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Hark! The year of jazz is nigh

I haven't hit a musical rut for a few months now

Getting past the "good enough" mentality

What the One-Laptop-Per-Child movement and many online guitar courses have in common

R.I.P all the guitar knowledge I've let die over the years

A New Approach to Guitar Practice

How to break down your guitar projects into tasks to maximize motivation

The exact moment I transitioned from intermediate to advanced

I’ve watched tons of guitar instructional videos, yet still don’t know anything

Find clarity by becoming a project-based guitarist

[Newsletter] Thriving guitarists balance these 7 areas of guitar playing

The Ultimate Guide to Teaching Yourself Guitar

[Newsletter] Learn guitar the way toddlers learn language (the science behind learning-by-immersion).

[Newsletter] 10 principles to get over your plateau and make your practice time more worthwhile

[Newsletter] Where are you in the wavy learning curve?

[Newsletter] Which type of guitar learner are you: a hunter or a gatherer?

5 practice principles self-taught guitarists can learn from a famous violin teacher

[Newsletter] How self-taught guitarists can pick up momentum and get out of their rut: The As and When Practice Framework

[Newsletter] Scales are useful to make music. Music is useful to learn scales. Here's why.

[Newsletter] Feel like you need to drill the boring stuff before getting to the good stuff? You don't.

[Newsletter] 4 things self-taught guitarists should practice to make everything else easier

[Newsletter] Making your guitar playing a daily habit is the best thing you can do to improve. Here’s how.

[Newsletter] If you don't know the point of what you're learning on guitar, then why are you doing it?

[Newsletter] The hardest part of learning guitar online is doing it alone

[Newsletter] Become a stronger player by knowing the history of your favourite music

[Newsletter] Massed practice: the illusion of getting better at guitar

[Newsletter] 4 procrastination triggers that bog down people trying to teach themselves guitar online

4 myths holding back self-taught guitarists from making progress.

Essays

The Curse of Knowledge: why you’re not getting along with your guitar teacher.

A lazy guitarist’s advice for when you just don’t feel like picking up your guitar.

Many self-taught guitarists get stuck on the ends of the Practice-Play spectrum.

[Newsletter] Learning music theory, the basics of Blues, hearing the same notes in different keys

Feel like it’s taking forever to learn guitar? A step-by-step guide with examples to learn guitar faster.

This bad habit causes self-taught guitar players to hit a plateau faster than anything else.