About Learning Grooves and Guitar Strums

Here's a quick, yet important, note about practicing rhythms. Rhythm patterns should be practiced to a steady pulse, whether a drum mach...

Guitar & Bass: Which Way is Up?

Learning what “up or down the neck” means is one of the funniest things about learning beginning bass and guitar. This has perplexed and e...

Practicing at the Right Speed

The purpose of practicing is to gain control over some element of music, whether ear training, technique or an isolated passage or riff. Par...

Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument

Be there. Have your attention on what you are doing. Be willing to learn something and accept the fact that it probably won’t happen over a ...