Guitar Principles Online School

Jamie's course is the best thing to ever happen to my guitar playing. I was self-taught with only a handful of lessons throughout the 35 years I have been struggling to play the guitar properly. I had so much ingrained tension I didn't even notice it was there any longer. I was also experiencing some chronic pain because of my poor technique and posture. After discovering Jamie's course, she has corrected my poor form and relieved not only the pain involved in playing but also the unnecessary tension that was holding me back from developing as a musician. If you are considering this course, wonder no longer, it will remove the barriers to your learning and development as a guitar player. Since having purchased her written content and enrolled in the online live courses my playing and technique have improved beyond what I ever imagined. She gives just enough material to keep you busy and developing, but not so much you're overwhelmed. That is one thing I appreciate about the course. In the past, when I took lessons, they always expected you to learn too much in a week's time. Better yet, she not only exposes your weaknesses, but explains why you have them, and more importantly how to fix them! She gives you a practice routine, with the right approach, and a set of skills for problem solving anything that you may run into while learning or playing the guitar. She has a whole mind-body approach, which in my opinion is the only way to teach anything. She's not just dealing with physical motions, but she also deals with attitudes, emotions, and psychology for a very complete and spiritual approach. Now when I learn new material I have a specific approach to learning it properly and if I run into problems I know how to solve them. This is a great feeling as a guitar player who has struggled for a very long time to get out the music that I've always had inside me, but was not able to communicate properly through my instrument. I highly recommend signing up with the Guitar Principles for complete development and a great time! Don't Look Back, you won't regret it!

If only I had started this training years ago! When I first read about The Principles everything Jamie was saying made sense. However I'd already been learning for a couple of years and although I knew I was struggling, deluded myself that I would start to intuitively play correctly with experience and the longer I played for. Fast forward two years later and I hadn't made anywhere near the kind of progress I'd hoped for. Learning from books, videos, traditional teaching methods and lessons, although useful to some extent just hasn't worked for me and so I finally decided to learn these essential foundations. I started a Stage 1 a few weeks ago and I can see and feel the difference already. It helps that Jamie is also very patient with her students and assesses our individual progress, always advising and showing us how to do things correctly. Part of what put me off before was that I didn't like the idea of having to slow everything down and do non musical exercises that weren't that exciting. What does excite me though is knowing that by doing this training with Jamie I will progress much faster, playing correctly and be able to play the music I love. So I highly recommend to anybody thinking about starting any training with Jamie to not waste time like I did!

The class videos are priceless love it I have been trying to learn the last couple of years through YouTube. I am so glad I found you. Thank you sooooo much!!!

Jamie this is Adonis and I took guitar lessons many moons ago ending up as a total tension mess with a white knuckles grip on my guitar. Your teaching methods are so unique and are creating the basic foundations for me to be able to actually make progress on the proper way to play the guitar. Although I am still trying to unlearn the bad habits and relearn the correct methods I am making positive progress. Thank you for your teaching approach and teaching in a way to put students on the proper path to accomplish this very difficult instrument. I owe you

Jamie only wants one thing: for you to become the best guitar player you can be. This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to control their fingers, play without any unneeded tension, and practice intelligently so that you can improve at the maximum rate. If you're a beginner who wants to avoid creating any bad habits, or if you're an experienced player who is no longer improving, please consider studying with Jamie.

I started playing guitar in high school. I bought a nylon string guitar and took classical lessons for a couple of years. When a buddy wanted to start a band I bought his old Fender guitar and joined him, a bass player, and a drummer in a short-lived group. After I got married I bought a used Yamaha dreadnaught (which I still have). My son, as a teenager, developed an interest in playing, so he and I went to guitar lessons together. Still, I didn't become a great player - at times I wasn't even a good player. There were periods where I didn't play at all - for years at a time. The biggest issues for me were that, no matter how much effort I put in, I made many mistakes and I didn't seem to get noticeably better. I evetually developed carpal tunnel syndrome in my left hand and had surgery. The carpal tunnel was better but my playing was not. When I retired, I picked up the guitar again. I even signed up for an online course. I thought it was very good and I learned a lot but I noticed when I did the assignments that I kept making the same errors over and over again. This prompted me to search through my library of technique books until I found the one I was looking for - "The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar" which I had purchased in 1999 but didn't do much with. I discovered the author, Jamie Andreas, was now teaching online classes and I quickly signed up. Jamie has done this for a long time and has a great plan for how to put a foundation in place. There are exercises, such as fingering a note with the index finger, then the ring finger and moving up and down the strings at about the 7th fret. At first blush it looks "easy" and "trivial". It's only when you get into it that you realize it is important to do it the same way every time. That involves looking at finger and body tension and even the position of one finger in relation to all the others. I found that doing this "easy" exercise correctly was *hard*. Sticking to it, however, has really paid off. I wish I had known about this when I first took lessons or at least that I had paid better attention when I first bought the Priciples book in 1999! Nobody else talks about these things. If you're intrigued, look at some of Jamie's YouTube videos becaue they address these issues. I'm still in the Stage 1 process, which is designed to provide a good foundation for everything else. I learned my posture had been a problem - not only how I sat and held the guitar but also how I held my left and right hands. I'm now much more consistent in my playing - my hand position is much better and the consistency has made it easier to learn and to play. If I make a mistake, I use the techniques Jamie has demonstrated to work through it so I don't keep repeating it. And being more consistent, I don't make new mistakes *each* time through a piece because of sloppy technique. I feel much more confident in playing - and I have faith that I'll be able to work through the rough spots successfully. I now look forward to picking up the guitar each day. The lessons are a challenge, not a burden.