Playing the blues?
Posted by Mark Winegar on August 1, 2008
My friends know I love playing the guitar. I’m known for sitting outside my office at Mount Marty College and playing for hours. Sometimes students bring their kids in so I can play them a tune. It’s a great way to connect with people. I’m not very good but I do love to play.
The great thing about the guitar is every guitarist I know is still learning. We’ve been using the World Wide Web to help us for some time too.
You might be thinking vodcasts are just good for learning theory but not skills. You’d be WRONG! Check out this vod to see how its done.
Now there’s a model for life long learning!
Note how the teacher first demonstrates what she wants the student to do. Next she explains each step in detail and finally allows an opportunity for practice. The beauty of having her do this on a vod is that we can watch it over again if we need to. We can pause it to work out how to play a new chord or back it up to see a technique again. And we can do it anytime we want!
Where’s my guitar?
