We live in a golden age of guitar gear. Everywhere you look there’s a cool new gadget that redefines our price-vs-quality expectations. The trouble is, it’s such a fast-moving field that we can easily spend an hour (or more) each day “researching” gear. And really, we ought to be spending that time actually playing guitar. […]
Learn To Think In Intervals With The Same/Adjacent/Octave Rule
If I showed you these two notes, would you know what the interval is between them? What about these two? If yes, great. Carry on with what you were doing. But if no? Then let me show you: how to figure these intervals out quickly, and why you would even care about doing so. The […]
Want To Pick Faster? Fix Your Legato.
In this lesson, I synthesize ideas from: Tomo Fujita, Troy Grady, Tim Ferriss, Josh Waitzkin, & Eliyahu Goldratt… …to fix an invisible bottleneck that constrains our picking speed: hand sync. The Theory Of Constraints says that: a system can only have one bottleneck at any given time, and improving the system in an area that’s […]
Pros and badasses all do this. Do you?
Hands down, the best thing you can do for your guitar playing & musicianship is this: Stop looking up TABs. Stop searching YouTube for tutorials. Start learning songs BY EAR. But Josh! I’ve Never Transcribed Before! Where Do I Start? Photo by Josh Sorenson on Unsplash About ten years back, I switched from multi-blade Gillette razors to old […]
Learn Songs By Ear Faster & Easier Using ReWire
hate reading? skip ahead to the video For years now, I’ve been using (and recommending) the app Transcribe for people trying to learn songs by ear. It’s still a decent choice, but with each passing year, it gets a little further behind the times (and its interface has always struck me as unreasonably ugly). Lately […]