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Everyone likes immediate gratification, the smile from a job well done. Delayed gratification requires more patience and is often a...

How do we get the material stored in our brains back out? We have a great storage capacity as humans. However, we often struggle to get...

How do we get material into our brains better? It is one of the many questions that anyone studying asks frequently. The answer is...

Learning is a skill that comes naturally to everyone. However, it doesn’t always go well when we decide to learn deliberately. As a...

One of the most challenging aspects of learning the guitar is the discipline of splitting everything apart to work on each aspect of what...

Putting it together, we can utilise each box and create the correct chord. With a little practice, we no longer are stuck when we see a...

We have covered the “box” for the 3rd and the “add” chords where we have a space in the box where the 6th or 7th resides. This time, we...

Last time we covered the box where the 3rd of the chord resided and looked at how moving the note changes the quality and sound of the...

In the last blog, I gave a taster that knowing a little bit of the theory of chords helps us change and create chords we have not learned...

This topic firmly falls within "should I learn music theory?". Music theory is a vast subject; it is up to individuals to decide how far...

Pentatonic scales frequently are criticised and thought of as purely for beginners, with some advanced players considering it beneath...

The first obvious question is left or right-handed guitar? It is not necessarily the case that a left-handed person plays a left-handed...

Those who look to take shortcuts are criticised and considered lazy. Yet, to achieve mastery, we must understand the most efficient way...

Not something that came naturally to me was strumming correctly. I had played the guitar for about 20 years and hit a wall with my...