First, let’s define success on guitar. Success to me is practicing 5 to 7 days a week with a record of doing it for at least 254 days which I will explain below. The practice must be quality practice, not simply noodling or doing what you can already do. You should be working on challenging…
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The Fastest Way To Learn Guitar
When I was 8 years old I received a guitar from my parents. Probably as a present but I don’t actually remember. In fact I can hardly remember much about the experience at all. What I do know is the novelty of guitar at that age wore off pretty quickly. I vaguely remember having…
Successful guitar students prepare to fail – What?
Hang on a minute. Aren’t successful people confident and positive about what they can achieve? Weren’t we told that if you expect to fail you probably will? The ‘Self fulfilling prophecy’ idea right? Well it turns out that a sign of a successful person is someone who is actually expecting to fail and this applies to…
5 Ways to Inspire Yourself to Practice Guitar
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…
When will you get around to learning guitar?
I often get asked when is the best time to start guitar and my answer is RIGHT NOW! The problem is the ‘right now’ answer does not always feel right wouldn’t you agree? Perhaps you are moving house, about to go traveling, having a baby, have no money or are just not in the right…
Are you a frustrated guitarist?
Don’t be put off. Your frustration is trying to tell you something so you need to listen. My early beginnings on guitar were mostly enjoyable. I had little to no expectations. My school friend had an electric guitar and he would kindly let me play it when I would visit his home which became…
The Loog Guitar?
The Loog Guitar was the invention of Rafael Atijas who developed the concept as his Master’s thesis at New York University. The Loog Guitar was launched in 2011 via Kickstarter the fundraising website as a creative project. The idea behind the Loog Guitar was to make a simple, fun, inexpensive and even environmentally friendly instrument that would…
How to start your child learning music
So where do you start? Music learning is similar to language. Its starts with listening (exposure) by playing music at home, singing songs from 20 weeks from conception (or sooner as I am sure the practice won’t hurt). What songs should you play or sing? Remember its like learning a language so although most music…
5 misconceptions about learning guitar. No. 2.
People with short fingers don’t make good guitar players. I distinctly remember as a teen people commenting on the size of Jimi Hendrix’s hands. To a naive beginner with average fingers playing Hendrix style guitar seemed impossible. This affected me so much so that I didn’t even bother with Hendrix at the time and just…
“How do I get my child to practice music without the tears?”
If you are a parent with a child who refuses to practice their musical instrument it can at times feel like a pointless waste of time. Most parents in this situation are left wondering what to do and whether there really is a solution. There are two common schools of thought in this debate. Lets start…
Your child not practicing guitar? 5 things NOT to do
1. Do not stop their guitar lessons. Some parents will use this tactic out of frustration but the result is nobody wins. Talk to their guitar teacher and if they are unable to help then find a new guitar teacher. 2. Do not yell at them. Some parents resort to screaming at their children but its never…
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