Subject: Do You Know What To Practice?
Do You Know What To Practice?
March 31st, 2016 at 11:14 am EDTHey Friend, I hope you got some value out of the exercise lesson I gave yesterday. Part of learning guitar is preparation - you have to be physically able to learn techniques and stretching is a key to ongoing success. While stretching will help you ...
Don't Get Mad, 'Toine...
March 30th, 2016 at 11:17 am EDTHey Friend, Here are some common questions I see from fellow members here at Learn To Play Rock Guitar:EZ has a problem with "arthritis of hands makes barre chords very difficult or impossible ." Lisa finds it "hard to form chords with left hand, hit ...
Own What You Know
March 29th, 2016 at 11:16 am EDTHey Friend, Yesterday I talked about how to start embracing your inner rock star. If you look at the list again, you'd agree it's not much different than if you wanted to be a pro athlete or a top notch business person. You need to learn the skills ...
How To Be a Rock Star
March 28th, 2016 at 11:19 am EDTHey Friend, When Yessi joined our merry band of guitaristas, s/he let me know some goals: "I want to play like a rock star and, eventually perform my own covers on youtube. Oh, and hopefully join a band. All I know are some power chords in standard t ...
Happy Easter
March 27th, 2016 at 11:06 am EDTHey Friend, Just a short message today - it is supposed to be a day of rest! I wanted to wish you a Happy Easter today. Whether you celebrate it or not, Sunday's always a good day to spend some time with family. We'll be having a nice afternoon meal ...
Break It Down
March 26th, 2016 at 11:07 am EDTHey Friend, I gave you seven exercises yesterday, explaining that they aren't meant for just one practice session. These are exercises that you could very easily spread out over seven weeks (or longer), focusing your attention on a different aspect o ...
Here's Your Problem
March 25th, 2016 at 11:14 am EDTHey Friend, Here's the problem most guitar players have - they try to approach each aspect of guitar playing as a single skill. For instance, they learn to play the pentatonic scale, or how to sweep pick. Or they approach learning a song as a single ...
I'm not quick enough
March 24th, 2016 at 11:13 am EDTHey Friend, So my manic self is sitting here thinking about what brilliance I can enlighten you with today (HA HA!). I've already broken the golden rule of productivity - that is, stay out of email until you get important stuff done. I've just got li ...
Need Some Chicken Soup...
March 23rd, 2016 at 11:09 am EDTHey Friend, I'm back in Florida. We made the trek to and from Ohio successfully. The cats are happy to see us (after they got over being mad at us for leaving in the first place). Since my wife has taken today off to recover from the travel, it's pro ...
Travel Day - Florida Bound
March 22nd, 2016 at 11:18 am EDTHey Friend, "On the road again... I just can't wait to get on the road again The life I live is makin' music with my friends and I can't wait to get on the road again." "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson Yup, another long day driving back to Flor ...