Triads are an integral music concept for guitar and all other musical instruments. Whether you’re creating chords, arpeggios, or building great solos and improvisations, triads are an important step in leveling up your guitar playing. Guitar triads are fairly easy to memorize, and the shapes are easy to play. 💡In this lesson, you’ll learn what triads are, how guitar triads look, how to use them in a Major Key using Major, minor, and diminished triads. …
40 Day Guitar Practice Challenge
Are you ready to take your guitar playing to the next level? Let’s do it together! A Guitar Practice Challenge. I’m working on a new Guitar Practice Challenge for 2025. New Years resolutions can be cliche but what’s wrong with trying to better yourself, whether it’s a hobby, your health or the desire to become a better guitarist? For beginning guitarists, improvement can be a measured by leaps and bounds almost daily. Intermediate and advanced …
10 Tips For Playing Live In A Band
Performing live can be scary for new musicians – especially if it’s your first gig. I’ve been playing live now for a little over 27 years now. Thousands of gigs! (Thats me in the pic above playing live at The Gaylord Palms, Orlando in 2013) I’m still learning.. and like any good musician, you should be too! If you want your live performances to go smoothly, make sure to avoid some of these common mistakes. …
Guitar Practice Routines – An Interview with 5 Pro Guitarists
While on my ‘Virtual Book Tour’ promoting The 7 Day Practice Routine For Guitarists, it occurred to me to ’round-up’ some of my favorite players both Local and National to talk a bit about what they practice on a daily basis. These guitarists are as formidable in 2024 as they were when this article was first published a few years back. As much as I love playing and teaching the guitar… I also really love …
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View PostGuitar Arpeggios – The 7 Day Practice Routine
Hey, it’s Arpeggio day! In this lesson we’re going to change it up by doing some Guitar Arpeggios and sequences for guitar. You can grab these guitar arpeggios in PDF, TAB, or download below. If you missed the first 2 installments of the guitar practice routine, you can find them here: 7 Day Guitar Practice Routine: Day 1 – Warmups7 Day Guitar Practice Routine: Day 2 – Modal Workout Guitar Arpeggios Table of Contents If …
Benefits of Learning Music for Kids and Young Children
What do you do when your kid is enthusiastic about playing a guitar. What about another musical instrument such as piano or violin? Or, (yikes) drums? The are so many benefits of learning music for kids despite the challenges that can arise as a parent. Very few of us look forward to the prospect of listening to children practice a screechy violin or tunelessly practice the recorder. Nevertheless, once they get a little better, it …
20 Essential Picking Exercises For Guitar
Alternate picking for guitarists may seem like something we all take for granted. Most guitarists, even complete beginners alternate some down and up strokes naturally whether they are consciously doing it or not. How to hold a guitar pick is equally important too. As we develop our picking hand, alternate picking can open a whole new world of techniques and music not obtainable otherwise. Even if you’re familiar with alternate picking, it can often be …
Pentatonic Scales For Guitar
Pentatonic Scales for Guitar Pentatonic scales are simultaneously the most used and sometimes most purposely avoided of all scales on the guitar. In all of my years of teaching guitar lessons, I’ve found there are typically 2 kinds of guitarists: Pentatonic Scale Music Pentatonic scale music is most commonly found in Blues, Jazz, Rock, and Metal, but can often be heard in other styles as I’ll explain below. It’s just a 5 note scale that …
Five Essential Warm-Up Exercises for Guitar
Guitar warm-ups are an essential part of playing guitar or really any musical instrument, especially as we get older. Warming up both hands prior to a long practice session, rehearsal, or gig is essential. Guitar warm-up exercises build strength and dexterity while also helping to prevent common injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome. These types of guitar exercises can be deceptively simple to learn, yet technically complex to master. Despite being done in only 10-15 …