Hi guys,
Welcome to my column. Let me introduce myself and my background, my name is Chris Horton. I’m a 25 year old guitarist, in a working band, and I play guitar for a local studio, Oasis Records. I also have worked as crew on some big name Australian acts. I got to see and set […]

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Find yourself getting asked this question each day as you stroll into your part-time or full-time job? Maybe you are starting to feel like everyday you have a “case of the Mondays.”

If you can find a fulfilling job that allows you to still be involved in music at the level you desire, then great! […]

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“Why am I troubled in this narrow cramped routine, when life, all life, with all its joys lies open to me?”-Leo Tolstoy
Do you seem to be asking yourself this question regularly? Are you leading the life that you have envisioned for yourself?
Maybe you are. But there is a good chance that […]

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Danny Devito may not be a virtuoso guitar player, but guitarist can learn a valuable lesson from him nonetheless.
You may be asking yourself, “What the Hell does Danny Devito have to do with guitar?”
Seth Godin, marketing genius had a very interesting post comparing Danny with George Clooney:
Can you imagine the career advice Danny got? […]

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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”-Mark Twain

Want to be a Rock Star? Or just be able to sustain your desired lifestyle with doing what you love? Sure you […]

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Just got finished reading a blog post from Michael Michalko, one of the most highly acclaimed creativity experts in the world. As an officer in the U.S. Army, Michael organized a team of NATO intelligence specialists and international academics in Frankfurt, Germany, to research, collect, and categorize all known inventive-thinking methods. His team applied the […]

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I began playing guitar in 1977, and have stuck with it steadily ever since. For the last 20 years I’ve made my whole living from guitar, which means playing live, marketing my original music on itunes and as physical CDs, writing for the major guitar magazines, doing session work, publishing instructional videos, teaching private guitar […]

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Reza Manzoori was born in the year of the fire horse in Shiraz, Iran, a city famous for its wine, rose gardens, and poetry. He remembers an early affinity for music and rhythm, but didn’t begin playing until rather late in life at 17 when he found an old guitar belonging to his sister in […]

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Besides from sucking, (although there are many exceptions to this) the number 1 reason people fail to achieve what they want in life is simply one word:
Find out what it is by reading more….

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This strong conviction to realize your life is beyond “successful” or “not successful.” Beyond any feeling of fear, you just do it. That is practice and that is the way-seeking mind, which goes beyond dualistic ideas of good and bad, right and wrong. You just Do it.-Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
No matter what genre or […]

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