Improvisation is an essential part of improving your guitar technique. Although it sounds a simple thing to do, improvisation can be surprisingly difficult to master. The good news is that you can boost your improvisation and therefore enhance your guitar playing skills by adding drums to your sessions.

Here are some tips on how to use drums as part of your guitar improvisation.

Guitar players need to have flexible fingers to master all those different licks and riffs. Insufficient finger flexibility is one of the biggest things that can halt your progress and make the whole experience more frustrating and even painful.

But you don’t need to have long, sleek fingers to master guitar playing. As long...

Motivation is a wonderful thing to have, but all too often, it isn’t there when you need it the most. Even though guitar is a fantastic instrument to play, too often beginners stop playing after a while because the motivation to improve just isn’t the same once things get harder.

So, what can you do if you lack the motivation to continue with your  Read More

So you’ve picked up guitar and practised all the basic chords, perhaps you’ve even learned to play a specific song. But what happens next? How do you guarantee your skills keep improving and you’ll continue to progress more than just one song at a time?

Here are five ways to help you achieve just that.

1. Create a Daily Habit

Perhaps the most co...

Even the biggest fan of guitar music can occasionally end up feeling bored while playing the instrument. In order to progress, you need to play almost every day and go through the same things repeatedly. This will naturally feel repetitive very quickly and you might find tons of other more fun things to do.

But skipping practice can easily get you off the rails and halt your progress....

We humans tend to be a bit impatient. We don’t like things to take forever and that is certainly true for learning to play guitar. If you are a bit impatient, you don’t want to spend three weeks just learning the chord progression. But is there a way to speed up learning guitar? The good news is yes – you can make little changes to the way you practice and speed up your learni...