How to Set and Achieve Goals with Your Guitar Playing
We’re headed into a new year and a new decade depending on who you talk to. I guess technically 2021 is the start of a … Read more
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 … Read more
Practice Like a Performance
As my arm becomes stronger, I am now able to play for much longer and with more power than I have been able to in … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Forget Scales and Everything You’ve Learned
Am I crazy! A little but who isn’t? There comes a time when you’ve learned so many new concepts, scales, techniques, etc…, that you have … Read more
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 … Read more
“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 … Read more
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, … Read more