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    Barre Chords Unlocked
    Barre Chords Unlocked
    Barre Chords Unlocked
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    Barre Chords Unlocked

    By Peter Inglis

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    What will we learn in this book?
    How to play barre chords easily and without strain.

    Who is the book for?
    This book will help three main categories of guitarist:
    1. Beginners.
    2.Frustrated guitarists who want to get the guitar out of the closet and have another crack at it.
    3.People who wish to avoid strain injury.

    This book took over 40 years to write! Or to be more accurate, it took me over 40 years of playing the guitar to get a conscious inventory of the barre chord technique, something I had learned within a few months of starting the guitar.

    Why should that be so? Aren't barre chords an essential part of guitar technique? Yes, they certainly are. And they are also the reason most people (wisely) give up on the instrument after about 6 months.

    I first documented 'the process' of how to play the barre chord back in the 1990s. Being very fortunate to have martial arts and Alexander Technique instruction when still a teenager, the barre chord came fairly easy to me. By talking about the 'gesture of expansion' I thought I had it all covered. Those who have read my earlier books will remember how little information I thought was needed to adequately explain the activity.

    It was only recently that my explorations of the Feldenkrais Method led me to make conscious the connections between certain movements I had learned in the martial art Wing Chun, and the practice of the barre chord.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Inglis
    Release dateMar 24, 2015
    ISBN9781311651525
    Barre Chords Unlocked
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    Peter Inglis

    Peter is the Principal of the Inglis Academy in Sydney, Australia, where people come to develop their literacy in art and music.*-* ART *-* Peter's art workshops use accelerated learning techniques to enable beginners to paint masterworks by Van Gogh and Monet in their first lesson!*-* MUSIC *-* Peter's guitar performances, workshops and publications cover 400 years of Western music.

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      This was an interesting read on playing barre chords. If nothing else it will give you a different thought process on playing them and make you aware of how your hand and finger placement and tension can affect playing a barre chord.

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    Barre Chords Unlocked - Peter Inglis

    Barre Chords Unlocked (Inglis Academy: Keys to Guitar #5)

    Edition 1.17 | Author & Publisher: Peter Inglis.

    Smashwords ISBN: 9781311651525 | For information about Educational Licenses please contact the author. | Copyright Notice: All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced or transmitted, or utilised in any form without written permission from the publisher, except as covered by fair use provisions for the purpose of review.

    For over four decades Peter Inglis has performed professionally in styles of music ranging from country & western to rock and pop, jazz and classical, and in venues ranging from the Sydney Opera House and the Art Gallery of N.S.W. to open air concerts in the Australian outback.

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