Paul Swanson Guitar Tuition
Professional guitar tuition for all levels in Leamington Spa and Warwick
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To give an extra incentive for focus on technique I keep in the
corner of my teaching room this ladder of progress.
It’s a record of students’ (and my own) top speeds for the example shown in
the page on this site How Good Is *Your* Technique?
For my 25 years of playing I am pleased to hold top spot on my own chart at 180bpm, while my best student clocks in at a frighteningly good (for the age of 15) 150bpm! (need an updated picture). The first time I measured his top speed was in the summer of 2007 when he scored a more modest 70bpm.
Of interest also is the lowest score on the chart. At the bottom left, the miserable 12.5bpm is also mine, having tried this once in a lesson left handed. This is pretty good proof that this is almost a purely physical challenge.
I clocked the 12.5bpm shortly after my 6 week excursion into re-
It’s hard to believe that I’d have been any better than this right handed (with my supposedly weaker left hand on the fretboard) when I first started playing, and I consider this lowly score to be a pretty good pointer to my own level of natural physical talent for the instrument.
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