[this post is a lesson in the new Fundamentals of Picking course] If you’ve been awake for the last decade, you’ve probably heard someone say the phrase “ten thousand hours.” It’s the half-understood pop takeaway from a growing body of research on deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is the act of practicing the hard shit right […]

  Don’t be like me. My hope for you is that you will zoom along in the fast lane of guitar-learning for as long and as far as you want to take this road. But me? While I’ve seen the taillights of some fast-laners recede into the distance, I’ve been limping along the shoulder on […]

  This article is about some slightly heretical notions: Is the default picking method most of us use hindering our ability to play well? Are the people who attain badassery while picking this way badasses in spite of- and not because of- this technique? Is there a better method? If so, can people who’ve spent years […]

Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. It generally derives from observation. […] The term describes the academic study and analysis of fundamental elements of music… but also refers to descriptions.” [wikipedia, emphasis mine] I want to start by clearly stating what I mean when I say the words “music […]