Why Playing Bass Helps My Guitar Playing…

At first, the title of this post might cause you some anger, depending on who you are. If you’re a stereotypical bassist, I bet you’re thinking “Oh, just another guitarist who thinks he can play the bass and has no real knowledge of how to construct basslines- he will probably just try to do a [...]

April 1, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | 1 comment

How to Use a Metronome

If you haven’t already, I suggest you read my two part (yes, two part!) blog post on why you NEED to use a metronome. After posting that article, I realised that many people become confused by metronomes. There are so many different types with different (and sometimes crazy) functions that you may never even use! [...]

March 9, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

How to Play with Confidence

Photo by paulodonnell I was watching someone play guitar the other day, and I noticed how- although technically accurate- the performance lacked confidence. It just wasn’t convincing. Guitar Technique Now, I’ve talked quite alot on this blog about guitar technique- which is all well and good- but it’ll mean nothing to you if you can’t [...]

March 1, 2010 at 4:28 pm | How to, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

How to Play Guitar: Setting Goals

When you’re a beginner at guitar, you might feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount there can be to learn. In fact, this problem can happen at any point in your guitar playing career. I’ve answered questions from many guitarists who just get to the point of asking themselves “OK, what do I learn next?”. If [...]

February 23, 2010 at 4:30 pm | Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

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

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