The Precision Technique

heck him out on Youtube–you will be amazed. The Precision Technique DVD is my daily bread. I’m 54 and I started playing guitar in elementary school, had beginner lessons and later on jazz lessons, and I’ve got two cardboard boxes full of guitar books and all that together did LESS for my playing than a couple weeks with The Precision Technique! I switched to the .38 Dunlops and love them. I’ve been refining my pick grip day by day and the improvement in my playing is remarkable. I’m thrilled, though I can’t help wishing I’d ‘seen the light’ about 30 years ago! But hey, better late than never! Thank you so much from a very satisfied and future customer.
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much easier than before. I will never play as fast as Robert Conti, but this course has definitely improved my chops. The exercises have become part of my daily warm-up and practice routines.
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itar, but also made a start on Ticket to Improv volume one. My problem is I've never played single string stuff on the guitar, nor ever used a pick so this new project is a real challenge (I am 69 yrs old so don't perhaps learn quite as quickly as I used to!)My biggest struggle is placing the fingers of the left had on the right strings (you can't really see the fretboard when you're looking edge-on) and then trying to hit the correct string with the pick. Sounds easy but it's not! I am improving though - just too slow for my liking, but I do realise it will come with time. The coming winter will give me more time to practice. I am enjoying it though and that's the main thing. Bob's various narratives have been very helpful and inspiring, as has the player's gallery.I really like Bob's approach to learning - it is exactly the approach I've discovered for myself over many years on different instruments. Practice by playing the music you want on the instrument - use exercises only when technical facility needs to be specifically improved. Leave theory to later (or maybe not at all).
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coordination in my right hand as well as my sense of timing. I anticipate within a year I will completely regain my loss ability thanks to these exercises. No matter what level of skill and ability you currently command you will greatly benefit from this study. Conti talks at great length about the benefits of using the 0.38 Jim Dunlop picks. I can certainly attest to the fact that it is a difficult transition. However if you are willing to spend the ten to twenty days to make the adjustment you will be glad you did and you will never look back, trust me. Conti also talks at length about concentrating on “the snap of the pick.” I recently read an article where another instructor discusses “the bounce of the pick.” He compares it to the bounce of the stick when a drummer strikes the drum. Thinking of it in these terms help drive the point home and give me greater focus on my picking problems. I hope this share will benefit others having problems in this area. Thanks again Bob, you are The Socrates of Swing!!!
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te jazz guitar players. Later on I started to buy records from Wes Montgomery, Martin Taylor and Kenny Burrel, and later on also Mike Stern and Bireli Lagrene. Few weeks ago I saw Bireli Lagrene playing in Paris and coming weekend I will see him again playing at a fstival in France. Just wanted to say that since I heard you for the first time (on You Tube) a few weeks ago, I am listening to you several times a day; you are truly an amazing jazz guitarist; the way you combine musicality with an incredible virtuoso speed of playing (which I sofar only saw with Bireli Lagrene and Joe Pass) is just superb.Best regards,Jos Vesters
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aying fast, smooth, flawless and with style that you can learn only from a master like Mr. Conti. You have others that play good guitar but they do not know how to teach or pass on their knowledge that is why you cannot call them a master. A true great master is a teacher who knows how to make the student understand and also play as good as the teacher himself. Once again Thank God that I found you on the internet and I thank Mr. Conti that I will soon be able to play like him. Can you imagine the look on my face and on the face of others when they see me play like my great Maestro Robert Conti.Regards,Ashok Hirdaramani
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role of the first finger on the fretting hand, and choosing a pick. Just these two pieces of information helped me a lot, immediately.
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ies for soloing and more modern chordal comping. Thanks again for what you do!
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was amazed to hear you say that you used the 0.038 Dunlop nylon pick, because I've been using Jazz III picks or the moral equivalent for years. Not wanting to be close-minded, especially after seeing your demonstrations and hearing your arguments in favor of a thin pick, I decided to give it a try. By the third day of steady practice, it produced the first real breakthrough in my picking technique in twenty years, so I felt obliged to write and say thanks. I've been pushing speed limits that were not possible before. For me, just going 110 is a breakthrough, and I've been touching 120. I have gotten to like the Dunlop .046 nylon pick because it's light enough to eliminate the accursed bounce that you describe and demonstrate on The Precision Technique, but there's enough impact for a good dynamic range. I found .038 a little too soft, but I may change my mind. Anyway, don't want to take all day to explain this -- I think your DVDs are outstanding, and I really enjoy them. You not only know what you know, but you know what the audience DOESN'T know, and you take the time to anticipate their misunderstandings and clear them up. That's the mark of a great teacher.
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nities for soloing and more "modern" chordal comping. Thanks again for what you do!
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