3 Point Practice Plan (part 2)

Yes, OK, it’s been a while since part 1, but I always planned to return to this topic as how you practice is essential to how good you’ll be at playing anything! Click here if you can’t see the video I basically break practice time into three main sections: 1. Warm Up Including any exercises. [...]

February 11, 2010 at 5:30 pm | Practicing and Practice Routine | 2 comments

10 Reasons why You need a Metronome (part 2)

Right, so it turns out that my “10 Reasons” why you should get a metronome fills two whole (pretty long) blog posts! I can’t say I’m surprised, if you don’t already own or use a metronome you really are missing out on something that will improve your playing no end. If you’re not already convinced [...]

February 9, 2010 at 1:56 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

10 Reasons why You need a Metronome!

So, I talk about it almost every time I mention practice routine, or speed building, or guitar technique…the list goes on and I’m sure you get the point here- I find metronome use pretty essential! It’s so important in fact, that I’ve recently installed a little javascript metronome to my site (there should be a [...]

February 8, 2010 at 9:28 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | 5 comments

Playing in the Dark

Playing in the dark will actually improve your sight-reading. Let me guess, you don’t believe me? Well true, practicing sight-reading itself, with all the lights out is going to be no use at all! Unless, of course, you’ve taken to wearing a set of night vision goggles as a fashion accessory. I want to show [...]

January 19, 2010 at 3:33 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

Sowing the Seeds of Success

OK, so now Christmas is over and we’re all sobering back up and getting back to work, the daily routine of life kicks in once again. For us guitarists this means getting back to that practice schedule that we “forgot about” in the wake of the Christmas and New Years celebrations, but how do you [...]

January 2, 2010 at 3:55 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | 2 comments

Guitar Shape Shifter Curse (Part 2)

In Guitar Shape Shifter Curse part one we discussed why it’s a good idea to break away from our “safe zone” in music, why we should be listening to new ideas all the time and always learning new things. In this post I’m going to explain some ways in which you can get out of [...]

December 12, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | 1 comment

Guitar Shape Shifter Curse!

You know when you play guitar too much when you’re reading something totally unrelated to guitar playing and it reminds you about guitar technique. Well, not that I believe you can play guitar too much! Either way, this happened to me recently. I was reading through a blog post by Yaro Starak called “Do Your [...]

December 11, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | 1 comment

Finger Strength vs Force

Here is a video of me sweep-picking (and also something refered to as sweep-tapping) on an acoustic guitar. click here if you can’t see the video. If you’re familiar with playing an acoustic guitar, you’ll know that the strings tend to be alot thicker (my acoustic is strung with elevens, but has had up to [...]

December 9, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | 1 comment

Strum Along

I once remember being asked a question by another guitarist, and to be honest, he had a very good point. The problem was the point of view that he was asking the question from. I had the a similar perspective to him before I found the answer, and this is one of those things that [...]

December 6, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, Music News and Opinions, Practicing and Practice Routine | 1 comment

10 Ways to Combat Musical Boredom

USTYNPHSDUTU I’ve always said that the key to success in music is hard work and determination, but these things aren’t always so hard to achieve (or when you find them, they are difficult to hold on to). So I’ve compiled this list of things that should help you to stay focused on your goals and [...]

November 25, 2009 at 1:41 pm | How to, Practicing and Practice Routine | 4 comments

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