Subject: Happy Labor Day 2018
Happy Labor Day 2018
September 3rd, 2018 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, We’re celebrating Labor Day here in The States today. The last day of Summer… Back to school for the kids (although most kids have already been back in school for at least a couple weeks)... The best part? We got a nice long wee ...
Another bird has flown...
August 29th, 2018 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, I was cleaning up my email inbox over the weekend and caught a message from the Rock Roll Hall of Fame… Ed King, former guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, passed away August 22nd. Now Mr. King’s name might not register with you, much li ...
Make it a habit
August 2nd, 2018 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, Doctors make the worst patients. That’s because they’re the first ones to totally disregard the advice they typically give to those in their care. They know what they SHOULD do, but often, they think they can take shortcuts because, ...
What do you think?
July 29th, 2018 at 9:37 am EDTHey Friend, When you are just starting out with guitar, what do you think is fundamentally more important to focus on? The physical aspects of guitar, or the mental? If you said physical, we’re on the same page. The mental side of things comes ...
Mindset reset...
July 22nd, 2018 at 8:28 am EDTHey guys, What do you do when you’ve fallen down? You get back up and “drive on,” as we used to say in the military. Did you have to think about it? Probably not… You just pick yourself up, dust off, and get back to doing what you were do ...
Happy 4th of July
July 4th, 2018 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, Woo, looks like it's going to be a nice hot one today! What a great day to celebrate Independence - no offense, my British friends. Eh, water under the bridge, right? ;-) We don't have big plans, just going to hang out by the pool and ...
Can you rely on that tab or video?
June 15th, 2018 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, Another point I want to make about learning songs on your own is, you can’t always rely on tabs or a video to be right - so you need to trust your own ears to hear what’s happening in a song. We’ve got it good - great, in fact. Th ...
Figure it out… yourself.
June 7th, 2018 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, Naw, I’m not trying to be rude. But sometimes you’ve got to step up and take some ownership. There’s never been a better time in history to learn how to play a musical instrument. There are tons of paid and free online instructi ...
Music is flexible...
June 1st, 2018 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, Over the past couple months, we’ve looked at a bunch of different techniques to handle the picking side of playing. We tried simple patterns using only down and upstrokes, alternate and sweep picking, even fingerstyle techniques. I ...
Moving bass notes...
May 27th, 2018 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, Sorry, I ran out of time Friday as I was working on creating the exercise you’re getting today. It’s the dang j.o.b. - that thing is a total killjoy, I tell ya! I would much rather have stayed home and worked on this exercise for yo ...