You & Your Guitar: Limitless Learning Through Guided Self-Study
What does it take to be a really good guitarist? With quality instructional books and videos, a good teacher and lots of practice, anyone can learn to play. But most people never progress beyond a certain level, while others seem unstoppable. What is the missing piece?
It’s easy to conclude that those who become masters of the guitar benefit from good luck or good genes. But the truth is, their success is built on specific skills. And now, all of those skills are within your reach with You & Your Guitar, a uniquely complete and guided self-study.
Consider the following list of things the great guitarists do:
- Memorize with ease
- Problem-solve with confidence
- Connect the ear and the fretboard
- Choose optimal exercises and tutorials
- Perceive relationships on the fretboard
- Enjoy consistently productive practice
- Avoid tension and pain
- Sustain motivation and commitment
- Play with musicality and expression
You & Your Guitar shows you how to do these things and more. It encourages you to question and abandon obstacles often accepted as fact, opening new pathways to joy and mastery. It shows you how to think, feel, hear, and practice like the limitless guitarist you are. And You & Your Guitar gives you the tools to build the physical strength and musical proficiency required to meet your goals, regardless of your current level or past experience. It’s guided
self-study at its best!
2-book set + 3 months membership in the Virtual Studio: $45.
What You Get
Buy You & Your Guitar and the DAILY— workbook/journal and practice log—today for only $45 and get 3 months membership in the
Virtual Studio (value $29.95) free! The Virtual Studio contains over 150 essential audio, video, and text lessons to enhance your
guided self-study. Courses are even included for every level player! Look inside the book and watch the videos below to find out more.
With You & Your Guitar, you’ll start by cultivating the mental and emotional skills that enable efficient learning and indefinite progress. Then you’ll learn to successfully direct your own practice by diagnosing the gaps in your knowledge and skills and choosing materials and tutorials that help you fill those gaps. By working in this way you will bring the self into your guided self-study while building a rewarding and enduring relationship with your guitar.
Add in the DAILY—workbook, journal, and practice log—as an invaluable tool for your practice. This 8 x 10 hard cover, wire bound book will give you a place to record your dreams, ideas, practice plans and experiences. Get ready to become your own best teacher and student and watch your musicianship grow as you gain clarity on your goals and aspirations and create meaningful and satisfying ways to turn them into reality!
Do you like learning songs from books or YouTube videos—or do you even make up your own songs? The lessons in the Virtual Studio will help you understand those songs and enable you to add leads or riffs, create beginnings and endings, or play them in different keys or with different accompaniment patterns. You’ll develop your technique, your ear, and your knowledge of music, shattering limits along the way!
What People Say
>Wow! I love this book! I’ve been playing and practicing for at least a few decades, and You and Your Guitar is unlike anything else I’ve come across. For me it’s a holistic guide to approaching the guitar, with wisdom and practical tools that I will continue to reference over time.
Thank you Charlotte Adams!
David Siegfried
“Digging it!” This was what I wrote to Charlotte after purchasing this well written book. “You and Your Guitar” is a must read...It goes well beyond explaining the fundamentals and techniques for learning and will help you understand the “WHY”.
David Quijano
This book is NOT your average run of the mill instruction manual. It contains so much more than the basic techniques for playing the guitar. I highly recommend this book and all that goes with it.
Mike Walden
You & Your Guitar offers insight into the learning process unlike anything I’ve ever read before. If you are a student, you need this book. If you are a teacher, you need this book (I know I do!), and so do your students.
Grant Mazak (from the forward)
This book is very relatable for a player at any level. It is encouraging for those just starting out, yet still inspiring for those who have already been playing for years. It is the philosophical glue that ties all of Charlotte’s other five books together.
Catalina Hungerford
Buy Now: $45
If you’re ready for the deep satisfaction and remarkable results that being your own great guitar teacher can bring, start with You & Your Guitar as your guidebook to success and use the DAILY to bring the principles you learn into reality! Together, these books will help you clarify what you know, what you don’t know, and what you want to know, so that you can choose the best materials for your level. They will provide a template for your lesson plans and assist you in cultivating creativity, inspiration, motivation, and commitment. In other words, you will be able to enjoy and benefit from guided self-study that is intelligent, positive, and proven. Enjoy the endless possibilities—and please email me to help you chart or refine your path. You can do this—and I am here to support you!
