Listening is severely underrated when it comes to learning to play guitar. If you truly want to succeed on guitar you must be an active listener of guitar music. As a guitar teacher I have even found myself neglecting to both listen and to advise my students to listen. There are two types of listening…

Tracking yourself is extremely underrated. When you decide on a goal but have no tracking system in place your chances of reaching that goal are dramatically reduced.  I have seen it time and time again with myself, my students, my business, my health and the evidence is everywhere. I am going to give some examples…

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If you are a parent with a child learning guitar or any musical instrument for that matter its important to understand the reasons your child may possibly decide to quit. There are of course many reasons why a child might fail to learn to play guitar but if you are a parent I want to point…

The majority of people who take up guitar do so because they were inspired by a guitarist, band or song. When they made their guitar purchase they were excited and imagined themselves practicing everyday but somewhere along the way the fire went out. Guitar practice began to feel like a chore. Even when they could…

There was a time when I thought rockstars were lucky. I believed they were just born under the right star. As time went by and I read more and more about the path to success for almost every successful band and artist it became quite apparent that their talent and success was actually the result…

Procrastination is definitely high on the list of reasons why students fail to learn guitar. If you are guilty of skipping your daily practice due to procrastination the 10 minute a day strategy may just be the answer. One of the main reasons we tend to avoid any task is because we just don’t feel like…

But hang on a minute. Aren’t successful people positive thinkers? What about the idea of self fulfilling prophecies where if you expect to fail you probably will? Well it turns out that a sign of a successful person is someone who is actually expecting to fail. They don’t want to fail of course and failure…

To be successful on guitar you need to be consistent with your practice and your lessons but more to achieve this you MUST put an end to the excuses you make.  I could write a book on the number of excuses I have heard over the years but here are some of the most popular…

Did you know pride actually increases willpower? According to the book ‘The Willpower Instinct‘ imagining yourself in the future reaching your goals creates a sense of pride which increases willpower.  It actually makes perfect sense because the only reason any of us picked up the guitar in the first place was because we imagined our…

1. Make sure your guitar is in tune before the lesson starts-this means at home tune before your teacher gets there, or tune either once you get to the studio/store or at home before you put your guitar in the case. This saves valuable minutes-especially if you take 30 min lessons! 4-5 tuning minutes can…

To reach your goal of succeeding on guitar limit your options. Thomas Schelling a behavioral economist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 believes that to reach our goals we must limit our options. We live in a world where the options seem infinite and are rising rapidly every year. Life in the 1920‘s…