Confessions of a Guitar Tutor
Here you will find articles and media written by John and as featured in various publications over the last sixteen years. These resources are free for any guitar students to read, download and practice with. You are encouraged to share, but please provide appropriate links and credit to the author.
Content is being collated and updated periodically.
All media is ©JohnWilmshurst 2001-2024
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Articles
- 6 May 2011 Have Guitar Lessons to Save Money
- 17 Sept 2012 Good Repetition
- 20 Aug 2017 Teaching Your Child | Guitar Tuition for Kids
- 20 Aug 2017 Learn twice as fast – Practice at half-speed!!
- 20 Aug 2017 Timing is everything…
- 9 Sept 2017 Guitar Lessons for Christmas - A Bit of Advice...
- 10 Sept 2017 How Many Guitar Lessons Do I Need?
- 6 Jun 2019 How much do I need to practice?
- 6 Jun 2019 if you practice at half-speed, you’ll learn twice as quickly
- 6 Jun 2019 Rotosound British Steels Review (2011) [Updated 2024]
- 6 Jun 2019 Music Exams - Published in 2011, Guitar Player Magazine
- 6 Jun 2019 How to be in a Band part 1
- 2 Sept 2024 A Brief Guide to Guitar Strings: Types, Materials, and Choosing the Best for Your Sound
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Backing Tracks
- 20 Aug 2017 Free drum beats to keep you in time
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Chords
- 24 Aug 2017 How to read the chord and scale diagrams
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Technique
- 25 Aug 2017 Alternate Picking [Part 1]
- 9 Sept 2017 Alternate Picking [Part 2]
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Theory
- 25 Aug 2017 Musical Alphabet | Chromatic Scale pt 1
Good Repetition
Of course, this means that by repeating something you can commit it to long term memory, which is useful when we want to remember lyrics or melodies. Sometimes though, when performing technique for example, ‘brain memory’ just isn’t fast enough and is prone to forgetfulness so we need to employ something I call ‘finger memory’.