Articles and tips to help your guitar practicing to be more effective.
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 pumped that this WILL BE the year that you make…
[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 against the: PLAY THE GUITAR OVERNIGHT OR YOUR MONEY BACK…
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 Story It’s no secret it takes self-discipline to learn a…
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 you set these goals and you DON’T ACHIEVE THEM? Most…
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 true, we need to be putting as much emotion as…
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 true? I thought about it for a good while and…
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 music while you’re playing. It’s true that you must learn…
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 getting somewhere. I was currently taking private lessons at M…
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 long needed answers to your mind. So why does this…
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 this book Seth talks about the process of how one…