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The Erudite Guitarist

Chadwick Becks

Showing the art of learning the classical guitar.

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Then the student...

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Scales Are Not Exercises

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The Mistake Happens Before the Mistake

Every musician knows the experience. There is a passage in the piece that causes trouble. It may be a shift, a scale run, a barre chord, a memory transition, or simply a place where mistakes have occurred often enough that it has acquired a...

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