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    Total Guitar Technique: Essential Lessons & Playing Mechanics (Book + Online Bonus)
    Total Guitar Technique: Essential Lessons & Playing Mechanics (Book + Online Bonus)
    Total Guitar Technique: Essential Lessons & Playing Mechanics (Book + Online Bonus)
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    Total Guitar Technique: Essential Lessons & Playing Mechanics (Book + Online Bonus)

    By Luke Zecchin

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    GUITAR FUNDAMENTALS MADE EASY

    Feeling stuck on the guitar? Guitar players are usually unaware of the poor habits that cripple their progress. There's no shortage of books and courses on playing chords, scales, riffs, and songs. The problem is that these often overlook one simple truth: How you play is more important than what you play. All the tips, licks, and playing tricks won't help much if your fundamental technique works against you. How can you improve if you're focused on the wrong things?

    Total Guitar Technique is the culmination of over 25 years playing experience, trial and error, observation, and study. This book focuses on the critical things that most others leave out. It explains how your natural playing ability can be nurtured and enhanced to improve accuracy, speed, and stamina. This guide outlines how to identify and overcome the unhelpful playing habits that stand between you and the player you want to be. From the basics of holding the guitar to the nuances of picking technique, this book provides a clear, concise, and easy-to-follow road map to effortless playing!

    ONLINE BONUS: This book is complete with online bonus material. It comes bundled with a companion website to enhance your learning experience. Extras include audio examples, backing tracks, bonus downloads, and more.

    Join thousands of students worldwide! Like easy-to-follow lessons, pro playing tips, and jam-packed value? You'll love learning from this international bestselling instructor.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuitarIQ.com
    Release dateNov 10, 2019
    ISBN9780648734901
    Total Guitar Technique: Essential Lessons & Playing Mechanics (Book + Online Bonus)
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    Luke Zecchin

    Having played for over 20 years, Luke Zecchin is an accomplished guitarist with a wealth of studio and live experience. Outside his work teaching music, Luke has toured extensively alongside renowned national and international acts, performing at everything from clubs, theaters, and festivals to various appearances on commercial radio and national television. Playing lead guitar, Luke has worked on projects with established international producers and engineers. He has been fortunate enough to see these collaborations break into both the Top 50 ARIA Album and Singles charts, having also received nationwide airplay and notable debuts on the Australian iTunes Rock charts. As the founder of GuitarIQ.com, Luke is dedicated to the education and coaching of guitar players all over the globe. With books available in over 100 countries worldwide, he has emerged as an international chart-topping author in his field. Luke continues to work as an author, educator, and musician from his project studio based in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. ​ Find him online at LukeZecchin.com.

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      Total Guitar Technique - Luke Zecchin

      Total Guitar Technique

      Total Guitar Technique

      Essential Lessons & Playing Mechanics

      Luke Zecchin

      GuitarIQ.com

      Copyright © 2019 Luke Zecchin

      ISBN: 978-0-6487349-0-1

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without express written consent from the author.

      Published by GuitarIQ.com

      Copyedited by Allister Thompson

      Proofread by Dan Foster

      Illustrated by Jasmin Zecchin

      The author and publisher have made every effort to ensure the information contained in this book is both relevant and accurate at the time of release. They accept no responsibility for any loss, injury, or inconvenience sustained by any person using this book or the information provided within it.

      Please Note: This guide was written to help improve your guitar playing technique. It isn’t intended as a substitute for any form of medical diagnosis, treatment, or therapy. The information provided in this handbook in no way constitutes professional medical advice. If you experience consistent pain or regular discomfort when playing guitar, please seek the advice of a qualified medical professional who can assist you personally with this issue.

      This book is dedicated to all who endure those solitary hours in the practice room, long days on the tour bus, and late nights at the recording studio.

      Getting lost on the guitar? Finally, fretboard memorization made easy!

      If you like this book, you’ll love our Fretboard Memorization Workshop! This online master class is your shortcut to demystifying the fretboard puzzle. Here you’ll be guided step-by-step through the key concepts, techniques, and exercises needed to master your entire fretboard—quickly and easily. These insights have helped thousands of guitar students worldwide!

      To learn more, head to LearnYourFretboard.com.

      Contents

      Preface

      Online Bonus Material

      Introduction

      1. FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

      Play It Comfortably

      Play It Accurately

      Play It Efficiently

      Play It Freely

      2. PLAYING POSITION

      Body Position

      Playing Mechanics

      Exercise 1

      Exercise 2

      3. LEFT-HAND TECHNIQUE

      Left-Hand Position

      Left-Hand Mechanics

      Exercise 3

      Exercise 4

      4. RIGHT-HAND TECHNIQUE

      Right-Hand Position

      Right-Hand Mechanics

      Exercise 5

      Exercise 6

      Final Thoughts

      Appendix

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      About the Author

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      Preface

      Welcome, and thank you for choosing Total Guitar Technique.

      When we begin learning guitar, the emphasis is often on what we do—not how we do it. We focus on learning new patterns, playing the right notes, avoiding the wrong notes, and trying to keep it all in time. Foundational concepts like body position, relaxed movement, and efficiency of motion are commonly overlooked in the battle to just get our fingers to go where we want them!

      The good news is, with some practice and persistence, what seemed so difficult at first becomes much easier. This initial struggle to produce something that sounded even vaguely musical slowly fades. The bad news is, the counterproductive playing habits we develop along the way don’t disappear so easily. Playing tendencies that we learn early on become the framework for everything we do on guitar. From the way we position our body to the mechanics of moving our hands, it’s very difficult to play with accuracy, speed, and consistency when our basic technique works against us.

      This handbook is a combination of personal experience, trial and error, observation, and study from more than 20 years of guitar playing. The further your playing advances, the more you realize that how you do something directly impacts what you can do. Even experienced guitar players can encounter all kinds of basic issues, simply because they’ve learned to view their limiting playing habits as normal.

      In this book,

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