We all never want to stop getting better at guitar. What’s the best way to go about achieving Never-Ending Guitar Improvement?
The Japanese have a word for Never-ending Improvement.
It is “Kaizen.” Kai meaning “change” and Zen meaning “good”
If all you did was improve one tiny aspect of your guitar life every single […]

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I am pretty lazy about life, in general, I do not meditate as much as I used to, nor do I get out to exercise much, but as far as my guitar fitness, I am constantly striving to stay at the top of my game, and learn new things. For […]

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Whether you’re new to composing or have been writing a while, it is important to ask yourself “why” you are doing it. Are you writing music because you love doing it? Is it for a school assignment? Is it to get paid? I think most of us will agree that loving it and getting […]

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For about 20 years, I was in search of something different, in a time period where guitarists worldwide were learning EVH riffs, and whole introductions and songs, I turned a different direction. I learned a different type of theory, Basic Chord Progressions. I had a guitar teacher in junior high school that taught me all […]

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They’re running out of you!
-George Costanza
 

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When it comes to the subject of musical tuition many of my students arrive with the statement ‘I am stuck in a rut and I can’t improve’. In my opinion there is no simple or straightforward answer to this question, however, I believe your playing can be improved not necessarily through pure physical dedication, but […]

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Do you play a mean guitar but sound like you’re flying in a Satriani dream?
Have you won the statewide guitar contest for playing all of the Yngwie Malmsteen Marching out songs and solos note for note twice as fast?
Are you the second coming of Greg Howe or Holdsworth but going nowhere with your own sound?

“Innovators […]

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Any music sentence or motif is taking place in some harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic environment. It’s a 3-dimensional thinking. All the aspects (dimensions) have their inner sub dimensions.
Oh, I sound like some scientist, but you need to be like one if you want to take your playing to the next level…

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“If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.”– Roman Statesman Cicero

More than simply playing to our audience, we need to connect with them. Roman orator and attorney Cicero knew that connecting at both a mental and emotional level with an audience was crucial…

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A really great way to get better at your soloing, melodies,harmonies, and RHYTHM is to learn to how to be a creative accompanist.  Ask any seasoned jazz guitarist and they’ll probably tell you the same thing.
If you are able to give someone else a good background, it will let YOU be able to see and […]

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