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Master & Learn Guitar – Master Guitar in 3 Simple Steps

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No matter how long you’ve played your six string for, at some point, every guitar player has a choice to make. Either you can decide to play just for fun, or, you can decide to get really serious and decide to master and learn guitar.  If this is you, congratulations, you are about to embark on a fantastic, challenging and yet rewarding musical journey.

There are many different ways to master and learn guitar. I would like to share with you three simple steps that will allow you to focus your quest in pursuing the guitar more seriously.

1.  Find a guitar instructor
2.  Increase your practice schedule
3.  Practice in modules

1.  Find a guitar instructor:  It is of utmost importance that if you’re going to get serious in learning how to master and learn guitar; that you find an instructor that has played the guitar for more than 10 years. If your teacher has a musical education behind them, even better.  Having someone to tutor you on guitar will allow you to stay focused and learn proper technique more quickly than if you were to try learning on your own. The guitar instructor will also be able to challenge your playing abilities and give you homework that will allow you to improve your playing skills

2.  Increase your practice schedule:  If you are a casual player who practices occasionally, this will need to stop. I generally recommend to a beginner guitar player a bare minimum of two times a week for a half hour. In the case of a serious musician wanting to master and learn guitar, I recommend a minimum of 3 to 5 times a week for an hour. Increasing your practice schedule will allow you more time to practice all of the various techniques such as  scales, chords, and arpeggios that you will be learning on the guitar.

3.  Practice in modules:  Now that you’ve decided to increase your practice times; you will want to make sure that you stay focused during these times practice. It can be very easy to get distracted, or play what you have already learned in the past. The secret to staying focused is to practice in module units. Module units are mini 10 minute learning periods of time. For example, during a one hour practice session you’ll warm-up for 10 minutes, practice chords for 10 minutes, scales for another 10, arpeggios for another 10, a new song for 10 more minutes, and end off with some sight reading practice.  Remember, if you’re serious about learning how to master and learn guitar your modular practice times are not the time to play whatever you want to.  Save playtime on your instrument as a reward for your hours worth of practice.

How to Find the Best Learning Language Software Review Information on the Internet!

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If you are committed towards taking the next step in learning a new language, the best thing you can possibly do to improve your chances of becoming fluent in a language is to read the best learning language software reviews! You’re probably thinking yeah, “that’s what I am trying to do but where do I find an unbiased review on a learning language software?” They’re actually all over the Internet. But finding out which ones are unbiased is the tricky part. In this review, I am going to give you three tips that will allow you to get the best information you need to know from the many learning language software reviews on the Internet.

Stick with the facts!

When I started doing a lot of research on different Spanish teaching software, it wasn’t long before my head was spinning to no end! I often found myself waiting for days to get simple replies from their customer support groups and the information I found on their websites were in a lot of cases biased. If the information did not seem biased, there was no way to prove it. Which left me doing a lot of second-guessing. So I learned to stick with the facts! When I stick to the facts, I am taking very little interest in customer reviews or personal opinions that the company may have on their products. I want to see what the product does and what’s in it! For instance, what types of features does the software have? Are these the features that can help me learn? Is there a money back guarantee? These are the types of questions you need to ask yourself every time you look at a learning language software site. The facts should be your deal breakers. If the software does not have what I am looking for, I should make a note of that and go on to the next learning language software.

Look for customer reviews away from the product site!

I found one of the most helpful sources of information in my search for a great learning language software review on amazon.com! Go to amazon.com and input the name of that software you’re interested in, in the search box. Several listings for the product will show up with dozens and sometime hundreds of customer reviews. This is a wealth of information that you can read and get a good insight into the software’s teaching ability without actually buying it.

Do a Google search!

Take a few minutes to search for the software on Google. When you do find a website reviewing the software be sure to look for the bad reports as well as the good. I promise that there is not one software available to you that is perfect. When a review site is openly posting the bad remarks along with the good you can be pretty confident that the review you are reading is honest and probably contains some very good information for you! Be sure to take these tips into consideration when you do your next search for learning language software reviews.