Subject: A Simple Pattern To Build Your Soloing Chops
A Simple Pattern To Build Your Soloing Chops
January 21st, 2018 at 9:03 am EDTHey Friend, The past couple of emails I’ve sent have been a bit long on extolling the virtues of recognizing patterns in your playing (as well as your life). There are big pattern shifts that can lead to major changes in your life, and there are ...
The Tyranny of Patterns (Habits)
January 19th, 2018 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, What patterns are holding you back and keeping you from accomplishing your guitar goals? Noodling? Not practicing? Not using a metronome? Youtube surfing? Lack of a schedule? See, we have good patterns - those that help us move towar ...
Break The Mold
January 17th, 2018 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, Have you ever given any thought to how patterns shape our lives? Nearly everything we do can be equated to a pattern:The morning routine The daily commute The weekly meeting Get up, go to work, come home, go to bed... Your pattern mig ...
Adding The Major Third
January 14th, 2018 at 1:22 pm EDTHey Friend, Hope your Sunday is going well! I created some exercises for you showing how you can harmonize notes in a scale. Add Major Third PDF Add Major Third MP3 In the first system (the first of the three sections), the C major scale is bee ...
Spice Up Your Scales
January 12th, 2018 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Happy Friday! The exercise I sent out Wednesday can help you accomplish a few things, including helping you stretch your fingers and getting you familiarized with the fingerboard. Here it is again in case you missed it: Crawling C ...
Try This Exercise on for Size
January 10th, 2018 at 1:29 pm EDTHey Friend, Sorry for the lateness of this... How did you do figuring out the melody from your favorite song? Did you try "Ode To Joy" or "Stairway To Heaven?” You can review the tabs for their melodies here. Ode To Joy PDF Ode To Joy MP3 Stai ...
Two Extremely Cool Guitar Learning Resources
January 7th, 2018 at 11:37 am EDTHey Friend, Good morning! Hope your weekend is going well. I decided to undertake the massive job of flipping my office around to see if I could create a better workflow. Of course, half the process is tearing everything apart so you can then put i ...
Dig a Hole
January 5th, 2018 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, When you’re starting anything new, you need to begin with a foundation. The first thing that needs to happen with most building projects is to dig a hole. You’re building a skill set when it comes to guitar, so the first thing to do ...
Start With the Foundation
January 3rd, 2018 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, Happy New Year to you! Today is the first official email of the year. Admittedly, it's been a little tough on me - I'm used to sending a message every day, so I'm having to detox a little! I thought we'd talk a bit about some of the t ...