The Whole Guitarist

Announcing the new Download Store at www.thewholeguitarist.com.

You can expect to find guitar tuition products here which are quite different to the general fare. I choose to focus on the fundamental principles of musical performance on the guitar. There is already a plethora of guitar repertoire available elsewhere, in fact a deluge! But that will only take you so far.

If you have certain ambitions on the instrument you will sooner or later hit barriers to progress, and then the only sure way forward is to revisit the fundamentals. The fact that I spend 20 minutes looking at a 4 second passage may seem excessive, but indeed this is the path to mastery of any activity. Whether it be golf, martial arts or music, the consistently excellent performers really know their basics.

Peter Inglis

Click on "Guitar Playing and how it Works", and "Hierarchy of skills" on the main site menu, and browse from there. There are many content samples and free videos on the site.

On this website and in my publications I'll show you tried and tested mental and physical approaches to performing music on the guitar.

These methods have been field tested while performing thousands of times and over several decades in Rock, Classical, Country and Jazz ensembles as well as solo Classical and Jazz guitar.

The basic building blocks of a musical vocabulary are explained and demonstrated in my book "Guitar Playing and how it Works".

On this site there are also appreciations and analyses of selected musicians and their recordings. Use the recommended recordings to aid your study of style and to choose repertoire.

Above all, enjoy music!

Peter Inglis

Sydney, Australia, 2009.