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Want to Sound Sophisticated and More Interesting?
Improvisers begin by learning scales and by learning how to emphasize roots, 3rds, and 5ths. Having mastered this, improvisers are...
Minimizing Finger Movement
Many guitarists have what might be described as fly away fingers. Their fretting fingers, when not actively pressing a fret, pull far...
My Conversation with B.B. King
I had a chance to talk to B.B. King in his tour bus after one of his shows. He asked me if I thought he would make it. I laughed and told...
How Best to Practice, Pt. 2: Interleaved Practice
Interleaved practice is the process of switching back and forth between practice tasks in a single session. for instance, you might...
How Best to Practice, Pt. 1: Perfect Practice Makes Perfect?
Practice makes perfect, right? Well, not really. There is better advice. Perfect practice makes perfect, right? Well, this was what...
Bend it Like Beck
One of the things I love to do most when playing electric guitar is string bending. When you bend the string you alter its pitch in...
Why should we value music?
Over the course of the last few weeks I've been asking professional musicians, amateur musicians, music students, music promoters,...
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Steiger Guitar Academy
61 Henry Street, St. Catharines, Ontario
msteigermusic@gmail.com
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