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Practice ≠ success.
One of the greatest tricks the devil ever played was making me think I had to practice many, many hours a day if I wanted to become a great guitarist and musician. I looked up to greats like Petrucci and Malmsteen, who claimed they’d practice 6 to 15 hours, every. single. day. Despite being some…
7 ‘Hidden Chords’ of Major/ Minor and how to use them
By now, you should know the order of diatonic chords in major and minor pretty well. Here’s a quick recap: Major: I ii iii IV V vi viidim Minor: i iidim III iv v (or V) VI VII (same order as major, just starting on vi). All there, at your convenience. Easy enough, right? Well,…
Music is storytelling. Tell your story.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been undertaking a study of Jimi Hendrix’s classic take on All Along The Watchtower with one of my students. Initially, the study was only due to take a couple of weeks, but it provided so many interesting points of discussion between myself and my student that it mutated into…
Simply Guitar 