Purposeful Guitar Practice: Manage Your Time and Your Energy

Purposeful Guitar Practice Manage Your Time And Your Energy

In this Purposeful Guitar Practice series we’ve offered ideas for scheduling your guitar practice time and using a digital timer to get the most out of your guitar-practice sessions. It’s important to manage your limited guitar-practice time, but it’s equally important to manage your guitar-practice energy. In Be Excellent at Anything, author Tony Schwartz feels that energy management is as … Read more

Guitar Practice: Get Past Sticking Points, Grease the Groove

Guitar Practice Get Past Sticking Points, Grease The Groove

This effective guitar tip is called Grease the Groove (GTG). I learned GTG from strength and fitness guru, Pavel Tsatsouline. It’s a strength-building exercise technique that I’ve applied successfully to my physical fitness workouts. Grease the Groove is designed to get you past your “sticking points.” The GTG method for getting past sticking points involves frequent, but … Read more

Jamorama review

Hello and welcome to my Jamorama review. The world of guitar instruction has changed a little since I was first started playing electric guitar as a teenager in the early 90s. Home internet was around back then, but it was very new, and downloading hours of video or audio content was certainly not something that ordinary people … Read more

The Jazzmasters’ Favorite: Mickey Baker’s Complete Jazz Guitar

Mickey Baker’s Complete Course in Jazz Guitar has been around for over 50 years. It’s definitely an “old school” style of music book. But if you’re an intermediate player, can read standard notation, and want to get started playing jazz guitar, this book will get you started. Watch the video briefing for Mickey Baker’s Complete … Read more