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Summit Guitar School parents/students…

I hope everyone is having a good start to the week. I have been planning on pushing out a practice challenge for a little while. I have noticed that a lot of students have gotten out of the habit of practicing regularly. I totally understand this but I want to get everyone back on track with this practice challenge. 

We know that without practice it is hard to progress.

 

So this is my effort as a teacher to get everyone on the same page with practicing. 

I am looking for students to practice 4-6 times a week for at least 20 minutes each day. 

Here are the details on the winter practice challenge.

The 6 week practice challenge will start on February 1st and end on March 15th.

Rules:

1. You must log your practice time on the My Music Staff practice log. (If you need your log in for this again please respond and let me know.) Once you log in to my music staff you can easily see where you log practice time on your home page. (again let me know if you have trouble with this)

2. Parents  will be asked to verify students logged practice time. Adult students I will take your word for it. NO CHEATING!!

3.  You must be working on some sort of scale/scales and some sort of song and or new technique during this practice time. I will be discussing what students will be working on for the 6 weeks in their upcoming lessons. 

 

Now for the prizes!!!

1st prize: 

$100 Guitar Center Gift Card

2nd prize:

$75 Guitar Center Gift Card 

3rd prize: 

$50 Guitar Center Gift Card

 

Please let me know if you have any questions… I will be happy to answer them. 

Reminder: This starts on February 1st!

We have merch!!!

With the launch of our latest beginner guitar online couse, we decided to open our own merch shop!  

These designs are completely custom and super cool! Please check them out. Let me know if you have any questions about any of the products.  I would be more than happy to chat!

This class changes everything!

This class is completely different from any other beginner guitar course online.

After 20 years of playing and teaching guitar professionally, I finally put my own curriculum into an online course.

This class is meant for anyone wanting to get started playing the guitar the right way. I have successfully taught over 500 beginner guitar players with this new method.

One of the things that makes this course completely different from anything else on line is the practice play alongs. This is not a backing track to practice with. The play alongs are videos of me playing the songs and exercises at different speeds. During the practice play alongs I coach you through the material and give you tips on how to improve along the way!

Students will be playing songs within the first week of starting this course. Each section of the curriculum leads the student to a song. Students will learn the key movements needed to be able to play their favorite songs. This course leaves out all of the stuff you don’t need to know which will save you time and money.

The class comes with a full downloadable E-Book to help you get through the material… You’ll also have access to my email to be able to ask any questions you may have.

You can buy the class risk free as well! It comes with a 30 day money back guarantee!!

Check out Beginner Guitar Essentials Here!!!!

Have you ever wanted to sound like John Mayer or Jimi Hendrix? It really doesn’t matter who your favorite guitar player is… The best of the best know things you don’t know… One of the big topics novice guitar players have trouble grasping is chord inversions…

Chord inversions are the doorway to sounding more like your favorite guitar players. Learning your open chords and barre chords are just the beginning… Yes! There is so much more to learn about chords… By learning your chord inversions you can play more tastefully up the neck, you will be able to play more chords with less movement, and you will be able to outline chords with individual notes. By learning to outline the notes in each chord you will be able to play more tastefully. But how do you learn to do this? There are some steps you have to take to be able to make this happen. The first step is to commit to learning it. After that you will need to learn some basic music theory.

I am working on creating some content that will help fast track some basic theory knowledge. Please subscribe to the newsletter for updates on premium content. In the meantime you can short cut that stuff and start memorizing the triad inversion patterns. Some would say this is working backwards but I do not think so… Because the guitar is so centered around patterns it is a great use of time to start memorizing these shapes…

I have created a 3 part lesson series that covers these triad inversion shapes as well has how to use them. Here is the first lesson in the series. I hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions don’t hesitate to send me an email… Heck, send me an email just say hi! That’s fine as well. Let me know what kind of lessons you’d like to see in the future!

Have a great day and enjoy this free lesson.

Brett

Here is the first lesson on triad inversions.

If you are into guitar you know that there are limitless resources online. Whether you are just starting out or you are a seasoned player there is literally something for everyone. I think the one thing that I love to see more than anything is guitar players and teachers building each other up.

There are endless YouTube channels and Instagram pages that are either teaching guitar or simply showcasing ideas and skills. Whatever your flavor is, you can find something to satisfy your pallet. Social media platforms have become the ideal place to showcase your skills as a musician. Notice that first line of that sentence. Social media, is meant to be social. It isn’t solely meant for putting up content in hopes of getting a gig or finding a student. We as musicians of all walks of life should be building one another up no matter the skill set. A lot of people on Instagram are simply showing their progress as new guitar players and some are seasoned professionals. I believe that we should be building up guitar players of all skill levels within the community. If we start looking at these platforms as places that we can build up and encourage people I think we would see a huge shift in the community. These platforms are built to be self satisfying, meaning that they encourage us to post and check our phones constantly for likes and comments.

Imagine this…

Instead of picking up our phones to check on views, likes, and comments we picked up our phones with the sole purpose of building other guitar players up. I am a firm believer in adding value and encouraging guitar players and musicians wherever they are in their musical journey. One comment to a beginner can mean way more and have a huge impact that you or I may never see. Let’s attempt to be a light in the self satisfying world of these social platforms. I can promise you that adding a positive or encouraging comment on someone’s video will only add to your own happiness as well as impact on the world.

I challenge you to make a positive or encouraging comment on 3 accounts next week. Try it out and let me know how it went. Have a great week and check out our latest lesson on our YouTube channel.

Subscribe to our email list for 5 free strumming pattern lessons.

For beginner guitar players strumming patterns open up a whole new world. Learning a few key strumming patterns can really unlock the possibilities for most beginner to intermediate guitar players. There are several short concepts that can really make it easy for guitar players to add some new strumming patterns to their arsenal. Songs are written at different tempos and with different time signatures which can make it difficult for some guitar players to figure out what kind of strumming pattern to use. These lessons will help you figure out exactly what kind of strumming pattern you should use for almost any song. I have developed a simple formula that will help you understand what strumming pattern to use on any song.

By subscribing to our email list you will get access to these 5 strumming pattern lessons as well as our monthly newsletter. The newsletter is always a bonus lesson that applies to beginner and intermediate guitar players. Each month I will cover a concept that I see guitar students consistently struggling with. Some months the lesson will be on a popular new song. In those lessons I will break down each section, strumming pattern, and riff. Thanks for following along with me on your guitar journey. I hope I can be of some help to you all. Let me know in the comments how you think we are doing and what topics you’d like to see me do a lesson on in the future.

Thanks,

Brett