11th bar, which
goes happy M3 :-) before throwing the minor third (Debbie Downer) back in on
the 12th bar in order to lead back to the 1 chord where again the mood is to be happy
with the major third again. Here the 1 chord is like when January comes and you
begin the new year happy and the story starts all over again. The 12th bar or
"blues progrogression month of December" ends with the new years eve ball dropping,
which is the turnaround. lol
Please picture an electrical outlet. Positive is happy or M3rd - negative is said or m3rd. Imagine the positive and negative charge fluctuating back and forth over the ground or 7th chord and now you're getting closer to the inner sanctum understanding of how intensely tasteful blues soloing works. It works like nature does, especially like electricity does…
These tonal structures are implied even when not stressed, by the way, so it’s very
important to have that structure deeply embedded in your mind just as well as you now
have the the 12 months of the year, so you can pick and choose when and how to
make your blues lead guitar really tasteful, even if you are playing with no
accompaniment. THE ACCOMPANIMENT IS IN YOUR MIND.......psyche! lol
Blues guitar lessons include learning about life and finding a way
to deeply express feelings in a unique and universally understood way.
It is understood universally because people get feelings from certain
sound vibrations and intervals. There are physical laws at work which
are easy to conquer when you open yourself to learning. For example,
there are 12 notes in music, just like 12 months in a year. You
can repeat the notes again as you go to the same 12 notes in a higher pitch,
just like we repeat the months again going into the next year into the future,
Or we can play the same 12 notes in a lower register just like we look at
last year's calendar. The structure of 12 notes REMAINS THE SAME and
fits with the basic structure of our lives in terms of time.
Another example of life integrating into music and back is that to be in a
key means that you are choosing 7 out of the 12 notes, so then we
are dealing with seven tones just like seven days in the week . Another
natural example for comprehension is that exploiting the 7 key notes is
similar to using the seven basic colors.
You only need to know what musical day it is NOT the date within the
year. Get it? Monday is depressing, Friday go out etc. week after week mostly
not caring about the exact date. There is an order to nature and also to blues
guitar. Learn the perfect natural order to the 12 bar blues, just like you have
learned the perfect order of the days in the week, and you will
always sound expressive and tasteful when applying various types of
phrasing and using decitones as common tones. This understanding saves
you years of wasted time when applied to your studies with a bona fide maestro.
Sequential fixed phrasing, for example, is when you play the same
series of notes over and over again while the changing chords
automatically alter the role of what you are playing. It is like a musical
landscape changing as the blues train goes by with you on it. :-)
This is how a blues guitar player can let the music do the work.
Sometimes staying on the same note while patiently waiting for the
chords to give THAT SAME NOTE different meanings, then adding
some unique effect while making a face gives the impression that you are
doing all the work when actually you are still playing the same note
and letting the music do the work.
This kind of knowledge awards the most fun because even though you
never know exactly what is going to happen as you free yourself to take
chances and improvise, if you use what you learned from your blues
guitar lessons, then whatever you play it will sound like you meant to do it
even if you didn't. lol It’s due to in large part to "demitone common tones".
2) FREE Webcam Guitar Lessons - no sign up - no obligation
Contact Paul for your free lessons: thecaliforniaguitarslinger@gmail.com
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Graham Nash vrs Leonard Bernstein
Are today's guitarists mostly a bunch of spineless copycats? Spartacus of Guitar says yes!
Just contact me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or email: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com or Skype: "guitarcrossroads" and we will do sessions everyday until you are getting on your feet.....FREE no obligation.
That's right, most are cheating copycats and to a lesser degree that includes me. We are so thoroughly indoctrinated into the commercial industry mentality, that musicians actually ask to become an indentured musical servant playing back industry standard structures like an organic jukebox. I'm sorry to say that this is pathetic. Even in my case, I can barely conceive of making an album completely free of the shackles of playing "acceptable" or "commercial" musical structures. Even the lead-in to songs is not for soloing the guitar, it's for DJs to make a "COMMERCIAL" over the beginning of your song. I rarely see anybody playing anything unique anymore, as I did back in the late 60s and early 70's. EVERYONE IS COPYING all the time knowingly or unknowingly at least 98% of the time these days!
In fairness many of the breakthroughs of electric guitar and the modern-day "Blues Key" has already been discovered, so it is harder to be unique nowadays. That is no reason to lay down and bow your head to the powers that be. For example, modern day anchormen basically do zero journalism, only say what they are told to say, and argue on the side they are being paid to argue for even when they know they are wrong. In other words the commercial television journalists are liars and they are people that probably shouldn't have children because they don't give a hoot about the kids in the world. Don't be a sellout! Publicists in the music industry are paid to teach the artists how to lie, empower their position, and disempower the fans.
Free yourself now, which is easy since it is you that has enslaved yourself. Imagine how ridiculous it would be for you to look at videos of yourself to mimic yourself speaking. lol This is essentially what is happening thousands of times removed with guitarists to the point where people are copying other people's rendition of other player's idiosyncrasies or even mistakes. Yes, by living as a copycat, you're sentencing yourself to a life of repeating other people's mistakes, when you should be breaking new territory for yourself and the kids in the world.
By the way, please excuse me because I was 15 years old at Woodstock when Crosby stills and Nash had their first,or technically second gig so I am an original fan, but
I am very disappointed in Graham Nash for being a 74-year-old man, who pontificates with reverse humility psychology instead of encouraging the youth. Yes, he wrote some great "folk songs" and was in vocal groups with nice harmonies who wrote folk songs with socially current messages. It is still folk music though, in other words meant to be played by folks in folksy situations. He talks like he's Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic with the Vienna boys choir performing works of art that have stood the test of time for hundreds of years.
I take nothing away from Mr. Nash as being one of the top folk singer songwriters of the electric folk music era. The difference however is not that Leonard Bernstein was more musically advanced and a historically great musical scholar, or that Graham Nash is one of the most successful folk songwriters ever.....
The difference is that Leonard Bernstein was continually empowering kids through education programs. He encouraged everyone that music was the language that brings people together and it is the children that can bring a better future for the world through the social benefits of music. In Graham Nash's defense, he is not alone in that most artists will have been similarly emotionally exploited for their narcissism and hypomania, especially ones that make as much money as he does. In other words I'm saying that in a sense musically he never grew up, and his priorities are deeply narcissistic. (aren't we all) We need him to encourage us to excel and study instead of making comments like, "I was so courageous to leave the Hollies".
I understand hearing this from a young man just getting a career going saying what their publicist and record company tells them to say, but for Graham Nash to talk like that at 74 years old shows how even if you make hundreds of millions of dollars, if you don't break out of your own personal musical slavery you will be destined to repeat yourself over and over again until you decline and become absurd. Let's give Graham a break here and just say that in these revival shows is pathetic to see, for example the "Four Freshmen" hobbling on stage with their walkers.
You can be perfect now. All it takes is being in the right context, not lying to yourself or accepting other people's lies as truths, and no matter how simple the task, to perform it perfectly. As the great breakthrough guitarist Johnny Hiland says, "Make every note count". Spartacus says that you can't imagine how many frontiers of musical landscapes are waiting for you to discover if only you would unlock the shackles of your self induced mental musical slavery. You weren't born a musical slave so there is no reason to voluntarily enslave yourself. I have all the master keys to the musical infrastructures that are used today and I will give you free sessions until you get on your feet. So no excuses, either be in illusion thinking that you feel better that way, or you can take the key and free yourself...
One more thing about Graham Nash is that as one of the original fans of CSN, and to put my money where my mouth is, I would be delighted to consult with him at no charge in order to encourage his musical development. I have taught others in his "crowd" so I am not being ludicrous or disrespectful here, in fact I will teach ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE FREE! NOW!
Contact me now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or "guitarcrossroads" on Skype or email me at: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com so we can get started wtith no obligation. Thanks for your consideration. This offer is FREE :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmW2FNsQqM
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
You can "play perfect" now and always for real....
Are the mass of guitarists seeking the wrong treasure? Spartacus of guitar says yes!
Just contact me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or email: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com or Skype: "guitarcrossroads" and we will do sessions everyday until you are getting on your feet.....FREE no obligation.
Patronizing compliments keep the mass of guitarists in perpetual desire and illusion. Even when a simple observation is pointed out, mediocrity defends itself with the philosophy that, "It feels good to me".
I first started really making money as a guitar teacher is when I graduated from teaching kids in the building, to teaching adults that I got from ads in the Village Voice. I asked my Dad, who was a concert violinis, what I can do with these adult students many of which could play the guitar better than me. He said that I look older so no one will know that I'm only 17, and since students are already in the mindset of looking for an authority figure, as long as I realize that I probably know more than them musically, or something they don't know due to my many years in music boarding school. He said to have fun trying different creative exercises to fill the curriculum until I could actually play better.....
A young man came by for lessons and I had him close his eyes, put his fingers anywhere they felt like going on the fretboard, and pick whatever string he felt the way he felt like picking it. The object was to induce the "musical experience" by hearing the sounds as if they were classical contemporary improv. Well he loved it and he kept coming back. lol :-) His family was sending checks every two weeks, so I kept indulging him because all he wanted to do was for me to sort of help him meditate and do a sort of Ouija board way of playing. Like a Zen thing... remember I was a kid… LOL then the student told me that he was going back home for vacation. I started freaking out because the guy still couldn't actually play one song even after all those months, and I figured his parents would stop the checks for sure when they saw that he could not actually play a song. So each lesson until vacation I would try to talk him into learning chords and a song, to which he kept putting me off.
Finally it was week before vacation and I said, "Look you have got to learn a song, or your parents are not going to send money!"
He opened his eyes wide and yelled, "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MY MUSIC. MY MUSIC IS FEELING MUSIC."
At that point I figured it was the end of the checks LOL however the lesson I learned was worth thousands of times the money that could have lost. The lesson is that it is far too easy to regress into your subjective feelings about what you are playing, rather than facing the realities of what is actually coming out of your instrument.
Sure, when I'm riding the train I can close my eyes and hear a Symphony of sounds in complete surroundsound and feel sound too. lol So what then is the reason for making good music? There are plenty of recordings to listen and feel...... Are we playing more for our own personal feeling and gratification? Or for a knowledgeable sophisticated audience? Or are we playing for the few who have mastered the skill you express to achieve? Whatever it is fine, but avoid mixing them up, because when you do it becomes less coherent all the way down the production line. In other words, make up your mind when you are singing in the shower or performing for the Queen, and stop making excuses for not perfecting your skill like, "I just want to strum around the campfire" when you secretly have a burning desire to shred in a stadium....
If you want to feel good, drink a beer and play your feeling music. lol If you want to be a real musician, then screw your feelings and your mental illness of puffing up over mediocrity enabling fans and friends who are only trying to control you with their unsubstantiad subjected uninformed comments, and start caring about what is really possible musically. I mean fluid, conscious, comprehensive, coherent self-expression in full fluency of the language of music. Actually meaning what you say musically because you in fact understand what you were saying musically, instead of copying gibberish and feeling "tasteful" because you're finally feeling some of the common tones even in the demi-tones while bending.
The best drummer that I had the amazing privilege to study up close and personal, Buddy Rich, said that his reason for being frank in rehearsals rather than patronizing to musicians feelings because his focus was on the audience.
So you were feeling. Big deal! You don't even need music for that. The question is not how you respond to your own music, but how the truly knowledgeable and experienced musicians critiques your music, or how even technology rates he aspects of your playing. Any monkey can clap for you. They don't even have to be human, they can literally be monkeys (I like to sing to dogs) lol and if that's all you REALLY WANT then ignore your studies and the realities about guitar and let it be what it is - speculative fun... But don't try to play it off like you're the real deal, only because playing it off prevents you from how easy it could be starting now to be the REAL DEAL within objectively control parameters of quality, however simple the presentation. In other words you don't have to be advanced to be perfect, but you do have to not be in musical illusion.
Contact me now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or "guitarcrossroads" on Skype or email me at: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com so we can get started wtith no obligation. Thanks for your consideration. This offer is FREE :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmW2FNsQqM
Just contact me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or email: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com or Skype: "guitarcrossroads" and we will do sessions everyday until you are getting on your feet.....FREE no obligation.
Patronizing compliments keep the mass of guitarists in perpetual desire and illusion. Even when a simple observation is pointed out, mediocrity defends itself with the philosophy that, "It feels good to me".
I first started really making money as a guitar teacher is when I graduated from teaching kids in the building, to teaching adults that I got from ads in the Village Voice. I asked my Dad, who was a concert violinis, what I can do with these adult students many of which could play the guitar better than me. He said that I look older so no one will know that I'm only 17, and since students are already in the mindset of looking for an authority figure, as long as I realize that I probably know more than them musically, or something they don't know due to my many years in music boarding school. He said to have fun trying different creative exercises to fill the curriculum until I could actually play better.....
A young man came by for lessons and I had him close his eyes, put his fingers anywhere they felt like going on the fretboard, and pick whatever string he felt the way he felt like picking it. The object was to induce the "musical experience" by hearing the sounds as if they were classical contemporary improv. Well he loved it and he kept coming back. lol :-) His family was sending checks every two weeks, so I kept indulging him because all he wanted to do was for me to sort of help him meditate and do a sort of Ouija board way of playing. Like a Zen thing... remember I was a kid… LOL then the student told me that he was going back home for vacation. I started freaking out because the guy still couldn't actually play one song even after all those months, and I figured his parents would stop the checks for sure when they saw that he could not actually play a song. So each lesson until vacation I would try to talk him into learning chords and a song, to which he kept putting me off.
Finally it was week before vacation and I said, "Look you have got to learn a song, or your parents are not going to send money!"
He opened his eyes wide and yelled, "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MY MUSIC. MY MUSIC IS FEELING MUSIC."
At that point I figured it was the end of the checks LOL however the lesson I learned was worth thousands of times the money that could have lost. The lesson is that it is far too easy to regress into your subjective feelings about what you are playing, rather than facing the realities of what is actually coming out of your instrument.
Sure, when I'm riding the train I can close my eyes and hear a Symphony of sounds in complete surroundsound and feel sound too. lol So what then is the reason for making good music? There are plenty of recordings to listen and feel...... Are we playing more for our own personal feeling and gratification? Or for a knowledgeable sophisticated audience? Or are we playing for the few who have mastered the skill you express to achieve? Whatever it is fine, but avoid mixing them up, because when you do it becomes less coherent all the way down the production line. In other words, make up your mind when you are singing in the shower or performing for the Queen, and stop making excuses for not perfecting your skill like, "I just want to strum around the campfire" when you secretly have a burning desire to shred in a stadium....
If you want to feel good, drink a beer and play your feeling music. lol If you want to be a real musician, then screw your feelings and your mental illness of puffing up over mediocrity enabling fans and friends who are only trying to control you with their unsubstantiad subjected uninformed comments, and start caring about what is really possible musically. I mean fluid, conscious, comprehensive, coherent self-expression in full fluency of the language of music. Actually meaning what you say musically because you in fact understand what you were saying musically, instead of copying gibberish and feeling "tasteful" because you're finally feeling some of the common tones even in the demi-tones while bending.
The best drummer that I had the amazing privilege to study up close and personal, Buddy Rich, said that his reason for being frank in rehearsals rather than patronizing to musicians feelings because his focus was on the audience.
So you were feeling. Big deal! You don't even need music for that. The question is not how you respond to your own music, but how the truly knowledgeable and experienced musicians critiques your music, or how even technology rates he aspects of your playing. Any monkey can clap for you. They don't even have to be human, they can literally be monkeys (I like to sing to dogs) lol and if that's all you REALLY WANT then ignore your studies and the realities about guitar and let it be what it is - speculative fun... But don't try to play it off like you're the real deal, only because playing it off prevents you from how easy it could be starting now to be the REAL DEAL within objectively control parameters of quality, however simple the presentation. In other words you don't have to be advanced to be perfect, but you do have to not be in musical illusion.
Contact me now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or "guitarcrossroads" on Skype or email me at: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com so we can get started wtith no obligation. Thanks for your consideration. This offer is FREE :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmW2FNsQqM
Friday, November 18, 2016
Put the Guitar Down to Become a Guitar Virtuoso
Improve quicker by not playing guitar? Spartacus of Guitar says yes!
Just contact me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or email: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com or Skype: "guitarcrossroads" and we will do sessions everyday until you are getting on your feet.....FREE no obligation.
Music does not come from your fingers, rather it comes from your mental faculties and goes through your fingers. The first REAL musical knowledge and the same kind of training that it took for you to learn to walk must be imparted and integrated into those faculties before true musical cohesion and comprehension can happen.
Picking up your guitar and making sounds, monkey see monkey do copying, and "acting out" or emoting while making sounds on the guitar will not help you to master this skill of the instrument very much. What propels you into greatness is to start with you, your faculties, and then to mentally train those faculties to understand the "physics" of music.
TIME and it's illusions is what turns a musician into a magician. There is a musical time speed barrier in which you play so fast that it becomes slow again. In any case, whether you are playing simplistic beginner music or advanced music, in order to make real magic on guitar you must be thinking in a mindset that includes at least four times as many notes as are being played. In other words EVERYONE has to play very fast if they want to play properly for real. For someone who has mastered this skill, when they play slow it feels like a scene from Superboy. As he runs fast the camera shows everything slowing down as the effect and similarly when someone who can easily fucntion at 170bpm slows the tempo to 90, there is the feeling that you have plenty of time to elaborate expression before the next chord change. This mastery of musical time manipulation is the only way to achieve perfect rhythmic articulation. Without the skill of musical time mastery you just don't have enough time to add the nuances and inflections which create clearly articulated phrasings.
Tablature and reading music has its place. That place is for historical and specific performance purposes. To play your music from tablature is like going through school looking over the shoulder of other student's notes of their projects and trying to make your way by copying them. What makes it worse is that in guitar music many of the original composers had little idea what they were playing at the time because maybe they were intoxicated, or they just got a lucky groove, and now tons of players are copying their interesting mistakes. lol The irony is that the music they are copying for the most part is easy to play from ear, once the ear is educated. Copying and memorizing is no way to live...
One of the biggest problems of copying and practicing on your own without supervision is that students continually repeat mistakes that they are not even aware of. In fact most students go to guitar lessons to "pick the brain" rather than seeking help in accomplishing mastery of the fundamentals. This behavior correlates loosely to o.c.d., add, and a myriad of mental syndromes. THE GREAT NEWS is that mastery of this skill of guitar playing actually helps you to keep your mental syndromes and idiosyncrasies in check because in order to have a fully transcendent orgasmic breakthrough guitar experience that is objectively and verifiably factually great, one must learn from the real bona fide maestros how to organize and control your faculties.
Fortunately I use technology to stimulate exponential improvement in students therefore saving decades of speculative drudgery and wasted practice.....and it really works quickly.....
Contact me now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or "guitarcrossroads" on Skype or email me at: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com so we can get started wtith no obligation. Thanks for your consideration. This offer is FREE :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmW2FNsQqM
Just contact me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or email: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com or Skype: "guitarcrossroads" and we will do sessions everyday until you are getting on your feet.....FREE no obligation.
Music does not come from your fingers, rather it comes from your mental faculties and goes through your fingers. The first REAL musical knowledge and the same kind of training that it took for you to learn to walk must be imparted and integrated into those faculties before true musical cohesion and comprehension can happen.
Picking up your guitar and making sounds, monkey see monkey do copying, and "acting out" or emoting while making sounds on the guitar will not help you to master this skill of the instrument very much. What propels you into greatness is to start with you, your faculties, and then to mentally train those faculties to understand the "physics" of music.
TIME and it's illusions is what turns a musician into a magician. There is a musical time speed barrier in which you play so fast that it becomes slow again. In any case, whether you are playing simplistic beginner music or advanced music, in order to make real magic on guitar you must be thinking in a mindset that includes at least four times as many notes as are being played. In other words EVERYONE has to play very fast if they want to play properly for real. For someone who has mastered this skill, when they play slow it feels like a scene from Superboy. As he runs fast the camera shows everything slowing down as the effect and similarly when someone who can easily fucntion at 170bpm slows the tempo to 90, there is the feeling that you have plenty of time to elaborate expression before the next chord change. This mastery of musical time manipulation is the only way to achieve perfect rhythmic articulation. Without the skill of musical time mastery you just don't have enough time to add the nuances and inflections which create clearly articulated phrasings.
Tablature and reading music has its place. That place is for historical and specific performance purposes. To play your music from tablature is like going through school looking over the shoulder of other student's notes of their projects and trying to make your way by copying them. What makes it worse is that in guitar music many of the original composers had little idea what they were playing at the time because maybe they were intoxicated, or they just got a lucky groove, and now tons of players are copying their interesting mistakes. lol The irony is that the music they are copying for the most part is easy to play from ear, once the ear is educated. Copying and memorizing is no way to live...
One of the biggest problems of copying and practicing on your own without supervision is that students continually repeat mistakes that they are not even aware of. In fact most students go to guitar lessons to "pick the brain" rather than seeking help in accomplishing mastery of the fundamentals. This behavior correlates loosely to o.c.d., add, and a myriad of mental syndromes. THE GREAT NEWS is that mastery of this skill of guitar playing actually helps you to keep your mental syndromes and idiosyncrasies in check because in order to have a fully transcendent orgasmic breakthrough guitar experience that is objectively and verifiably factually great, one must learn from the real bona fide maestros how to organize and control your faculties.
Fortunately I use technology to stimulate exponential improvement in students therefore saving decades of speculative drudgery and wasted practice.....and it really works quickly.....
Contact me now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or "guitarcrossroads" on Skype or email me at: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com so we can get started wtith no obligation. Thanks for your consideration. This offer is FREE :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmW2FNsQqM
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Practice is Bad for You?
Does "practicing" deprive you of musical fluency and prepare you for life of slavery? Spartacus of Guitar says yes!
Just contact me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or email: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com or Skype: "guitarcrossroads" and we will do sessions everyday until you are getting on your feet.....FREE no obligation.
So many people are using their so-called practice time to either dig themselves into an even deeper ditch of idiosyncratic nervous habits, or they are mechanically repeating over and over some composition in the way that clearly demonstrates their lack of comprehension. To a trained ear this sounds "dorkey". So many millions of wasted virtuosos have spent their lives this way, COPYING guitar music to the lucridous level that THIS COPYING includes "tourette's syndrome-ish nervous twitches". They are weird unconsciously generated habitual sounds that the player mentally compensates for and barely hears, and are unacceptable unless being used as part of a historical piece. Copying mistakes is the guitar equivalent of guys dressing up in Civil War uniforms, camping out, and shooting off muskets while being in the delusion of thinking that they are modern day soldiers.
A worldwide musical emergency is upon us! One reason for guitar student disempowerment is because music is not seen as a yes or no, binary process when in fact the aspect of music that is a fluid personal expression that is new and therefore considered creative is a very small percentage of the musical process. In fact core tempo accounts for 50% of what music basically is, so there is no reason for millions of people to be so frustrated that they actually start defending their mistakes and rationalized suffering when all they need to do is seriously learn some REAL fundamentals. I am not referring to the garbage that is handed a music store guitar lesson programs on the net, all meant to sustain their own teaching program, rather than actually enlightened and liberating future virtuosos. lol The bad "karma" for this kind of denial and exploitation of students reveals itself in their obvious mediocrity and lack of fluency, as he painstakingly trying to remember what some "stoned out" musician happen to play in a song recorded decades before. They can obsess over their guitar collections and their trivia all they want, but they are slaves as well as the students that they put into musical mental constructs that retard and the strict the true mastery of what is actually a simply designed instrument.
The best attitude is to look at music as something that exists, which is a finite and an exact science. It does not exist as notes under piece of paper, or composition in someone's head, or some kind of personal transcendent musical experience. It exists as part of nature's math… similar to the calendar in that yearly patterns existed before we could use them precisely. It took having the right provable factual information before humans developed our current mastery of time. There is no need for denial, superstition, overly depending on your personal feeling while in the process of playing, and delusional wishful thinking. There is only a need to contact me so I can help you, as I was helped by many great musical maestros. This is amazing news of FREEDOM!
I am here to give you that expotential guitar freedom, but you must take it.....
Contact me now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or "guitarcrossroads" on Skype or email me at: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com so we can get started wtith no obligation. Thanks for your consideration. This offer is FREE :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmW2FNsQqM
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Guitar Players Revolt!
Is there a truly great guitarist inside of you? Spartacus of Guitar says yes! :-)
Just contact me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or email: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com or Skype: "guitarcrossroads" and we will do sessions everyday until you are getting on your feet.....FREE no obligation.
I have stopped posting specific solutions, because almost everyone wants to take it very cheaply as all they want to do is copy mainly, so when you ask them to actually "speak musically" all they do is argue and defend their delusions and deny... it is lonely to enter the world of "musical fluency" but it is only hard because there are some things that MUST be done ALWAYS which are not "comfortable".
Most people are so programmed by publicity myths and the disempowering music industry (including music instrument sales) that they either don't believe that they can be great, or once they understand that I have somehow ended up in the unique position where I can actually guide them to greatness on the guitar, still they are AFRAID OF THEIR OWN GREATNESS so they "bench themselves" with excuses... then they walk around playing music that sounds like the equivelant of a guy from another country, who barely speaks english trying to be "cool". He sounds cool to his friends in the tourist bus who don't speak English, but once he leaves the bus, it is obvious to all people who speak fluent English that he does not understand the full meaning of what he is saying because he says common expressions using the wrong punchline or NO punchline.
This situation exists because the public has been carefully, step by step, programmed into musical disempowerment, or into the empowerment of illusion.... like indulging in mediocre playing, or playing incoherently, and having friends and audiences, (even huge paying audiences) patronize them through screaming and clapping......
THE ONLY REASON why I mention the big names that I teach or have worked with is for YOU readers and students, so that you will believe in yourself to be every bit as capable as those successful musicians and more, The real enjoyment is in expotental improvement..... it is up to you.... live in the world of speculation, never really knowing.... or join the world of musical reality in which case you might find yourself having much more to bring to the table than you thought.
Contact me now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or "guitarcrossroads" on Skype or email me at: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com so we can get started wtith no obligation. Thanks for your consideration. This offer is FREE no obligation. :-)
Just contact me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or email: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com or Skype: "guitarcrossroads" and we will do sessions everyday until you are getting on your feet.....FREE no obligation.
I have stopped posting specific solutions, because almost everyone wants to take it very cheaply as all they want to do is copy mainly, so when you ask them to actually "speak musically" all they do is argue and defend their delusions and deny... it is lonely to enter the world of "musical fluency" but it is only hard because there are some things that MUST be done ALWAYS which are not "comfortable".
Most people are so programmed by publicity myths and the disempowering music industry (including music instrument sales) that they either don't believe that they can be great, or once they understand that I have somehow ended up in the unique position where I can actually guide them to greatness on the guitar, still they are AFRAID OF THEIR OWN GREATNESS so they "bench themselves" with excuses... then they walk around playing music that sounds like the equivelant of a guy from another country, who barely speaks english trying to be "cool". He sounds cool to his friends in the tourist bus who don't speak English, but once he leaves the bus, it is obvious to all people who speak fluent English that he does not understand the full meaning of what he is saying because he says common expressions using the wrong punchline or NO punchline.
This situation exists because the public has been carefully, step by step, programmed into musical disempowerment, or into the empowerment of illusion.... like indulging in mediocre playing, or playing incoherently, and having friends and audiences, (even huge paying audiences) patronize them through screaming and clapping......
THE ONLY REASON why I mention the big names that I teach or have worked with is for YOU readers and students, so that you will believe in yourself to be every bit as capable as those successful musicians and more, The real enjoyment is in expotental improvement..... it is up to you.... live in the world of speculation, never really knowing.... or join the world of musical reality in which case you might find yourself having much more to bring to the table than you thought.
Contact me now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or "guitarcrossroads" on Skype or email me at: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com so we can get started wtith no obligation. Thanks for your consideration. This offer is FREE no obligation. :-)
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