Mindful Guitar
- April 24, 2025Important Guitar Technique observation: Minimize Left Hand Pressure for Efficiency and ExpressionA short video on minimizing left-hand pressure on the classical guitar — playing with less effort for better efficiency, endurance and expression.
- May 13, 2021A short video addressing the left hand issue in guitar playing. Hope it helps someone!A short video lesson on a common left-hand issue in classical guitar playing, and how to correct it.
- October 22, 2019Q&A with guitarist Yuri Liberzon for The Hidden Gem Series Arts/SV360 performanceQuestions: 1. What is Classical Guitar? 2. Could you describe your personal approach to performing? 3. Who is your favorite composer? 4. How do you see the role of arts in Silicon Valley? Details and…
- August 12, 2019How to make a guitar support for travel guitar by my student Mark PaskinStudent Mark Paskin's illustrated guide to building a DIY guitar support for the FrameWorks pracStick travel guitar.
- June 23, 2019How to deal with squeaks on guitarHere I offer some thoughts from my experience on how to avoid/minimize squeaks on wound strings. I find it to be an issue that is often not given enough attention to and hope these ideas can be helpfu…
- April 2, 2019Left hand micro adjustmentsWhen I need to play two consecutive notes (on the same string) with one fret in between, I have to choose between stretching my fingers to play the higher note, or to lift all fingers and play the sec…
- March 27, 2019Etude No. 1 by H. Villa-Lobos Right Hand PatternThe right-hand pattern for Villa-Lobos's Étude No. 1, illustrated.