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…
Read moreJan 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…
Read moreJan 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…
Read moreDec 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…
Read moreDec 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.
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…
Read moreNov 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…
Read moreNov 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
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…
Read moreOct 12 2017
This really shed some light on it for me. great advice!
This really shed some light on it for me. great advice!
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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