String Love Guitar Lessons

Here at StringLove Guitar, I am all about advancing an approach to the guitar that I call “Love Guitar.”

While most guitar methods focus on fretboard theory and finger movement mechanics, the Love Guitar takes things further. Instead of focusing solely on moving your fingers, Love Guitar involves every single aspect of the guitar player working in complete harmony in service of the creation of the most beautiful music possible.

We’re taking baby steps, and today, the baby step we’re taking involves a new way of approaching guitar practice.

If your work on the guitar can fuel your personal development, then the question is: how do we make the most out of everything we do on the guitar in order to maximize the benefit we receive to our overall state of being?

I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but the modern world is extremely busy. There’s a lot going on. Cars whizzing by every which way, airplanes rumbling overhead, 7 billion people clustered together on this tiny planet with blinking lights and chirping gadgets and way too much to do.

What the world needs, globally, is more and more amazing, centered, compassionate human beings. We don’t just need peace; we need harmony.

If you play the guitar, then you can help out big time with expanding that harmony.

What do you do when you practice the guitar?

At a simple level, you learn how to do new things you couldn’t do before you practiced. The goal of practice is improvement.

But here’s the big secret for learning to play music: you have to slow down. If you rush through your practice sessions without really digging in and taking each movement slowly and deliberately, you’ll likely build sloppiness into your guitar playing.

This is the first major insight that comes with the Love Guitar approach to guitar: practice is all about focus, concentration and sharpening your attention. The degree to which you make your movements conscious is the degree to which you will be able to play more and more complicated music on the guitar.

In order to make movements conscious, you have to slow down until you can actually follow every single little thing you try to do with your fingers on the guitar. If you don’t really dig in and infuse every move with total awareness and consciousness, then your fingers won’t know exactly what to do, and mistakes will be your constant guitar playing companions.

Practicing the guitar is a form of meditation. It requires focus, concentration, attention, slowness and a willingness to pause and listen to the silence as you consistently prune your movements down to the most economical, efficient and powerful movements possible.

In the Love Guitar approach, we embrace the fact that guitar practice is tantamount to a form of meditation. We embrace guitar practice as a type of spiritual practice, which is to say: we open ourselves up to the possibility that practicing the guitar can make us a better human being.

This is a huge subject, and I’m still just touching on the surface of these topics, but what I’m hoping you’re starting to see is how much room there is for you to embrace your guitar playing on every level of your being in order to help you become ever happier, kinder and more peaceful.

Your positive transformation into a more and more loving musician is the primary aim of Love Guitar.