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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 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
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
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
Don’t Work Harder, Work More Consistently
How I Fixed My Broken Posture: Essential Daily Exercises To Fight Guitar Player’s Posture
December 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
Navigating The Fretboard With Dead Reckoning & Pilotage
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
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
September 2013
An Angry Rant About Everything Wrong With The Way Guitar Is Taught