Lessons with the right guitar teacher can help you achieve your guitar goals faster and avoid bad habits that lead to frustration and injury. To learn more about high-quality guitar lessons, please visit: http://montavillaguitarstudio.com/.

1. Why Great Technique is Fundamental to Playing
Guitar with Ease
Having great technique is the key to ensuring your progress on the instrument is steady and
consistent. There is so much information out there for beginners. While learning scales, chords, and
riffs is important, how you practice them will make a big difference in how quickly you progress. I
help my students reach their goals by showing them the building blocks of great technique that
support their progress at every stage of development.
Sometimes you get to a point where you feel stuck, like your guitar playing just isn’t getting to the
next level. This can be a symptom of “bad habits” or gaps in your technique studies. We all have a
couple bad habits we are working on improving—a great teacher will give you feedback and help
you make the necessary changes to your routine to get you unstuck! The path to getting unstuck is
discovered when you break down the piece of music into smaller, more manageable steps. For
example, I have all my students focus on beautiful tone and the proper physical technique required
to produce the best sound with the least effort. If the piece you are working on is too difficult to
allow you to focus on your sound, then you need to simplify: choose an easier piece!
A great teacher will guide the guitar student to choose the right repertoire appropriate for his or her
level of development. I’ve seen many a guitar recital where a student struggled to perform a piece
that was too challenging for the student’s current level of ability. The first thing to go when a
student is performing over ability level is tone quality; second, rhythm and flow. My studio’s goal is
to provide the best guitar lessons in Portland. I do this by helping people develop great guitar
technique with a step-by-step process that eliminates bad habits and gets them playing guitar with
ease.
People come to Montavilla Guitar Studio because they want high-quality guitar lessons. I strive to
give my students the tools they need to grow their guitar-playing skills and take their playing to the
next level. It is my hope that my Portland guitar lessons will provide people a path toward playing
guitar with ease, especially if their current approach has them feeling stuck.