It's a New Year of Guitar
Added 2025-01-03 18:26:28 +0000 UTCHere is a message for everyone. Let's get you completely autonomous. That's the goal.
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Hi Ian (& your fellow followers). Firstly thank you for the incredible repository of guitar knowledge you have created. The beauty of learning is the journey, and we all travel at a pace of our own choosing. When I started as a pre schooler too many decades ago on piano, I would discover tuition was several parallel paths - namely Practical (developing the skills of playing), Theory (the science of music), and later Perception (the art of listening to and understanding others creations). Whilst the learning journey is an amalgam of all three, I find that one’s rate progress along each of those paths is varied. Part of the reason for that is (as you say) how much we connect with the means of delivery provided by those that guide us down those pathways in the learning process. Yes there are any amount of YouTube content Guitar avenues as resources to assist learning, but what keeps me as a long term Stich Method subscriber is that what You provide simultaneously allows me to connect with your content delivery to best advance in all three areas of musicality. Sadly, the limited time I invest in “practice playing” means my virtuosity navigating the fret board lags way behind the theoretical grasp of how to play that has developed over the years through the power of spaced repetition reinforcing concepts and knowledge by looking at things from different angles and perspectives - as you do! The reality is that, armed with that … when I do spend time practicing, progress comes more readily and rapidly, plus because there is always relevant lessons to revisit. In that way, the learning actually becomes a continuing conversation - and I eagerly await each and every next lesson and practices discussion content. Thanks again Ian.
Roobard
2025-01-17 21:41:17 +0000 UTCWhat do you like most about that guitar?
Bruce Switzer
2025-01-06 23:17:14 +0000 UTCGreat message Ian. I cannot tell you how many starter tool kits or primers I have downloaded for free from numerous sources that pretty much all have the same thing to say. I want to spend more time in 2025 with my guitar in hand without a cheat sheet just simply connecting to my instrument. Cheers!
Jared Bilton
2025-01-03 20:45:33 +0000 UTCI agree, great message. Looking forward to having a well thought out, simplified process on mastering the fundamentals. Makes all the sense in the world to me!
Mark Collier
2025-01-03 19:16:14 +0000 UTCBy the way, did you do this with Casey Jones because of the modal changes? Meaning you’re forcing us out of the one mode standard song writing to be able to seamlessly play over any progression despite modal changes? Just curious if that was the pedagogical intent?
Geoffrey Crouse
2025-01-03 18:36:21 +0000 UTCGreat message. I’ve spent the last 3 weeks working caged chord and penatonics. Came back to it with your recent Casey Jones lessons 1-4. Somehow that made it all click for me. Now I can find penatonic patterns and chord tones up and down the neck based on that insight. Still mastering minors! So much fun. It’s not learning by rote as so many lessons are, but actually understanding music structures and how they map to your guitar. Thank you Stitch.
Geoffrey Crouse
2025-01-03 18:34:11 +0000 UTCHNY Ian - great message !
Jim
2025-01-03 18:28:45 +0000 UTC
