How to Set and Achieve Goals with Your Guitar Playing
We’re headed into a new year and a new year and now is the time many people are thinking about what they want to achieve in 2022. Hopefully you’re super…
Practicing Guitar
Articles and tips to help your guitar practicing to be more effective.
Do This One Thing and Your Guitar Playing Will Get Better. I Guarantee You!
[Updated 2014] Sounds like a bad late night infomercial huh? I can guarantee that this will work, but I can’t guarantee that it will be easy. This pretty much goes…
Customer Success Story – Jesse Canarte
The following is a testimony written by Jesse Canarte about what it took for him, a married man with kids to be successful at learning to play slide guitar. Jesse’s…
How to Respond to Failure When Learning Guitar
I write about setting goals a lot when playing guitar and it really does work. However, there is another side of the coin which is equally important. What happens when…
How to Put More Emotion into Your Guitar Playing
One thing I have been thinking about lately, is that humans are emotional creatures and respond to almost anything that seems to come from the heart. If this statement is…
When Are Guitar Lessons Even Worth it?
Recently, someone emailed me and asked what were in my lessons that he couldn’t learn on his own. I thought for a little while and thought. Nothing really. Is this…
Forget Scales and Everything You’ve Learned
There comes a time when you’ve learned so many new concepts, scales, techniques, etc…, that you have to take a step back and stop thinking about the technical side of…
My First Guitar Recital
It was the summer of 1992 and I had just graduated from High School. I had been playing guitar for about a year now and finally felt like I was…
“I Practice Guitar But I Don’t Get Any Better.”
Do you find yourself saying this over and over again? If you already think that this phrase sums up your guitar playing experience, then reading this post may bring some…
Are you experiencing the Dip?
Seth Godin put out a book entitled, “The Dip”. This is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it to anyone trying to learn something, or run a business. In…