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Month: August 2011
Rule of 18
Ever wonder how frets are spaced?
Or why they get closer and closer as they go up the fret board?
What’s known as the Rule of 18 does this which is based on work done by Pythagoras.
18 is just the rounded off number. The real number is 17.817. Your total string length (nut to bridge distance) is divided by this number and that gives you the distance from the nut to the first fret. Then the remaining distance, 1st fret to bridge, is divided by 17.817. This gives the placement of the 2nd fret. This goes on all the way up the neck making a smaller and smaller spacing each time.
Children’s lessons
Learning to play a musical instrument can have a great impact on your child’s development, including both social and intellectual benefits. If your teen loves to play Guitar Hero or Rock Band, they will certainly love how exciting and achievable learning to play a real guitar can be!
John LaGreca has years of experience teaching beginning guitarists. His students learn the fundamentals of guitar as they actually play along to some of their favorite rock songs starting with their first few lessons.
The LaGreca teaching method employs the student’s own tastes and musical interests to fine-tune lessons tailored to the unique interests and capabilities of your child. Instead of forcing kids to learn tedious, uninteresting exercises, John motivates and excites his younger students by teaching them the basics of picking, chords, strumming, and reading tabulature in the context of tunes chosen by the student!
John is not only a patient, enthusiastic and highly qualified teacher, he is also a working musician; for a young person interested in music there’s absolutely no better teacher than a practicing professional.
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