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Spectrum of Touch

As a younger player, I tried too hard. In those early efforts, I fretted like I meant to embed the strings into the board. It was more perception, than consideration. If I pressed hard enough, maybe the listener would know I really meant it. As we grow as players, we realize the spectrum of touch. For every tone played, there [...]

Style Lens

Some guitar players know what style they will play soon after  learning to walk, talk, and bend tones. Most of us, however, go through  stages of growth which express themselves in various stylistic idioms,  at different times, in ordinary and extraordinary ways. With the understanding that there are exceptions, many style choices  are determined by age (i.e. rock and punk), [...]

Holographic CAGED

This is the most advanced thing I’ve discovered for standard tuning. This can seem kind of heavy, so circling back to this after digging in on basic CAGED isn’t a bad notion. These cycles holographic because they provide a whole picture & creates a ’3-dimensional’ view to how standard tuning chord forms work. I’m not necessarily sure if the sentence before [...]

Integral Model

Overview by jamey Faulkner based on work of Ken Wilber. The Integral Model can also be referred to as the Integral Map, Integral Theory, AQAL Integral Framework, or just AQAL (pronounced aw-qwal), short for ‘all-quadrants, all-levels’. The Model is a map which provides a framework for any discipline or area of study, including music, art, science, medicine, among many others. [...]

Integral Thoughts

In this article, I am sharing some views about creatively approaching guitar studies. So far we have explored the Integral Model, & designed an introductory Integral Guitar Model. Like everything, my ideas about the model & its musical applications are developing – always developing. I sincerely hope you will take a look at the system & see what [...]