Tagged practice

We’ve all had the experience of feeling like a guitar god while practicing in our bedrooms, but when you get up on stage it’s an entirely different ball game. Why did you butcher that solo that you’ve...

We’ve all heard the soaring lead runs of legato masters like Joe Satriani and Allan Holdsworth, but it can be very difficult to pull off those runs with that same level of consistency. It’s easy to...

Quality time on the guitar does not have to be something that complicates your life. When you plan your life according to a strict schedule it can make you even less likely to practice. But we don’t have...

There are two types of guitar players: people who admit they aren’t always happy with their playing, and liars. No musician has avoided the feeling that they don’t like their musical abilities. Not just...

I can’t count the number of times I’ve searched the interwebs looking for something… anything I could find to help me progress in my playing. No matter how many videos I watched on YouTube on “How...

When I first picked up the guitar, I was practicing maybe 3 hours a day and even more on the weekends (I had no life). I've been playing for almost 11 years now, and boy does it become difficult to motivate...