Tonight at 7:45: How do you find a great music teacher? AND your questions.
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 ...
7:45 tonight - Fame vs Skill discussion and your questions!
To 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 ...
Seriously 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 ...
Green and Darker Green | What should I be working on, part 4
So 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. ...
Moving Fuchsia to Green | What should I be working on, part 3
You 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 ...
Practicing in the red zone - what should I be working on, part 2
Look 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) ...
How 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 ...