“..Your lifelong task, if you care to be a
guitar player, is to accommodate this sort of “bastardised” instrument,
to the Real World of Music” (Charlie Byrd)

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Number 1: Read one of our first posts, If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.
Number 2: Follow the JFDI principle. What is the JFDI principle? Well, let’s break it down into terms that are simple to understand.
Just
F***ing
Do
It
No need for me to waste any more [...]

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Hey Folks,
Glad to be here; I hope to contribute some of my past/ongoing experiences and travels to the many guitarists/musicians out there that have bigs dreams and expectations!
Anything is possible! I am living proof of this… It seems like just moments ago I was in my little basement apt. in Brooklyn, playing along to used [...]

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Yes, by practice, then practice and some more practice. But the word “practice” is not necessarily the verb “to practice”. It does not have to imply an effort you make in order to get something further down the road, after you’ve practiced long enough.
A practice is much more than that… Here’s George Leonard’s explanation for [...]

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I don’t understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.
-Jeff Beck
Take 15-30 minutes and examine your playing [...]

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