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  • Courses:
    • Metronome Boot Camp
    • Practice Habits
    • Practical Theory
    • Playing The Changes
    • Effortless Ear Training
    • Building A Solo Show That Works
  • Articles

How To Spice Up Your Soloing With Chromaticism

February 6, 2021 by Josh Frets

If I throw a ball to you, your brain performs some fairly sophisticated calculus in order to catch it. But at no point are you formally running through equations with acceleration vectors and parabolas and all that shit. It’s automatic. And fun. You can use physics to describe playing catch with your kid. But math […]

Filed Under: Toolbox

Should You Buy Tom Quayle’s Sølo App?

January 14, 2021 by Josh Frets

A couple weeks ago, fusion guitarists Tom Quayle & David Beebee released a new guitar app called Sølo. In this review, we’ll cover: what it does why you might want that a brief tangent about “easy” who this is for what they did well with Sølo what still needs work what I think you should do […]

Filed Under: guitar, Toolbox

The $2k Gig Rig Challenge

December 19, 2020 by Josh Frets

Two years ago, someone broke into my car and stole all my gear. My guitars were in the house, but everything else was taken. So I filed an insurance claim and went shopping. Curiously, things were neatly divided into two distinct categories: No-brainer decisions where I simply re-bought the exact thing I had before. Things […]

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How To Figure Out
The Key Of A Song
(Plus: A Chart With All The Chords In Each Key)

November 19, 2020 by Josh Frets

    In GuitarOS: Practical Theory, we walk you through: how to ID notes on your fretboard by their actual names, which notes go into which keys, how to build simple & fancy chords, which chords belong in each key, what the “function” of each of those chords is, how chords are combined into progressions, […]

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Cory Wong’s Warmup—With TAB & Fretboard Diagrams

October 18, 2020 by Josh Frets

Over the summer, Reverb’s Joe Shadid got the first-hand lowdown on Cory Wong’s warmup routine. The video is chock-full of great practice ideas… that I didn’t implement. Maybe I’m just a weirdo, but seeing things written down makes them way more actionable for me. So I went through the video and wrote down each exercise. […]

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