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Many players have handicapped fingers that struggle to play. It begins in the beginning. My "Foundation Ex" give full, basic functionality to all students.

Here is an interesting video of a student working on these exercises, and making a common error with his 3rd finger. It is reacting with tension each time 4 is used. If not corrected, this would be a big, and "forever" problem............

http://tinyurl.com/yco4at4

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I have just posted my examination of this question........really the most important question for guitar students, in my group "The Student Advocate"

http://acousticguitarclub.ning.com/group/thestudentadvocate/foru

I would like to hear your thoughts!

Jamie
www.guitarprinciples.com

I often make the point to students that paying attention to when fingers need to come off is as important as paying attention to when they need to go on the strings.

I just had a student of my classical foundation course post a video that illustrates this nicely. He usually masters every piece flawlessly.....but in the last piece by Sor, he messes up a passage toward the end. He doesn't know it (yet), but it is because particulars fingers are not coming off at the right time.

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I have a student who, like many, was wasting time by getting too hung up on each piece in the Shearer book (which I use as a textbook for my classical course). Even after he had done a good job, he kept working at it to try to get it as fast as he heard somebody else play it

That is fine, but he was neglecting going forward, which is very important at this stage.

So I have been pushing him. He sent me a video of his results after 2 weeks with 2 new pieces. They are quite good. Here they are ar… Continue

A student was wondering why he keeps messing up the beginning of his pieces when trying to play for others. I gave him a simple exercise to perform which showed him the reason very quickly!

Read it...........http://tinyurl.com/yj5jgfd