by Craig | Feb 8, 2020 | Guitar Success Mindset
Let’s face it. Many of us (including myself) often feel discomfort when making big changes to the way that we do things. This is especially true when learning electric guitar. It’s all too easy to let our comfort zone and avoidance of discomfort stop us...
by Craig | Feb 3, 2020 | Guitar Practice Tips
In another article, we took a look at the overflow effect. If you’ve read that article you’ll remember how we activate the overflow effect by doing three things… Practising fewer things.Practice things on a VERY deep level.Practice things until you can...
by Craig | Feb 3, 2020 | Guitar Improvisation
In my teaching, I often help guitarists that are very frustrated with their guitar soloing. They’ve been practising scales, arpeggios and other musical materials for a long time but still feel that they lack the ability to solo in a musical way. Often they think...
by Craig | Feb 1, 2020 | Guitar Success Mindset
When I first started learning guitar I was a total practice maniac! I had no real structure to my practice. I just put in the hours and hoped that I got better. And I did. But there was a problem. I practised something different almost every day. My practice...
by Craig | Jan 31, 2020 | Guitar Improvisation
Quite a few years ago I was having my weekly lesson with my jazz guitar tutor, and he said something interesting to me… “If you learn one lick a week, in twenty years you’ll be able to play jazz”. Now, obviously, he wasn’t being totally serious...
