One of my biggest obstacles over the past 20 years has been guitar picks! Picks felt foreign and unwieldy right from the get-go. I didn't feel as connected to the instrument and it was easier to lose track of my strings. So rather than work hard, develop skill and master the pick, I became steadfastly opposed to their existence. I would lobby about the unnecessariness of picks to anyone who would listen. In hindsight, this was an obvious self-defence mechanism. I was only fooling ...
One of the easiest and most expensive ways to motivate yourself and practice more is (you guessed it!) buy a new guitar. Justifications for the investment: you can't wait to pick it up and hold ityou want to play it non-stopit's more comfortable/easier to play than your current guitarit provides a better tonal range for expressing yourself musicallyyou haven't purchased a new guitar in almost 5 yearsthis is the Summer you turn 40you recently received a ...
Acoustic guitar? Check! Chromatic tuner? Check! Picks of various shapes and sizes? Check! DVD-based guitar learning program? Check! Some backstory: last year I received Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar as a gift. It's a high-end product in this saturated market and emphasizes music theory as much as technique. Plus, L&MG was already an established thing before Gibson funded some reshoots and attached their brand to it. Vote of confidence, right? ...
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