On one hand learning guitar online once seemed like a distance far off possibility whereas on the other given our current technology it should now be the norm. Everyone is very busy these days so traveling back and forth each week to see a guitar teacher takes time not only for the student but often…

Placement makes a difference Eddie Van Halen is noted for having a guitar in every room in the house including the toilet so its no coincidence that he became a guitar hero. Jimi Hendrix use to sleep with his guitar. While this may seem a little obsessive having your guitar in a place where you…

Improving your practice through physical exercise. In the USA 65% of the population are now obese and the rest of the developed world have similar statistics. What is even more frightening is these numbers are rising even in children. Now if you spend your day sitting at work or school coming home to sit and…

I must say I have known this fact instinctively for a very long time. The reason I was aware as I am sure you are too was simply because of the huge number of examples of successful individuals with average or even seemingly low IQs. World famous psychologist and science journalist Daniel Goldman underwent a…

Learning guitar today is much more advanced compared to past decades and is probably the reason why we are seeing so many amazing players. The standard of the average student after only a few years of learning is about equal to that of a professional session player in the 1960’s. When I first began teaching guitar…

Standford university pyschology researcher Michael Mischel began a study in the 1960’s known as ‘The Marshmallow Studies’. Mischel wanted to try and understand what effect our impulsive behaviours at a young age had on our future success. In one example the researcher sat a 4 year old boy in a room with one marshmallow on…

GOAL SETTING USING THE G4GUITAR METHOD TO HEAR AN MP3 version of this blog visit http://www.box.net/shared/abp5lesbkz I want to give you a very simple 3 step plan to success on the guitar which is the basis for the G4 GUITAR METHOD. 1. WRITE DOWN YOUR GOAL – The importance of writing down your goal cannot be overstated. Almost everyone and anyone…

A perfect memory Kim Peek born 1951 can read two pages of a book at the same time and remember all the content perfectly. Peek was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rain Man. Peek was not actually autistic He had a remarkable ability to remember large amounts of information after only reading or…

  Through years of teaching guitar and of course from my own personal experiences I believe there are two basic types of excuses we all use to sabotage our success. Time and money. “I don’t have time” or “I can’t afford it”. I think we can safely say that for most of us our lives are ruled…

In the book ‘The Winner’s Brain‘ (A book written by two Harvard brain experts) the authors describe what the successful few do differently to the majority and have actually found their brains not only function differently but also eventually grow differently. In other words successful people shaped their brain for success in the same way…

Two of the most common mistakes when learning guitar are; 1. Intangible goals 2. Putting the cart before the horse (Putting the Song before the Skills) Intangible goal When I began teaching many years ago students would come to me to learn guitar. As an inexperienced guitar teacher my usual question was “What would you…