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If you're relying on motivation to determine whether or not you're going to show up and practice today - you're going to fail...

Motivation is a feeling that you can't control. It's fleeting - it comes and goes. 

But what if we didn't have to rely on a fickle feeling that comes and goes out of our control, and instead anchored our desire to pr...

My favorite practice tool isn't just any old metronome. It's actually a feature within the Guitar Pro software that you probably don't even know exists!

In today's video, I walk you through this feature and why it's so game-changing to our practice.

Our focus is very delicate, and easily broken. But our practice is only as effective and efficie...

Guess what?

I'm not that talented!

So if you're discouraged because you don't feel like you were born with some natural musical ability, I'm here to tell you that it's ok! That's not holding you back as much as you think it is.

Today, I'm going to share with you the only 2 things you need to worry about to see long-term continual and sustainab...

I'm gonna be honest, most of us just don't practice right... I adopted a specific mindset in my guitar practice about a year or 2 ago that drastically improved the quality of my practice.

I call it the "Free Solo" mindset.

You might be surprised to hear that this mindset is inspired by rock climbing, of all things, and is named after an amazing...

This might sound crazy…

Especially given the fact that I’m a classically trained guitarist with a masters degree.

But I don’t regularly practice scales or technique exercises.

I know…. blasphemy!

This is a very intentional decision, though, and one that I don’t take lightly. I want to spend my practice time playing real music, not slaving awa...

I took on an interesting challenge this week. I asked myself, if I had only 10 minutes with a student and would never meet with them again; what wisdom would I share with them from my guitar journey that would have a lasting impact on their playing?

That question inspired me to make one of my most ambitious videos to date. It is jam packed with ...

Late-night scale practice… slaving over the metronome… moments where we’d rather bash the guitar against a wall than do one more slur exercise…

Why do we do it? Why do we push day-after-day, year-after-year to further develop and improve our guitar technique?

We do it because good technique enables us to play the guitar beautifully, in a way th...

Nothing is more frustrating than practice with no progress…

What if I told you there was a recipe for practice that guaranteed steady progress?

Sounds gimmicky, I know, but there truly is a proven approach to practice that yields consistent results and enables you to play your pieces the way you want to play them, in a fraction of the time.

It...

Let’s face it… it’s impossible to learn guitar without picking up a bad habit or two along the way. BUT the most dangerous bad habits are the ones that you didn’t realize existed.

Bad habits can sneak up in our playing at any time, especially if you don’t have a good teacher regularly checking in on you to catch them before they really latch on....