Just two bars a day!
An advanced training collection that lets you experience daily improvement!!
The surest way to improve is to "continue to practice high-quality music without straining yourself." This book is a new edition of the best-selling "365 Days of Basic Acoustic Guitar Training!", which systematizes this absolute rule.
The practice examples in this book are "just two bars a day." These small improvements function as the following "short-, medium-, and long-term growth strategies."
●Roadmap to Growth
・Short-Term Strategy (1 Day): Experience daily improvement with easy-to-remember 2-bar practice examples.
・Medium-Term Strategy (1 Week): Master one theme per week.
・Long-Term Strategy (1 Year): Master all the techniques needed for acoustic guitar in 52 weeks.
The author, who has worked on numerous hit instructional books, reveals a wealth of theory-backed practice methods! Another feature is that it allows you to efficiently master the practice of picking, fingerpicking, arpeggios, cutting, and even jazz and blues, which tend to be limited when learning on your own. It's truly a masterpiece of daily training!
In addition, the model performances available online feature a variable streaming function that allows you to change the playback speed between 0.5 and 2 times the normal speed. You can also download the audio, so you can listen anywhere. Use technology to your advantage when practicing. One year from now, your ideal sound will naturally flow from your fingertips every day!
[CONTENTS]
◎Week 1: Mechanical Horizontal Movement Training
◎Week 2: Mastering the Metronome
◎Week 3: Mechanical Vertical Movement Training
◎Week 4: Smooth 3-Finger Picking
◎Week 5: Stable Alternate Picking
◎Week 6: Strengthening the Back-of-the-Rhythm!!
◎Week 7: Mastering 8-Beat Strokes
◎Week 8: Mastering 4-Finger Picking in Bossa Nova
◎Week 9: Understanding the Notes on the Fingerboard with the Major Scale
◎Week 10: Improving 3-Finger Accuracy
◎Week 11: Wide Stretching Using the Left Hand to the Maximum
◎Week 12: Eliminating Waste and Making Smooth Chord Changes
◎Week 13: Strengthening Right-Hand Sensation with 3-Finger Jumping!
◎Week 14: Improve your expressiveness with the thumb apoyando technique!
◎Week 15: Play smooth arpeggios using four fingers!
◎Week 16: Find common notes in chord forms!
◎Week 17: Strengthen your joints to improve your left hand flexibility!
◎Week 18: Strengthen your triplet technique!
◎Week 19: 16-beat cutting!
◎Week 20: Strengthen your hammering and pulling techniques!
◎Week 21: Get your groove on with major pentatonics!
◎Week 22: Training to eliminate the fear of shuffles
◎Week 23: Essential for singing and playing! Polyphonic backing
◎Week 24: Improve your technique with country phrases!
◎Week 25: Training for unconventional rhythms!
◎Week 26: Intensive three-finger training on the high strings!
◎Week 27: Intensive 3-finger training on the bass strings!
◎Week 28: Increase left-hand stability with legato playing!
◎Week 29: Focused economy picking week!
◎Week 30: Play the minor pentatonic scale to your heart's content!
◎Week 31: Incorporating hammer-ons and pull-offs into chords
◎Week 32: Mastering syncopation
◎Week 33: Folk-style 3-finger chords with an emphasis on bass
◎Week 34: A practical approach to chords and arpeggios
◎Week 35: Mastering 16-beat cutting
◎Week 36: Taking on Dorian and Mixolydian chords
◎Week 37: Carter Family picking special!
◎Week 38: Strengthening your string-skipping arpeggios!
◎Week 39: Improve your right hand precision with a classical approach
◎Week 40: Jazz-style 4/4 backing
◎Week 41: Master the blues feeling!
◎Week 42: Funky training with single-note mutes!
◎Week 43: Go wild with jazzy chords!
◎Week 44: Stroke combination technique training!
◎Week 45: Strengthen your right hand with sweep picking on the 1st through 3rd strings
◎Week 46: Further strengthen your right hand with sweep picking on the 1st through 4th strings!
◎Week 47: Hone your rhythmic sense with odd-time signature training!
◎Week 48: Super challenging! Cutting with triplets
◎Week 49: Clever jazz-style backing
◎Week 50: Tapping technique!
◎Week 51: Tricky plays using harmonics!
Week 52: Rhythmic training incorporating body slaps
Day 365: Final advice