by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Would you like to know why you should time your practice? The reason is to help you get MORE out of your daily practice amount. You see, it’s very likely you practice much LESS than you realise. Don’t believe me? OK, let me explain. How many times have you thought to...
by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Something I see a lot of people doing when they start trying to improve their picking is anchoring the fingers of their picking hand somewhere on the guitar.The most common way to do this this is too rest them on the body of the guitar or the pick guard.I’ve...
by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Want to know a picking question I get asked a lot by students? Which is better? Alternate picking or economy picking? This is a fair question, but it requires a bit of an elaborate answer. First of all, it all depends on what you mean by “better”. By...
by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Want to know what one of my favourite sayings is? “If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.” It’s important to have goals, it’s also important to have these goals broken up into achievable micro goals. But what’s even more important is to adopt guitar playing...
by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Are you avoiding working on something about your guitar playing that you’re not good at yet? Or maybe your guitar is sitting in the corner of a room gathering dust. If so, please know every day that comes to you is a day you can pick up your guitar or choose...
by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Fast, palm muted “galloping” groups of 3’s on the open low E string are a staple of hard rock and metal rhythm playing. These palm muted “gallops” earned their nickname by the way the sound like a horse galloping. Though this rhythm...