Coming Clean About My Practice ADDICTION (Patreon)

Let's be honest, practicing is no fun without results. The whole point of handling your hardwood is to realize your creative potential. In this lesson, I want to share how to make practice fun again. In fact, if you practice like this, you'll likely have trouble stopping muhahaha!

🛑 DON'T DO THIS

Let's say you'd like to work on your alternate picking. Many guitar players resort to exercises like the chromatic scale below. While this is effective, it's extremely un-musical and soul crushing. I remember congratulating myself for practicing the chromatic scale 8 hrs one day. Problem is, exercises like this don't help you jam with others, solo over tracks, or write your own songs. All they do is make the babes plug their ears muhahaha

⭐️ TRY THIS INSTEAD

We all started playing music because it made us FEEL something right? I wrote the exercise below to work on my picking chops. Because it sounds good, I want to play it over and over. This makes you look forward to practicing instead of dreading it. Before you know it, you're playing things you never thought possible

🎼 LICK BREAKDOWN

Just picking random notes to work on your chops sounds like nonsense. I knew I needed to outline a chords to make some real music. So I came up with a classical sounding chord progression (below). In order to make a lick convey a chord progression, you have to target the specific tones in each chord. For example, Bm has B-D and F#. You can see in the example above☝️ I start the picking lick on a B note. In the second measure, I'm repeatedly playing the 9th fret of the D string (B), to solidify B minor as the target chord. I cycled through each chord in the progression below👇 by focusing on the notes in each harmony. This makes all the difference between meaningless notes and lines that stir up powerful emotions!

Get the full tabs for my NEW Ultimate Guitar Workout #3 below. I'm super proud of this and am thinking about eventually release it as a single. The most powerful way to practice this routine is to open your guitar pro file and play along at a slow speed. Gradually increase the tempo until you get to 112 bpm. This piece is FULL of great practice licks, sweeping, picking and more! I'd love to hear your feedback muhahaha