Learn guitar, music and more!
Newest
- Memorizing Classical (Guitar) Music: 24 Ideas for Deeper Mastery
- 7 Ideas for Playing Solo Jazz Guitar
- Important Skills: Negotiating
- Abundance and Zero-sum Mindsets – How Cognitive Bias and Distortion Affect Our Thinking
Musicality
- Play what you sing, sing what you play!
- Developing self-belief and overcoming self-doubt in music
- Habit Stacking and Music
- Develop New Practice Habits
- Positive Self-talk and Music
- Practice with the Pomodoro Technique
- 11 ideas for improving your musicality
- Try one of these 7 five minute practice sessions
- Protect your ears!
- Developing New Practice Habits
Musical Styles
- Beginner’s Course
- Learning to 2nd line with Rebirth Brass
- Learning to groove with Oscar Peterson, One & Two.
- Learn ‘So What’ by Miles Davis
- 30 Lessons in Jazz Guitar
- Learn to read music
- Creating jazz chords from major scales
- Focusing on better time, Part I and Part II
- Learn to play tumbao and a montuno simultaneously
- Check out videos of a Master Class with Hal Galper
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Philosophy
- Musicality before technicality
- Good technique + stay relaxed
- Play with people and records
- Make your own music
Welcome
Check out the progressive 12 lesson study method intended for the first 3-6 months of learning guitar. I’m also developing a 30-lesson intro to jazz guitar course!
There’s folk, reggae, blues, flamenco, rock and jazz.
The thoughts discusses ideas, some related to music.
And I am slowly adding lessons and ideas in Spanish. Hope you enjoy the site and drop me a line with ideas, comments, and suggestions! All the best to your musical journey!
Beginner’s Course
The main points for the beginner’s guitar course are:
- keep your hands relaxed
- keep your guitar in tune
- play in time, with the rhythm
- musicality always beats technicality
- practice too slow instead of too fast
- play along to records whenever you can
- play with other people whenever you can
Recordings
- Chill Latin Guitar Video
- Chill Acoustic Guitar Hip Hop Track
- New Chill Reggae Track | Summer Fall 2018 | Reggae Jazz Guitar
- Mazouk for Beach Dreamers (Recording)
- Playing classical music on steel string guitar
- New live recording – 2 acoustic guitars
- Live Recording – Viola, Guitar and Percussion – Romski Cocek