What do you look for, what do you avoid in an instructor. What does a great private lesson teacher needs? How do you find that person? What are great optional attributes, what would keep me away from a certain teacher? It’s a tough journey, finding a mentor, that inspires ...
Read MoreI’ll be talking tonight at 7:45 pm on whether we should to learn licks and riffs or not, and how to get the most out of that effort if we should ...
View MoreTo Play and Sing - Open livestream Tuesdays at 7:45 pm on whether we should pursue fame or skill – or is it possible to do both? How does one become ...
View MoreReminding all about the new format – Open livestream Tuesdays (tonight) at 7:45 pm on Mark Teaches Music. And then an adlibbing VIDEO released ...
View MoreSeriously here, I'm not talking about the amount of time you spend, though that is important. I'm talking about how you spend your practice time and ...
View MoreWhat is music? The OED says "Music is vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and ...
View MoreSo the idea is to work on songs that are somewhat beyond you until they are within your grasp. But oddly enough, boredom and creativity are brothers. ...
View MoreYou are practicing to try and pull yourself up ability-wise, so you should be choosing songs to work on that are 5 to 10% above your present abilities ...
View MoreLook at the red square of my blurry diagram below - Licks/Study. (Notice on the diagram all the levels are in relation to what's hard or easy TO YOU) ...
View MoreHow hard should the songs I work on be? One way to answer this is what are you trying to accomplish with this song, what is this song supposed to do ...
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