Ron Dickson
- Aug 26, 2022
- 2 min
Immediate Gratification v’s Delayed Gratification.
Everyone likes immediate gratification, the smile from a job well done. Delayed gratification requires more patience and is often a...
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Ron Dickson
- Jun 28, 2022
- 2 min
How to learn better Part 3
How do we get the material stored in our brains back out? We have a great storage capacity as humans. However, we often struggle to get...
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Ron Dickson
- Jun 21, 2022
- 2 min
How to learn better Part 2
How do we get material into our brains better? It is one of the many questions that anyone studying asks frequently. The answer is...
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Ron Dickson
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
How to learn better Part 1
Learning is a skill that comes naturally to everyone. However, it doesn’t always go well when we decide to learn deliberately. As a...
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Ron Dickson
- Jun 7, 2022
- 2 min
Strings the wrong way round
I have several guitars with Floyd Rose style tremolo systems, and one of the comments I get frequently is that I have put my strings on...
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Ron Dickson
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
Developing Rhythm Content for Lessons
Almost everyone understands that Rhythm is one of the essential parts of music; what is not appreciated is how difficult learning and...
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Ron Dickson
- Apr 12, 2022
- 2 min
Splitting everything apart
One of the most challenging aspects of learning the guitar is the discipline of splitting everything apart to work on each aspect of what...
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Ron Dickson
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
Learn the function of notes within a chord part 6
Putting it together, we can utilise each box and create the correct chord. With a little practice, we no longer are stuck when we see a...
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Ron Dickson
- Mar 29, 2022
- 2 min
Learn the function of notes within a chord part 5
The last “box” to look at is the one for the 5th In this “box”, we can have one of three notes, the b5 (or diminished 5th), the 5 (or...
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Ron Dickson
- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min
Learn the function of notes within a chord part 4
We have covered the “box” for the 3rd and the “add” chords where we have a space in the box where the 6th or 7th resides. This time, we...
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