Music can also lower anxiety and improve physical well-being! Just think about it.doesn't music make you feel happy? Music education builds social skills, creates discipline, leads to higher self-confidence, builds hand-eye coordination skills, leads to academic improvement, improves retention and cognitive reasoning, and allows kids to express themselves. Music education can benefit ALL kids, and the benefits are endless! Encouraging children to sing or play an instrument can potentially improve many aspects of their lives. ![]() There are many battles to overcome, and sometimes, as parents, we have to seek alternative methods. I'm not John Fahey yet, but I am thoroughly pleased with the CSGA method and highly recommend it to anyone who want to learn the guitar the right way.Raising children is tough. Plus, the videos are great, the instruction easy to understand, the downloadable material indispensable and the responsiveness of the staff whenever I have a question…remarkable. The Center Stage Guitar Academy's crawl-before-you-walk methodology follows that thought process. If there is one thing I have learned in life it is not to take shortcuts, especially when learning an instrument. In the process my fretting fingers became limber, calloused and without pain! By that time, about a month and a half in to the lessons, I was playing single note runs and clean double octave scales at 150 bpm up and down the fretboard. With CSGA I didn't play a chord until lesson eight. For a drummer, that would be like learning beats without first practicing rudiments. Most of the other sites start with learning chords. The key difference from the other guitar playing sites is CSGA's building block approach to learning. I took the free lesson, was impressed, and signed up for the ongoing series. I tried a bunch of guitar learning web sites/youtube videos and then found The Center Stage Guitar Academy. Finding myself with a lot of free time, I bought a guitar, and decided to check the internet for information. I played drums in a rock and roll band until I was thirty five and my son is a professional jazz pianist…but, I always regretted not learning how to play guitar. I'm a 63 year old, retired marketing executive. SSG Everett Ritenour III - Fort Bragg, NC I finally understand the guitar well enough to have that drive to play for hours without sleep. I will forever be grateful to the center stage guitar academy, but more importantly to Bryan Billhimer. Your teaching method is perfect, your customer service is unmatched and I can say this because I received a personalized email 12 hours after I submitted my song request, and your videos give my everyday noodling a purpose. The best part is that I am only on module 2!!! I can say with confidence that not only do I know scales but more importantly I understand why they are used, how they are used, and the magic behind them. I can honestly say that I have learned more about guitar in THREE days then I have learned in 15 years. I have finished module 1 and I am half way through module 2. ![]() I have even taken in depth notes on all the videos so far and thats something I never even did in grade school haha. I have never been this excited about anything guitar related since I was a kid. I started the videos from lesson one, I did not let my ego get to me and even though I am a very experienced self taught player I gave you the respect of starting from video one. I can assure you that I will be remaining a student, even after my year subscription is expired. ![]() Well this is not the case with center stage guitar academy AT ALL! I have toyed with the idea of online lessons but was concerned that even though I have the ability to learn at my own pace that it may be hard to learn from a recorded video. I have been on the fence about taking lessons because as an active duty Soldier my hours are never consistent ( I have been in the Army for 8 years and two deployments has hindered my ability to take lessons on a schedule). I have always been able to hold my own but I have never been able to grasp just how music works. My name is Everett Ritenour and I have been playing guitar on and off again for about 15 years.
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