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Feb 3 2018

I haven’t posted in a while…I’ve been adventuring and building...

I haven’t posted in a while…I’ve been adventuring and building websites…teaching a ton of lessons and trying to keep my bands together. My new routine for practice involves ireal pro, working on improv for about 30 minutes. If anything I…

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Jan 11 2018

Turned the #Westone Concord 3 into a #baritone guitar, added a...

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Turned the #Westone Concord 3 into a #baritone guitar, added a #seymourduncan JB Jr mini humbucker and some real heavy #ernieball…

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Jan 9 2018

Maintaining Focus

It’s a new year.  We always see this marker as a time to make big changes in our lives.  I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing if we can stick to these changes but I always find this…

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Dec 25 2017

Great advice from Bruce ForemanPractice things that are relevant to the music you would normally...

Great advice from Bruce Foreman

Practice things that are relevant to the music you would normally play or to the work you will be doing. So if you want to play thrash metal, don’t work on your jazz licks. I…

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Dec 10 2017

Just another practice tip

Pick a new key signature every month.  Use this for your picking exercises, scales, arpeggios, chords, theory, composing, accompanying.  If you use iRreal Pro or Ultimate guitar, learn songs, but transpose them to this key.

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Nov 3 2017

Legato

If you’re not familiar, here is the technical definition: smooth and connected; without breaks between the successive tones.

A good lot of my students struggle with this, especially on lead lines or on sustained barred chords.  For the most part…

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Nov 3 2017

working on my economy picking a lot lately.  Also, obsessing...

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working on my economy picking a lot lately.  Also, obsessing over hammer ons and pull-offs.  Don’t let your ego tell you…

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Nov 2 2017

The guitar solo from my song “The Devil You Never Name”  This is...

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The guitar solo from my song “The Devil You Never Name”  This is an old one, but I’m happy to say…

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Nov 1 2017

Never under estimate the power of the hammer. Been listening to...



Never under estimate the power of the hammer. Been listening to way too much death core lately. #everydayisgainzday

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Oct 18 2017

Your friend the alarm clock

I talk about metronomes constantly, waxing poetic about how they will keep time for you.  But beyond keeping track of your speed, you should be managing your time when practicing and the best way to do it is to keep…

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Oct 12 2017

This really shed some light on it for me.  great advice!



This really shed some light on it for me.  great advice!

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Sep 26 2017

Consistency, bro

I’ve set out to work consistently on alternate picking for 100 days, mostly because I’d seen a lot of lessons online of people saying how, really the only thing holding you back from playing like this is dedicating the time…

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