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		<title>Coming in 2013</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming in 2013, I&#8217;ll be announcing a new program focused on creating a clear direct path to guitar learning and music theory.  In talking with many guitarists of all skill levels, I&#8217;ve found that as guitarists we seem to struggle more than most to connect music theory to our fretboards in a meaningful way. It [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Coming in 2013, I&#8217;ll be announcing a new program focused on creating a clear direct path to guitar learning and music theory.  In talking with many guitarists of all skill levels, I&#8217;ve found that as guitarists we seem to struggle more than most to connect music theory to our fretboards in a meaningful way.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t have to be this way&#8230;</p>
<p>Although there is no magic switch to becoming a great guitarist, there are definitely <em>more effective ways</em> to achieve your goals as a guitarist. (Want to learn more?  <a href="http://eepurl.com/tgI4r">Subscribe and receive updates about this program</a>)<br />
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<p>For example&#8230;</p>
<p>Did you know that with a basic understanding of music theory, chord books are basically useless?  Or, that of the thousands of chords possible on guitar only a handfull are necessary to play at a high level?</p>
<p>Playing guitar and music has the potential to bring us a sense of joy, meaning and focus to our lives.  It also has the potential to leave us feeling inadequate and frustrated.  I plan to show you how to achieve the former and avoid the latter by weeding out the time wasters and <em>focusing on what&#8217;s effective</em>.</p>
<p>We all may ultimately have different musical goals, however, we all strive to share music for the enjoyment of others and <em>also</em> to have them enjoy our playing at the same time.  I am passionate about uncovering and sharing with others the simple methods of achieving this.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been asking guitarists what their biggest challenges are in developing as a guitarists.  Here are some of the responses I&#8217;ve recived:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve climbed quite a distance up the ladder in terms of playing but the base is unstable because I never integrated musical theory with fretboard navigation. I studied rudiments and introductory harmony but it is all keyboard stuff. I find it hard to translate onto a proper instrument. (Guitar of course)&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;My biggest challenge would be finding time to practice&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Keeping time, finding the notes, playing expressively&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;difficulty navigating a jazz tune that asks for many changes&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;I want to know more about the guitar in general&#8230;just a basic understanding of how chords relate to one another.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;to have better command of the fretboard.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;stage fright&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Does all this sound similar?  We all experience these feelings as guitarists at one time or another.  This comment I believe truly gets at the heart of the matter:</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to reduce the knowledge mountain to manageable bites. Scales, modes, pentatonics, major, minor, whole tone, diminished, altered. Getting all this stuff into &#8216;applicable&#8217; status seems like an impossible dream.</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s really how most of us feel a lot of the time, isn&#8217;t it?  The good news is, it <em>is</em> possible.  And that is be the goal of this program.  I will show you how to sift through seemingly unsurmountable &#8220;mountain&#8221; of information, get rid of the time-wasters, ditch the useless chord books, turn-off boring youtube videos, and show you exactly what to do (and not to do) and how to <em>enjoy the process</em> so you stay on track.</p>
<p>Want to learn more and receive updates about this program?</p>
<p><a href="http://eepurl.com/tgI4r">Sign up here and I&#8217;ll make sure you don&#8217;t miss a thing</a></p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Gary</p>
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