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Recent Posts:

• New Zoom course: Fingerstyle Fundamentals
• The Complete Strummer online rhythm class
• TPB on the road: performance and workshop at Babcock Ranch
• Practical music theory for strummers and songwriters
• The Guitar Circle returns!
• Songs Without Words: 12 Preludes for solo guitar
• Interview: Nashville Voyager
• Interview: The Creative Push
• Interview with Indie Music Discovery
• Repost: Three things I learned from my most gifted students
• Your old model for music lessons doesn’t work.
• How can I make practicing scales more interesting?
• Guitar learning and the internet
• The Etudes Project
• Traditional Carol arrangements for solo guitar
• Remembering Eddie Van Halen
• Chopin Plays The Changes
• For What It’s Worth (SOTW)
• Crosscut Saw (Albert King): easy blues guitar intro
• SOTW: Carolina In My Mind, part 2
• Essential Riffs: Funk 49
• Picker’s Delight: Uneasy Rider
• SOTW: Sister Golden Hair
• Picker’s Delight: Sugarfoot Rag
• SOTW: Sunshine Of Your Love
• Lead Guitar 101: Phrasing and line
• SOTW: Guy Clark’s “LA Freeway”
• Song of the week: Boom Boom
• Do you practice music like you mow the lawn?
• Guest post: jamming and playing by ear
• The Perpetual Beginner’s Guide To Practicing
• The most important thing to learn from guitar lessons.
• 2019 Holiday Guitar Lesson Specials: Buy 4, Get 1 Free
• Introducing the Perpetual Beginner Project.
• Getting the most out of your guitar lessons
• Managing hand pain: should you push through it?
• Making the most of your practice time
• Core Concepts 12: build a repertoire and perform it
• Core concepts 11: never stop looking for new options
• Core Concepts 10: improvise and explore!
• Core Concepts 9: Know the rules, learn from the rulebreakers
• Core Concepts 8: play well with others
• Core Concepts 7: the best musicians have big ears.
• Core Concepts 6: balance your practice time
• Core Concepts 5: connect the dots, learn relationships.
• Core Concepts 4: every technical challenge has a mechanical solution
• Core Concepts 3: what’s your musical direction?
• Core Concepts 2: talent is an advantage, not a requirement
• Core Concepts 1: make friends with your guitar
• Putting the pieces together
• Get rhythm: timing and feel.
• How to make a guitar sing.
• The one lead guitar rule you should never break.
• Learning to understand harmony
• Learning to listen
• Learning the notes: navigating the matrix
• Professional skill vs personal style
• Chops vs technique
• What’s your motivation?
• Three simple steps to more relaxed playing
• Making intentional choices.
• New moveable shapes from barre chords
• Learn concepts from the songs you play
• Should you anchor your picking hand?
• How do scales become melodies?
• Learn new ways to play familiar chords.
• 5 essential rules for accompanists
• Guest post: speaking of practice…
• Does your playing serve your writing?
• A better way to learn scales
• What you know and why it matters
• Finding community, playing together.
• Three reasons why every musician should sing.
• Practical music theory: what is a key?
• What listening to new music can do for your playing
• Balancing technical challenges and musical satisfaction.
• Performing makes you a better player.
• 3 tips for practicing with a metronome
• Three chords and the truth
• Three reasons why you should join the band.
• What’s The Best Way To Learn To Play
• Organize your practice time!
• The Perpetual Beginner: boxed in by chord boxes?
• The Perpetual Beginner: what makes a good teacher
• The Perpetual Beginner: how to play smoother chord changes
• The Perpetual Beginner: the problem with tablature
• Walking the walk
• The Perpetual Beginner: 5 tips for smoother playing
• The Perpetual Beginner: making effective commitments with personalized lesson plans
• The Perpetual Beginner: expanding your chord vocabulary
• The Perpetual Beginner: just play!
• The Perpetual Beginner: creating your personal guitar syllabus
• What A Wonderful World: Tommy Emmanuel balances taste and technique
• Self-assessment on guitar: 3 big-picture areas to explore
• Your picking hand: the ultimate analog effect
• Road notes: stage interaction and the pitfalls of live sound
• The Perpetual Beginner: 3 things you probably aren’t doing when you practice
• The Perpetual Beginner: the brilliant simplicity of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
• The Perpetual Beginner – an introduction to fingerpicking
• The Love Of The Game