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November 2014

Chord Building – Free Email Course

October 2014

Can We Please Stop Calling These Things “Modes”?

September 2014

Circle of Fifths Free Email Course

August 2014

The Fun Way To Learn The Note Names: FREE Email Course

July 2014

What Separates The Pros From The Merely Good (Hint: It’s Completely Illegible To Anyone Who’s Not Already A Pro)

What Would A Perfect Guitar Instructional Book/Course Look Like?

June 2014

Tour Bus Cooking: An Unusual Gear Post

Shapes vs Names: Using Guitar’s Greatest Strength To Overcome Its Greatest Weakness

May 2014

Guitarists: John Mayer Said Something To Chick Corea That You Desperately Need To Hear

Staying Healthy On Tour: 7 Strategies For Working Out & Eating Healthy On The Road

April 2014

Explaining The Infield Fly Rule To a Foreigner: Theory Can’t Be Taught On a Need-To-Know Basis

Melodic Style Guitar: Stealing From Banjo & Ukulele

Guitar Badassery, Defined

Learning Guitar As An Adult: Five Obstacles You’ll Face (And How To Beat Them)

Flipping The Guitar Lesson: Stealing Education’s Latest & Greatest Development

March 2014

Strategy vs Tactics: How To Cut Through The Fog Of Useless Guitar Information

The Best Players Are Rarely The Best Teachers

3 Unexpected Reasons Why You Should Be Trying To Get Paid For Making Music

Are Metal Guitarists Overrepresented As Teachers?

Learning Jazz Guitar: 10 Things I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me

Finding The Best Sequence: A Checklist For Learning Guitar

Switching Chords: A Better Way To Learn (and Teach)

February 2014

10X: How To Practice Ten Times More… In The Same Amount of Time

Why Learning Modes Is A Waste Of Your Time

How To Remember More: Two Simple Strategies To Improve Your Memory 

Why I Run a Click At My Solo–And Why You Should Too

5 Slick Ways to Practice With a DAW

You Need Better Friends

A Parent’s Guide To Getting Your Money’s Worth From Music Lessons

January 2014

When To Take a Shortcut: a Flowchart

Reading Music For Guitarists: 5 Incredibly Important Things No One Ever Told You

Introducing The Superclick

Hard Work vs Work That’s Hard

Don’t Work Harder, Work More Consistently

How I Fixed My Broken Posture: Essential Daily Exercises To Fight Guitar Player’s Posture

Mini Sprints

Sprints > Resolutions

December 2013

Year In Review 2013

Quit Making New Year’s Resolutions

A Quick Note On The Importance of Streaks

The Best Guitar Lesson I Ever Got Came From a Cookbook

80/20 Guitar

Navigating The Fretboard With Dead Reckoning & Pilotage

Mo’ Better Blues

Learning An Instrument In The Age of Instant Gratification: Thoughts On The Tim Ferriss Experiment

November 2013

The Fun Way to Learn Note Names, Part 2

Shave Years Off Your Learning Curve With Lessons From These Five Books

The Fun Way to Learn the Names of the Notes On Your Guitar

Plugging Holes

You’re Doing It Wrong: Learn Guitar In the Right Order

Your Brain Is Lying To You: How You’re Failing At Guitar

10 Guitar Lessons Hidden In Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Traumatic Brain Injury vs Stubbed Toes

 

October 2013

Cruft, Technical Debt, & Your Guitar Playing

How To Take Guitar Lessons

The Guitar To-Do List

September 2013

Principles of Guitar Learning

An Angry Rant About Everything Wrong With The Way Guitar Is Taught

Shiny Object Syndrome

Cartoon Gravity

Ten Mistakes You’re Making With your Metronome

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