Education: Guitar Playing - Technique vs. Feeling

Guitar Playing - Technique vs. Feeling - What's important?

Written by Edward D Cupler

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guitar. Practicing is; long hours, getting your fingers to work like precision machines that play each note perfectly without fail. Studying chords and scale theory with no more feeling than someone doing calculus. The goal is great playing. Just like a good quarterback needs to spend hours studying plays and practicing accurate passing so things come naturally during repparttar 143384

big game, a guitarist must spend hours developing good technique so things can come naturally during repparttar 143385

big gig.

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most obvious thing that comes to mind is speed. How fast can you blaze through your scales? Although this is a part of good technique, it is not repparttar 143387

only thing you should work on. Accurate string bending is also very important. You must train yourself to bend notes to pitch. Many amateur guitarists bend strings without accuracy, which makes their bends sound weak. Another thing that you should work on is repparttar 143388

relationship between chords and scales. Without understanding which chords belong to which scales, your playing can get lost very quickly. You should understand how to form your chords anywhere on repparttar 143389

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scale you're using. Check out repparttar 143391

Guitar Scales and Chord Triads lesson at Guitar Metal for a visual reference. Don't just memorize chord shapes. Show a man a chord, he plays one song, but teach a man how to make chords from scales and he can write his own songs. When practicing for speed and accuracy, know what your goal is. If you want to have repparttar 143392

ability to play at hyper speed, you'll need to focus more on scales and alternate picking techniques. Practicing them at slow speeds to find repparttar 143393

best technique and to eliminate anything that might be slowing you down. I also recommend using repparttar 143394

following video lessons "Speed Kills" and Speed Lives", both from Michael Angelo Batio. These videos are great for helping you to understand techniques for playing fast. However if your goal is to play a more bluesy rock style such as Angus Young, you will want to focus more on blues phrasing and bending. You still may need to slow things down to eliminate bad playing habits, but repparttar 143395

goal here would be crisp clean playing not necessarily speed, although some speed is important.

Edward D Cupler is the owner of guitar lessons website guitarmetal.com Offering free guitar lessons to beginners and advanced students. Ed is also the owner of Digitalgreys.com

The History of Orange County, California

Written by Southern Calilfornia Real Estate Agent John Middlebrook

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In 1833 repparttar Mexican government secularized all of repparttar 143383 California missions and took them away from control by repparttar 143384 church (Source). At this time repparttar 143385 mission system of California had ended. The Mexican government tried to revert repparttar 143386 land to American Indian control immediately (Source). However, once repparttar 143387 land was taken from repparttar 143388 church repparttar 143389 Spanish and Mexican governments and local factions fought for ownership of repparttar 143390 real estate in Southern California and surrounding regions. The American Indians were out numbered by ranchers from repparttar 143391 United States and Mexico who forced repparttar 143392 American Indians into slavery on their growing private ranches. Some American Indians managed to retreat away from repparttar 143393 ranch settlements into repparttar 143394 mountains.

The Mexican government's control of Orange County remained passive between 1821-1846. Mexican Governor Juan B. Alvarado gave repparttar 143395 following land owners these lands:

In 1837 Rancho Cienega de las Ranas was granted to José Sepúlveda.
In 1837 San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana was granted to Juan Pacífico Ontiveros.
In 1841 Rancho Bolsa Chica was granted to Joaquín Ruiz.
in 1842 La Bolsa de San Joaquín was granted to Sepúlveda.
in 1842 Rancho Cañada de Los Alisos was granted to José Serrano.
in 1842 Rancho Niguel was granted to José Ávila.
In 1843 Mexican Governor Manuel Micheltorena gave Rios tract to Santiago Rios.
In 1845 Rancho Potrero Los Piños was granted to Don Juan Forster who also bought San Juan Capistrano Mission for his own personal residence.
In 1846 Rancho Boca de la Playa was granted to Emigdio Vejar and Rancho Lomas de Santiago was granted to Teodocio Yorba, both by Mexican Governor Pío Pico.

While Mexico controlled California, large rancher owners oversaw development of repparttar 143398 commercial property, homes and land in Orange County for their own commerce. During that time an influx of United States Americans from repparttar 143399 Midwest and Eastern United States began to colonize repparttar 143400 West. There were disturbances between Mexican provincial administrators and repparttar 143401 United States citizens. Soon thereafter repparttar 143402 United States and Mexico were in a war. The US - Mexican War lasted from 1846 to 1848. The Mexican government fled as US troops advanced and on February 2, 1848 repparttar 143403 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in which repparttar 143404 Mexican government sold 55% of its territory, including Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah for $15 million to compensate for war damages (Source). California became repparttar 143405 31st state of repparttar 143406 United States. A year later in 1849 repparttar 143407 California gold rush began. At this time Orange County was only a part of repparttar 143408 real estate in Los Angeles County (Source).

After California became part of repparttar 143409 US, any land owner who did not have paperwork for their ownership lost possession of their land. Most land owners lost their land since Spain and Mexico did not normally provide adequate paperwork to show proper boundaries for repparttar 143410 land in California. The US government took repparttar 143411 land and sold it back at very affordable rates to local farmers and pioneers from repparttar 143412 Eastern and Midwestern United States who came to California to dwell there.

In 1862, a horrendous set of natural disasters struck Orange County and changed everything. First a flood swept through repparttar 143413 region and set up repparttar 143414 perfect conditions for a massive plague academic which became a small pox outbreak that killed many Americans. Not long afterwards within repparttar 143415 same year a massive drought dried up all of Orange County crops and cattle ranches (Source). The once rich ranchers who received land from repparttar 143416 Mexican and Spanish government from before repparttar 143417 US - Mexico War lost all of their cattle and were forced into bankruptcy by huge interest rates set by merciless North American businessmen at a rate of 3% interest due per month on average (Source). Local farmers also went bankrupt and lost their land.

The rest of repparttar 143418 story had to be cut off in order to fit on this website, but it may be published elsewhere.

This history of Orange County, California, was part of an original research project by South California Real Estate Agent John-Robin Middlebrook posted June 11, 2005.

I love Southern California and am familiar with many of its landscapes from the beach to the mountains, from the LA Metro to Orange County, uptown, downtown, Beverly Hills or Huntington Beach. I grew up both surfing, snowboarding, playing football and baseball. I have also traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

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