Book Review: Effortless Mastery

"The effort it takes for you to perform music equals the distance between you and mastery " - Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery. In...

Measuring progress

Tracking progress is a popular topic on guitar blogs I read. With all the day-to-day ups and downs, the best advice is to measure progress o...

How to practice things that need a lot of repetition

Some things you practice may require a lot of repetition to train your muscle memory. It's tempting to just keep repeating an exercise t...

Why every musician should compose

Composing is a discovery process. When you compose even a bit, you learn about what goes through composers heads when they compose, and you ...

How to divide up practice time

Dividing up practice time Teachers usually recommend dividing up your practice time between technique, studies, and repertoire. Since there...

What is efficient?

"When working on the exercises, the guitarist must keep in mind the fact that mechanical repetition is worthless. Every time an exerci...

Electric guitar, part 2

It's quite a different experience, beginning again but with so many years of music experience behind me. It's not quite as fun as b...