Something which I found difficult, but useful to do is to not slow down the tracks, and just use a metronome. This forces you to read the rhythm and k...

If you're in Cali (Bay Area?), I know Gryphon Stringed Instruments has a rent-a-guitar and apply that towards purchase plan. Perhaps your local store ...

I jsut thought of another one...Spend less time worrying about what stuff I should buy and actually learn to play my instruments :) This coming from a...

Actually, this 10,000 hours is an interesting number. There's a cool paper where they studied a lot of different people: chess players, athletes, and ...

I have a copy of the Skeptical Guitarist Vol.1 and Vol. 2, and it's pretty nice:

Something people may not realize is that Volume 1 is now sold with an instructional DVD, which is pretty good:It does cost as much as Volume 1-2-3, bu...

I made this really long list... but for the sake of this post it comes down to:1) Finish the books I'm working on (Blues You Can Use, Modern Method fo...

I'm not actually worried about the official copyright with the office (I'd do that under my real name), I just meant on the internet :) So it seems li...

Leaving on a Jet Plane, John Denver, from this super useful series of lesson on the web:

I'm also usually at my computer, so I can always just use the built-in microphone on my laptop and audacity, to record a sequence of chord progression...

MD Players are very nice and high quality, but I've found that actual digital voice recorders are expensive and MD players are a little big to carry a...

I haven't... I didn't make any formal goals, but I was hoping to be done with one of the guitar books I was working through by now. Reading this makes...

This reminds me of the post from about.com on music, which I like to read every once in a while: I edited it a tiny bit for G-audiencesWhat Do You Wan...

So for this it looks like the internal wiring will be long enough. It'd be nice if it was just long enough to get outside the soundhole, because attac...