Guitar Conspiracy Theories

Hello all,

Just purchased the guitar conspiracy and the sepr workbook. How exactly should I use these in conjunction?

Cheers

Also, lol I’m being annoying at this point probably, should I do all the beginning spiders first in the sepr then move on to the next beginning topic or should I concentrate on one spider until my bpms are up and more time on other beginning topics in the workbook?

I’m thinking that you’re frustrated because there is no set lesson pattern – there’s no “Step One – Do whatever”, but I find that sort of stucture unhelpful when learning guitar. The exercises at each level are (mostly) equally important.

What you need to do is practice everything from a particular section, or pick out a few things from a section that you feel you need to practice the most. For example, when I was a fresh-out-the-blocks beginner I spent most of my time practicing spyders and chords. That isn’t to say I neglected ear training, Rhythm exercises or Chord Progression exercises though. When I was comfortable I practiced some of the songs.

This blog series (http://spytunes.com/category/beginner) was released after I’d finished beginner, but it’s very good if you are working on Beginner!

Also, the general usage of the material is:

Conspiracy: EXPLAINS how music works on the guitar.
Online Exercises (http://spytunes.com/practice-guitar): Teach you to APPLY music on guitar.
SEPR: Keeps TRACK of your progress.

Also, I made this for anyone who wants structure:

http://spytunes.com/news/free-18-week-beginner-guitar-course

I kind of feel for the beginning ear training, there isn’t enough info. Unless that is, I didn’t pick something up in the conspiracy pdf. We are given mp3 files to listen to, so we can pick out intervals, but what if your ear is so bad you can’t pick out what that first note is that’s being played? Like, what if a person can’t figure out what key. Knowing the key, for a beginner at least, would give you an idea of where your heading. That is, since you seem to be counting upwards in the intervals.

On another note, hearing the first note, then trying to find it on the guitar will work just the same. However, there isn’t even a mention of trying to do that to know where your start position should be. Although this may be common sense to someone, it may not be to someone else