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- Why Most Guitar Teachers Can’t Get A Lot Of Guitar Students - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2017 from Tom HessYou get a lot of guitar students by not making the same excuses as most guitar teachers. When you believe there is an excuse (outside your control) for your failure to get students, you never take the action needed to get them. Understanding why these excuses are wrong makes it easier for you to ...
Views: 849 - >Why Musicians SHOULD Aspire To Earn As Much Money As Possible - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2017 from Tom HessNo one has the goal of becoming a “starving artist” in music. Making enough money to pay the bills in music is a worthy goal for many, but is it enough? For many musicians, simply making enough money to get by will NOT help them achieve their ultimate musical goals. These are the ...
Views: 669 - 3 Things That Separate Great Guitar Players From Everyone Else - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2017 from Tom Hess3 Things That Separate Great Guitar Players From Everyone Else By Tom Hess Want to become a great guitar player? There are 3 HUGE differences between great guitarists and mediocre guitarists. Get started becoming a great guitarist by learning them: Great Guitar Players Stay Focused ...
Views: 827 - How To Play Guitar Amazing During Real-Life Situations - by Submitted on Dec 19, 2016 from Tom HessWhat is the most effective way to see how well you can play a certain thing on guitar? Answer: see how well you can play when in live situations – This is what I call “real life guitar playing”. Real-life guitar playing can best be described as the ...
Views: 1260 - Seven Guitar Teaching Mistakes That Reduce Your Income And Limit Your Guitar Students’ Progress - by Submitted on Dec 19, 2016 from Tom HessTo grow a successful guitar teaching business, you should understand: *The correct action steps you must take in order to grow your business and effectively teach your guitar students. *How to take every step in the most efficient manner. *The correct order to take these steps in, in ...
Views: 715 - How To Correct Guitar Mistakes That Happen While Playing At Fast Speeds - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2016 from Tom HessHow To Correct Guitar Mistakes That Happen While Playing At Fast Speeds By Tom Hess So your guitar playing becomes sloppy when you play fast… what should you do? It’s a common approach to practice very slowly while trying to solve mistakes… then build speed over time. ...
Views: 647 - How To Master Guitar Technique And Play Guitar Fast And Clean - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2016 from Tom HessHow To Master Guitar Technique And Play Guitar Fast And Clean By Tom Hess What do you need to do in order to completely master guitar technique and increase speed? Here’s a hint: you don’t need to practice for 8 hours a day. Instead, you need to practice the right things, at ...
Views: 985 - 5 Guitar Practice Habits That Improve Your Guitar Playing Skills - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2016 from Tom Hess5 Guitar Practice Habits That Improve Your Guitar Playing Skills By Tom Hess Simply put, the kind of guitar practice habits you have determine the amount of musical progress you make. Good guitar practice habits fix your problems and help you to become a better guitarist in less time. ...
Views: 959 - Top 6 Guitar Teaching Questions To Help You Get More Guitar Students - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2016 from Tom HessWish you had tons of guitar students? Here is the first thing you should do (if you haven’t done it already): STOP copying what other guitar teachers in your area are doing. A lot of guitar teachers set themselves up for failure whenever they try to attract new students. They seek answers ...
Views: 794 - 5 Music Business Lies That Hurt Your Music Career - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2016 from Tom HessWish your music career was moving ahead much faster? Stop accepting these false claims about the music industry: Music Career Myth #1: You have to be generally young to get far in the music industry. Reality: People and bands in the music business don’t care much about age. There ...
Views: 1169 - How To Improve Sloppy Guitar Technique & Make Your Guitar Playing Accurate And Clean - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2016 from Tom HessHow To Improve Sloppy Guitar Technique & Make Your Guitar Playing Accurate And Clean By Tom Hess Whenever you make a mistake in your guitar playing it’s likely due to poor technique. Poor technique makes your playing sound sloppy and slows down your progress. To fix this, you ...
Views: 1625 - How To Create A Thriving Guitar Teaching Business - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2016 from Tom HessTo create a thriving guitar teaching business, you have to do the following things: 1. Get tons of new students each month. 2. Use proven and effective guitar teaching models. 3. Retain your students for long periods of time. 4. Get your students to advance in their skills quickly. 5. ...
Views: 766 - 5 Main Parts Of Effective Guitar Practice Routines That Make Your Guitar Playing Better - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2016 from Tom HessYou become a great guitar player very quickly when you use effective guitar practice schedules. Any solid guitar practicing schedule is made up of five made elements that improve your guitar skills: Guitar Practice Element #1: Skill Progression It’s critical that your guitar ...
Views: 851 - Guitar Playing Test For Reaching Musical Goals - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2016 from Tom HessThink you know a lot about becoming a great guitarist? There exist tons of myths regarding playing making improvement through practice. Guitar players who believe in these myths almost never achieve their musical goals. Guitarists who learn how things really are, make fast progress and become ...
Views: 1089 - How To Play Rhythm Guitar Like A Professional - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2016 from Tom HessEver wonder how some guitarists seem to be able to play with excellent rhythm guitar timing while others just can’t? To do this, do you have to learn a bunch of riffs? Do you need practice with a band or get good with using a metronome? The answer is no. Excellent rhythm guitar skills ...
Views: 890 - How To Easily Make Cool Guitar Licks For Your Solos And Improvisations - by Submitted on Aug 08, 2016 from Tom HessHow To Easily Make Cool Guitar Licks For Your Solos And Improvisations By Tom Hess To get better at improvising guitar solos, you need to make ideas that: -Tie-in well with all of the other ideas in your guitar solo -Express the precise emotions you want them to express Tons ...
Views: 822 - Why Beating Your Music Career Competitors Is Simple…Here Is How To Do it - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2016 from Tom HessComplete this instant music industry quiz: True or false: You compete with countless musicians in order to get the music industry opportunities you desire. True or false: One of the greatest obstacles in the music industry is beating the massive competition in your way so you can make ...
Views: 737 - How Directional Picking Makes Fast Guitar Playing A Lot Easier - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2016 from Tom HessHow Directional Picking Makes Fast Guitar Playing A Lot Easier by Tom Hess As soon as you use efficient picking technique, fast guitar playing begins to feel very easy. Directional picking makes fast guitar playing totally effortless. How? The picking motions used are smaller and quicker ...
Views: 1949 - 3 Errors You Must Avoid Whenever You Play Scales On Guitar - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2016 from Tom Hess3 Errors You Must Avoid Whenever You Play Scales On Guitar by Tom Hess Scales are very important for your guitar playing (as I’m sure you already know), yet so many guitarists never actually learn how to practice them efficiently. As a result, they are unable to improvise well and ...
Views: 682 - How To Play Emotional Guitar Solos By Analyzing The Singing Techniques Of King Diamond - Part 2 - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2016 from Tom HessClosely analyzing the vocal phrasing of amazing singers is helpful for making your lead guitar playing more emotional. The first part of this article series, you were shown four ways to use King Diamond’s melodic singing style to improve your lead guitar playing. The following ...
Views: 932 - How To Play Amazing Guitar Arpeggios (Without Playing Super Fast) - by Submitted on May 30, 2016 from Tom HessHow To Play Amazing Guitar Arpeggios (Without Playing Super Fast) by Tom Hess You don’t have to blaze through sweep picking arpeggios at high speeds to make them sound great. Instead you can use creative exercises to make them sound musical (AND badass). The following video ...
Views: 999 - 15 Major Guitar Teaching Mistakes You Must Avoid - by Submitted on May 26, 2016 from Tom HessThe most effective way of becoming a better guitar teacher is NOT to make the most common mistakes others make when they teach guitar. By doing this, your students will quickly become great players and take lessons with you for longer periods of time. Don’t make these common guitar ...
Views: 569 - How To Improve Your Guitar Playing Fast With Circuit Training - by Submitted on May 20, 2016 from Tom HessWant to enjoy your guitar practice more and make more progress? Use circuit training as a major part of your guitar practicing routine. This type of training use various exercises in a particular way for a pre-determined amount of time. The following process describes how circuit training ...
Views: 836 - This Guitar Practice Approach Fixes Your Guitar Playing Problems - by Submitted on May 09, 2016 from Tom HessThis Guitar Practice Approach Fixes Your Guitar Playing Problems by Tom Hess If you want to make really fast improvement in your guitar playing, you’ll have to learn how to fix problems as you practice. Merely playing through the same exercise again and again is not effective. ...
Views: 662 - What You Should Do If Your Guitar Practice Isn’t Any Fun - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2016 from Tom HessAre you no longer having fun during your guitar practice time? If so, you will get much slower results (if any) for these reasons: 1. When you feel bored or tired, you are going to practice less. When you spend less time practicing guitar, you make much slower progress. 2. In some cases, ...
Views: 907 - How To Write Awesome Guitar Solos And Play Guitar With A Lot More Passion - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2016 from Tom HessMost guitarists can’t make their guitar playing sound emotional for these reasons: Reason One: They have not tried to improve their creativity as an actual skill. Instead, they can only be as creative as the licks they have memorized. Reason Two: They don’t know how to ...
Views: 805 - The Crucial Factor That Determines If Your Music Career Will Be A Success - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2016 from Tom HessWhat is the main factor that determines whether your music career will be a success or a failure? The answer is: The type of mindset you have. How much success you have in music is entirely determined by the decisions you make and the specific actions you take in your life. Both your ...
Views: 1001 - Why Generic Guitar Teaching Methods Suck And How To Quickly Transform Your Guitar Students Into Great Players - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2016 from Tom HessThe majority of guitar teachers use general guitar learning books or methods to try to teach their students. Unless you only teach beginning guitar students, you are going to face these major problems in your guitar teaching: 1. Your students won’t make a lot of progress on guitar and ...
Views: 1200 - The Worst Misconception Guitarists Have About Taking Guitar Lessons With A Teacher - by Submitted on Feb 29, 2016 from Tom HessThe Worst Misconception Guitarists Have About Taking Guitar Lessons With A Teacher By Tom Hess What is the most crucial role of any great guitar teacher? You might be thinking that it is: “To teach students a bunch of interesting things to play like songs, techniques or other ...
Views: 772 - Five Incorrect Questions Guitar Players Often Ask And What You SHOULD Be Asking Instead - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2016 from Tom HessFive Incorrect Questions Guitar Players Often Ask And What You SHOULD Be Asking Instead To Become A Great Guitarist By Tom Hess A large percentage of guitarists ask incomplete and misinformed questions in order to fix the issues that prevent them from making fast progress in their ...
Views: 1033 - Five Questions You Should Ask If You Are Serious About Building A Music Career - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2016 from Tom HessA great deal of musicians are unconsciously looking for the answers to questions they really shouldn’t be asking. These questions are all based on false assumptions about the how building a music career works. Looking for the correct answers to the wrong questions will never help you ...
Views: 734 - Five Ways To Motivate Your Guitar Students To Practice More - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2016 from Tom HessWhat do you think is the most important skill your guitar students have to learn from you in order to become excellent musicians as fast as possible? Think it’s guitar soloing? Maybe it’s songwriting? Perhaps it’s aural skills? Or is it improvising? Here is the answer you ...
Views: 1580 - Four Mistakes Guitarists Make When Preparing For Live Performance & How To Avoid Them Before You Go On Stage - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2016 from Tom HessDo you get nervous when performing live in front of other people? You’re not the only one... Almost all people go through this same kind of anxiety! However, things do not need to continue like this for you. Once you understand how to practice and prepare for live guitar performances the ...
Views: 1073 - How To Dramatically Improve Your Guitar Playing And Reach Your Musical Goals Fast - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2015 from Tom HessHow To Dramatically Improve Your Guitar Playing And Reach Your Musical Goals Fast Most guitarists have no idea which of their guitar practice exercises are improving their guitar playing and which ones aren’t. Consequently, they constantly struggle to get better at guitar and end up ...
Views: 959 - Transform Boring Arpeggios Into Highly Creative Sweep Picking Guitar Licks - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2015 from Tom HessTransform Boring Arpeggios Into Highly Creative Sweep Picking Guitar Licks By Tom Hess Do you want to make your sweep picking licks more creative? Do the following: focus more on creatively applying the arpeggio patterns you already know into music rather than seeking out as many new ...
Views: 1876 - Why Most Guitar Teachers Never Achieve Success & How You Can - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2015 from Tom HessStatistics have shown that the majority of guitar teachers do not succeed with their teaching businesses. Most guitar teachers have just a few really great students (if they actually have any) - and for most of them, a $60,000 per year income seems like a distant dream. Most of these teachers ...
Views: 839 - How To Play Amazing Lead Guitar Solos By Learning From King Diamond - Part 1 - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2015 from Tom HessBelieve it or not, singers can help you become a much better lead guitarist. The majority of guitarists never think about studying singer to improve their soloing skills... instead they attempt to get better by building speed, learning new licks or looking up new scale positions. Fact is, once ...
Views: 884 - How To Play With Better Metal Rhythm Guitar Technique - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2015 from Tom HessWant to know how to play with awesome rhythm guitar technique? Stop trying to “learn random guitar riffs to play” and get started learning how to make ANY guitar riff sound totally killer. Remember, it’s not WHAT you play – it’s how you play it! Here are five ...
Views: 761 - How To Become An Incredible Guitar Player - Part 2 – Three Reasons Why You Haven’t Become A Great Musician - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2015 from Tom HessHow To Become An Incredible Guitar Player - Part 2 – Three Reasons Why You Haven’t Become A Great Musician by Tom Hess What’s stopping you from being a great guitarist? Do you have undeveloped playing technique? Poor musical creativity? Didn’t begin with lots of ...
Views: 788 - How To Prepare Your Guitar Playing For A Performance - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2015 from Tom HessIf you’re tired of making mistakes or being nervous about performing live, I have some good news for you. ALL guitar playing mistakes come from a lack of practice (or ineffective practice). “Wait, Tom. How is that GOOD?” It’s good because knowing this gives you all of ...
Views: 1287 - 5 Secrets Of Professional Musicians That Will Help You Grow A Career In Music - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2015 from Tom HessHave you ever wondered how some musicians become highly successful? Although not all successful musicians take the same path to achieve their dreams, every one of them follows the very same fundamental principles to become more successful. Here are the five things all professional musicians ...
Views: 684 - 5 Secrets Of Professional Musicians That Will Help You Grow A Career In Music - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2015 from Tom HessHave you ever wondered how some musicians become highly successful? Although not all successful musicians take the same path to achieve their dreams, every one of them follows the very same fundamental principles to become more successful. Here are the five things all professional musicians ...
Views: 844 - How To Quit Your Current Job & Teach Guitar Instead - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2015 from Tom HessHow To Leave Your Day Job & Teach Guitar For A Living In The Least Risky Way Possible By Tom Hess Are you sick and tired of working at your current job? As a guitar player, you already understand that this type of job prevents you from spending as much time as you’d like with ...
Views: 773 - Nine Things That Hurt Your Guitar Playing Progress - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2015 from Tom HessDo you feel frustrated because your guitar playing progress is too slow? If you are like the vast majority of guitar players, you’re looking for the right things to do that will make you a better guitarist. However, you probably are NOT looking for the things that hurt your guitar playing ...
Views: 1054 - The Easiest Way To Make More Progress On Guitar - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2015 from Tom HessWhether you are an advanced guitarist or you are just starting, there is one thing that can help you gain massive results from your guitar practice and enhance your motivation for practicing every day. This powerful technique is: tracking each aspect of your guitar playing progress on a regular ...
Views: 1122 - How To Play With Clean & Articulate Legato Guitar Technique - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2015 from Tom HessHow To Play Clean & Articulate Legato Guitar Technique By Tom Hess Wish you could play legato guitar licks with much better technique? Well, you don’t have to seek out any special licks to do this - you need to learn the best way to practice legato efficiently as the great ...
Views: 1291 - The Biggest Reason That Separates Great Guitar Players From Mediocre Guitar Players - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2015 from Tom HessWhat do you think separates great guitarists from average guitarists? Hint: It has nothing to with guitar technique or the amount of time your practice each day. In fact, the answer is so simple you have probably overlooked it: The Secret To Becoming A Great Guitarist It is commonly ...
Views: 2050 - Why You Lack Emotion In Your Guitar Playing - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2015 from Tom HessEver wonder why guitar players struggle to express themselves? It is not that they don’t know enough guitar licks or scales or that they lack natural talent. Truth is, most guitarist do not even attempt to improve their ability to express emotion in their playing. If you neglect ...
Views: 1249 - How To Quickly Get More Music Gigs - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2015 from Tom HessHow To Quickly Get More Music Gigs By Tom Hess Having difficulty getting new gigs? You might be holding yourself back due to holding one or more limiting beliefs such as “venues aren’t looking for bands right now,” or “the competition is too great for my band to ...
Views: 877 - 4 Mistakes Guitar Teachers Make In Their Guitar Lesson Ads And How To Avoid Them - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2015 from Tom HessEver felt like your guitar lesson ads are no longer bringing you new guitar students? You’re not the only one! This is a common problem most guitar teachers face, and many of them think their ads are “not reaching enough people” or that there is “a lack of people who ...
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