Have 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: 812
Do you know exactly how much your guitar practice exercises are helping you to improve your guitar playing (or if they are at all)? Most guitarists tend to think that MORE exercises will help them improve…this is false. To start seeing big improvements in your guitar playing, you need to follow ... Views: 811
Why Guitar Players With Less Practice Time Don’t Make Much Progress
By Tom Hess
It’s just an excuse when guitarists say they aren’t getting better due to having limited time to practice guitar. These are the true reasons why these guitarists struggle:
1. Not Even ... Views: 809
Want 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: 808
How To Stop Wasting 40-70% Of Your Guitar Practice Time And Become A Better Guitarist Faster
by Tom Hess
The greatest challenge you’ll face when it comes to attaining your guitar playing goals is NOT “too little practice time” ...nor is it “not knowing ... Views: 808
Ever 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 ... Views: 802
Five Additional Reasons Why So Many Guitar Teachers Won’t Ever Make Good Money & How You Can Be The Guitar Who Does
By Tom Hess
Making a crazy amount of money as a guitar teacher is much easier than you think. With this in mind – most guitar teachers will probably only ... Views: 797
3 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: 793
How 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: 791
Most 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: 778
How 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: 768
Wish 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: 768
Three Reasons Why You Feel Unmotivated To Practice Guitar
By Tom Hess
There are several key reasons why you lose motivation to practice guitar. Knowing them is the first step to changing your practice approach and getting better results.
These are 3 major causes of a lack of ... Views: 763
Why You Should Forget About Natural Talent For Guitar
By Tom Hess
Want to quickly become a great guitar player? Don’t allow yourself to become consumed with thoughts of whether you are naturally talented or not. There are three main reasons why focusing on natural talent slows down ... Views: 755
3 Big Myths About Using A Metronome For Guitar Practice
By Tom Hess
Most advice about practicing guitar with a metronome causes ineffective practice, mistakes and slower progress. Get more results from your guitar practice by staying away from these 3 myths:
Myth #1: Using A ... Views: 748
Having great musical talent is NOT enough to grow a successful music career. Here are the top 3 reasons why your music career fails even when you are musically talented:
1. You Don’t Know How The Music Business Works
The music business is called a business for a reason. To succeed ... Views: 748
How To Train Your Guitar Students To Become Excellent Guitarists
By Tom Hess
The best guitar teachers do much more than simply teach guitar. To become a great guitar teacher, you also need to:
*Help your students make progress and gain motivation to practice by training them on how ... Views: 747
How 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: 744
How To Eliminate Sloppy Mistakes From Your Guitar Technique And Sound Great Every Time You Play Your Guitar
By Tom Hess
You’ve probably experienced days when your guitar playing felt effortless and sounded great… This probably made you feel motivated and excited to get ... Views: 743
Solving your guitar students’ musical problems helps them make progress and feel motivated to get better. When you are unable to do this, they quickly become frustrated and eventually quit taking lessons with you. This makes learning how to effectively solve their problems absolutely ... Views: 742
The 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: 738
Having a difficult time playing guitar cleanly at fast speeds? This is likely because you're making the same mistakes many other guitar players make. Here are 3 big reasons why guitar players struggle to play clean at fast speeds:
Reason #1. They Spend Most Of Their Time Looking For New ... Views: 728
How To End Your “Guitar Teaching Insanity” & Finally Make A Great Income Teaching Guitar
By Tom Hess
Albert Einstein defined insanity as: “repeating the same mistakes over and over while hoping to get alternate results.” The unfortunate truth is, this is what ... Views: 728
To 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: 724
Want 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: 723
Why Most Musicians Fail In The Music Business
By Tom Hess
Many musicians want to be successful in the music industry, but few ever make it. The majority end up frustrated, broke and working a dead-end day job to pay the bills.
Here are 3 common reasons why musicians often fail in the ... Views: 716
A 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: 706
Complete 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: 705
Integrating musical skills together in a fluent manner is key for becoming a better guitarist. Integration is:
*Knowing how to combine skills (or techniques) with different concepts and skills.
*Practicing creativity as you improve your skills.
Watch the video below to learn how to ... Views: 701
Wish you knew how to play guitar super-fast without making so many mistakes? To be able to do it, you need to focus more on increasing your usable speed versus increasing your potential speed.
This video explains the what distinguishes potential guitar speed from usable guitar ... Views: 701
It’s easier to make fast progress to become a great rock guitar player when you avoid the common mistakes others make. For example, most guitarists believe in one or more rock guitar playing myths that prevent them from getting better.
Improve your guitar playing faster by not ... Views: 701
Becoming a great musician is very difficult when you believe in the myths that most musicians follow. Here are the three main myths to stay away from in order to become a great musician:
Myth #1. You Must Have Natural Talent To Become Great
Wrong: you become great at music through hard ... Views: 692
To 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: 686
Why Some Guitar Teachers Don’t Become Successful
By Tom Hess
Although there are many guitar teachers, only a small percentage of them teach successfully. Many teachers barely earn $35k annually and have few good students if any.
Fact is, everyone has the potential to become a ... Views: 676
How To Improve Your Guitar Playing With Less Practice Time
By Tom Hess
You don't need to practice many hours per day to get better at guitar. These are three ways to improve your playing while practicing less:
Plan Your Practice Schedule Ahead Of Time
Figuring out the things ... Views: 671
Have 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: 663
It is very common for guitar players to have their guitar strap set to where they wear their instrument low while walking around/playing. This makes playing with accuracy much harder than it should be, because it is hard to keep your thumb below the top of the neck. In the process, you are ... Views: 663
It’s a mistake to build a music career without following any kind of formula for success. Musicians who become very successful follow one specific and proven formula to put themselves ahead of the competition.
The proven formula for music career success is as follows:
V*P-R = ... Views: 658
I don’t care if you’ve been teaching guitar for 30 years or if you are just getting started teaching lessons – either way, you have the same awesome potential to achieve success and make insane money teaching guitar. Guitar teachers who earn hundreds of thousands of dollars per ... Views: 657
Tracking progress in your guitar playing makes you a better guitarist by helping you quickly overcome plateaus, practice more effectively and become a more consistent overall player. Many guitarists (mistakenly) do not track their progress. Don’t make this same mistake!
Here are three ... Views: 657
The One Path To Becoming A Successful Guitar Teacher
By Tom Hess
Climbing to the top of Mt. Everest and becoming a highly successful guitar teacher are essentially one in the same in terms of accomplishment.
Don’t believe me? Here are three critical similarities between these ... Views: 656
Finding the best guitar teacher to take lessons from saves you tons of frustration and struggle. Pick the wrong one and your playing suffers (in addition to your wallet).
Tons of guitar players select their teacher based on the wrong criteria. For example: they pick them by the cost of ... Views: 650
3 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: 647
No 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: 637
The 3 Keys To Achieving Massive Music Career Success
by Tom Hess
Accomplishing everything you’ve always wanted in music is much easier when you consistently follow these three keys to success:
1. Having A Strong Mindset & Developing It More Every Day
It’s very ... Views: 636
This 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: 629
Three Mistakes That Make It A Struggle To Play Creative Sweep Picking Arpeggios
By Tom Hess
It’s difficult to play creative sweep picking arpeggios when you fall into the trap of making these 3 mistakes:
Mistake #1. Not Mastering The Fundamental Aspects Of Sweep ... Views: 629
5 Music Business Lies That Hurt Your Music Career
By Tom Hess
Wish 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 ... Views: 621
How To Play Rhythm Guitar In Perfect Time Like The Gears Of A Watch
By Tom Hess
Playing rhythm guitar in perfect time makes you sound like a total pro and gives you skills that make other guitarists jealous.
Good news:
Playing rhythm guitar with great timing is not as hard as you might ... Views: 621
Three Reasons Why Guitarists Give Up Before Reaching Their Musical Goals
By Tom Hess
To become an excellent guitarist, you must persevere when faced with challenges. Guitarists who fail to do this, never reach their goals and usually end up feeling frustrated. Don’t become like ... Views: 620