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- 3 Helpful Guitar Technique Shortcuts That Greatly Increase Your Speed & Make Playing Guitar Feel Effortless - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2019 from Tom Hess3 Helpful Guitar Technique Shortcuts That Greatly Increase Your Speed & Make Playing Guitar Feel Effortless By Tom Hess Why are shortcuts so awesome? They often get rid of hard and unnecessary work from our lives. This is why we constantly look for shortcuts (and nothing is wrong with ...
Views: 605(1 vote) - How To Become A Better Guitarist By Studying Yngwie Malmsteen - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2013 from Tom HessHow To Become A Better Guitarist By Studying Yngwie Malmsteen by Tom Hess When it comes to the most important guitar players to have ever played, I believe that Yngwie Malmsteen stands out as one of the most highly influential and ‘underrated’ guitarists. In fact, I would even ...
Views: 3222(1 vote) - Why Successful Music Careers Aren’t Built Through Trial-And-Error - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2019 from Tom HessBuilding your music career through trial-and-error causes you to waste time on things that don’t matter and make poor decisions that prevent you from achieving your musical goals. When you mostly guess about what is best for building you music career, you end up believing in ...
Views: 570(1 vote) - How To Make A LOT More Money As A Guitar Teacher - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2013 from Tom HessHow To Make A LOT More Money As A Guitar Teacher by Tom Hess Are you not earning as much money as you would like to teaching guitar? Although most guitar teachers work hard to teach lessons, they do not make very much money from their efforts. As a result, they end up feeling discouraged ...
Views: 2150(2 votes) - Here Is Why You Are Not A Highly Successful Guitar Teacher (…Yet!) - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2013 from Tom HessTom Hess, professional guitarist, musician in the virtuoso metal band Rhapsody Of Fire and international guitar teacher shares his perspective on reaching a major level of success in the guitar teaching profession. Did you ever ask yourself why you are not as successful as your local guitar ...
Views: 1195(1 vote) - Why Common Sense Guitar Teaching Ideas Lead To Failure - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2013 from Tom HessWhether you are new to guitar teaching or have been teaching for a while, you have likely struggled at times to make good money. Fact is, this is a common problem for nearly all guitar teachers and can be overcome with the right knowledge and implementation. However, most teachers lead very ...
Views: 1486(1 vote) - Why Guitar Players With Less Practice Time Don’t Make Much Progress - by Submitted on May 15, 2017 from Tom HessWhy 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: 866 - 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: 602 - 3 Big Myths About Using A Metronome For Guitar Practice - by Submitted on Oct 09, 2017 from Tom Hess3 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: 822 - 3 Common Mistakes That Make Sweep Picking Sound Sloppy - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2019 from Tom HessSweep picking is not as hard as you might think. Getting good at it simply requires avoiding the common mistakes many other guitar players make. Make it easy to sweep pick cleanly and fast by staying away from these mistakes: Mistake #1: Killing picking ...
Views: 626 - 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: 713 - 3 Huge Myths About Achieving Musical Greatness (And Why They Are False) - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2017 from Tom HessBecoming 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: 753 - 3 Myths About Increasing Guitar Speed That Slow Down Your Progress - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2018 from Tom HessIt’s nearly impossible to become a faster guitar player when you believe common guitar speed building myths. Avoiding these myths opens the door for you to make fast progress. Here are 3 big myths about building guitar speed and why they are wrong: Myth #1: “It takes 8 hours ...
Views: 677 - 3 Reasons Why Guitar Players Struggle To Play Fast & Clean - by Submitted on Jan 16, 2018 from Tom HessHaving 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: 799 - 3 Reasons Why You Aren’t Developing Virtuoso Guitar Speed - by Submitted on May 11, 2015 from Tom HessIf you read Part 1 of this article, you already understand the tremendous importance of developing your 2 hand synchronization so you can play guitar faster and cleaner than you ever have. The next step is to learn the 3 main reasons WHY most guitar players never achieve perfect 2 hand ...
Views: 1176 - 3 Reasons Why Your Music Career Fails Even When You Have Musical Talent - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2017 from Tom HessHaving 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: 811 - 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: 852 - 3 Things To Look For While Finding Musicians For Your Band - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2018 from Tom Hess3 Things To Look For While Finding Musicians For Your Band By Tom Hess Finding the right musicians for your band is about more than just musical skills. Look for these 3 things to find the best fit: 1. They Have An Empowering Mindset High-quality musicians have positive and ...
Views: 539 - 3 Tips To Help You Become A Creative Lead Guitarist - by Submitted on May 25, 2020 from Tom Hess3 Tips To Help You Become A Creative Lead Guitarist By Tom Hess Wouldn’t it be nice if you could play amazingly creative and expressive guitar licks and solos at will? No doubt about it! Most guitarists wish they had the ability to do this, but give up before they ever do. Don't ...
Views: 510 - 3 Ways You Can Get More Music Fans And Promote Yourself In Them Music Industry - by Submitted on May 13, 2013 from Tom Hess3 Ways You Can Get More Music Fans And Promote Yourself In Them Music Industry By Tom Hess Are you looking for effective ways to promote your music and develop a following of fans? If so, you are not alone. For most musicians, understanding how to promote their music and gain fans ...
Views: 1176 - 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 ...
Views: 861 - 4 Things You Are Doing To Sabotage Your Music Career (And What To Do About It) - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2014 from Tom HessAnswer this: What is the biggest factor that keeps musicians from beginning and developing a career in music? Is it lack of musical skill? No music business connections? Not getting any opportunities? Being low on money? Not living around a big music scene? ... well, it’s actually none of ...
Views: 1234 - 5 Effective Warm Up Tips That Make You A Better Guitar Player - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2020 from Tom Hess5 Effective Warm Up Tips That Make You A Better Guitar Player By Tom Hess Want to know the most effective warm up exercises to get massive results from your guitar practice time? Chances are, you’ve seen other guitarists using a variety of different ...
Views: 587 - 5 Fundamental Elements Needed To Succeed In Music - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2014 from Tom Hess5 Fundamental Elements Needed To Succeed In Music By Tom Hess No matter what you do, you will NOT make it in the music industry until you attain the 5 key elements possessed by all successful musicians. Building a successful long term music career is a lot of hard work... and it will be ...
Views: 1169 - 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: 990 - 5 Important Steps For Building A Highly Successful Guitar Teaching Business - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2014 from Tom HessIf you think that making a lot of money ($100,000+ per year) by teaching guitar without holding a day job is an unrealistic goal, then you are clearly not living up to your full potential as a guitar teacher. If you want to grow your guitar teaching businesses to a high level, you must take ...
Views: 1028 - 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: 876 - 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: 1194 - 5 Music Business Lies That Hurt Your Music Career - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2017 from Tom Hess5 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: 683 - 5 Reasons Why You Lack Motivation To Practice Guitar And Struggle To Make Progress In Your Guitar Playing - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2013 from Tom HessAre you feeling less motivation to practice guitar lately? Most likely if you have come to this page, you have felt frustrated more than once with slow progress during your guitar practice sessions. Fortunately, you are not the only guitarist who goes through this. Every guitar player ...
Views: 6316 - 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: 870 - 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: 708 - 5 Simple Lydian Guitar Licks That Sound Awesome - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2020 from Tom HessLearn Cool Lydian Guitar Licks That Your Playing Sound Great By Tom Hess What is it about the Lydian mode that creates so much expressive emotion when used in licks and solos? Why do world class players like Vai or Satriani use this mode all the time? And what do you need to do to ...
Views: 605 - 5 Steps You Must Take To Get The Best Guitar Practice Exercises - by Submitted on May 08, 2015 from Tom HessDo 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: 891 - 5 Ways To Create Amazing Rhythm Guitar Riffs - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2012 from Tom HessEach month I receive hundreds of emails from guitar players who want to improve their rhythm guitar skills. For many guitarists, it is a struggle to come up with original rhythm guitar riffs that sound good. In most cases, people who are trying to make rhythm guitar ideas of their own simply try ...
Views: 7518 - 5 Ways To Develop A Highly Successful Career In Music - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2013 from Tom Hess5 Ways To Develop A Highly Successful Career In Music By Tom Hess You will never become incredibly successful in the music industry by only copying other musicians you look up to. Why? Truth is, when musicians reach a high level of success it is not because they just so happened to ...
Views: 1079 - 6 Reasons Why You Struggle To Play Pinch Harmonics On Guitar - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2015 from Tom HessBeing able to play pinch harmonics will make your guitar playing sounds totally badass. With this single technique, you can add true passion, quickly and easily to your guitar playing. However, if done improperly, it can be a very frustrating technique to deal with. Look at this video to see ...
Views: 1186 - >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: 698 - Become A More Creative Lead Guitarist Using These 3 Powerful Tips - by Submitted on May 13, 2019 from Tom HessBecome A More Creative Lead Guitarist Using These 3 Powerful Tips By Tom Hess Wish you knew how to play unbelievably creative and expressive lead guitar solos whenever you picked up your instrument? Of course you do! Most guitarists dream about this, but never make it this far... Good news ...
Views: 552 - Biggest Myth About Guitar Playing (And How It Hurts Your Progress) - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2018 from Tom HessBiggest Myth About Guitar Playing (And How It Hurts Your Progress) By Tom Hess The following myth about guitar playing massively slows down your progress when you believe it: “There is no right or wrong way to do things”. Fact is, there (often) ARE. This doesn't mean ...
Views: 957 - Cool Lead Guitar Licks From The Hirajoshi Scale - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2020 from Tom HessWant your guitar solos and licks to sound amazing to anyone listening? The Hirajoshi scale is an amazing tool for this. What is this scale? It’s a pentatonic scale (meaning: it only has five notes) that originated in Japan. No, this is not exactly the same as other pentatonic scales ...
Views: 593 - Easy Ways To Get Faster On Guitar - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2020 from Tom HessWant to play guitar with blazing-fast speed? It’s probably best to forget most of the advice other guitarists give you. Why? A lot of common guitar speed advice is wrong and actually causes you to play slower! The following are some of the most common things you hear people say ...
Views: 467 - Find Out How To Make Your Guitar Speed More Melodic - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2020 from Tom HessFind Out How To Make Your Guitar Speed More Melodic By Tom Hess Ever listened to a guitarist who had great technical chops, but little ability to make their soloing sound melodic and memorable? …while other guitar players are able to play just as fast or with ...
Views: 552 - Find Out How To Overcome A Guitar Speed Plateau In A Single Day - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2020 from Tom HessRock guitarists can all agree: Getting stuck in a speed plateau is the worst! Not being able to make improvement for years at a time is incredibly frustrating. And the worst thing is… … you start to doubt your ability to make ...
Views: 597 - Five Additional Reasons Why So Many Guitar Teachers Won’t Ever Make Good Money & How YOU Can Be The Guitar Who Does - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2015 from Tom HessFive 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: 841 - 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: 1059 - 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: 764 - 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: 1613 - 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: 1095 - Genius Guitar Practice Hacks That Make Other Guitarists Envy Your Guitar Playing - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2019 from Tom HessGenius Guitar Practice Hacks That Make Other Guitarists Envy Your Guitar Playing By Tom Hess Could you practice guitar three times longer every day? Didn’t think so… and me either. Here’s something you can do ...
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