One of my favourite guilty pleasure songs is Toto’s, “Hold the Line”. The song is wonderful, and the playing of guitarist extraordinaire, Steve Lukather, is brill. Especially on the live recordings I’ve heard of this.
Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including Ed Byrne and Iggy Pop, avoiding pain, and an opportunity to choose the next song for my course. Here we go…
Just want to give you a heads up… In a few hours, enrolment for the Dan Thorpe Acoustic Academy will end.
One thing I’ve really disliked about YouTube over the years is all those videos on “hacks” and the like.
Here is a 10-second tip for you to enjoy… It’s all about…
Years ago, I sent out an interesting survey to everyone on my email list which revealed how much people need a motivating plan. Yesterday I was going through the results briefly as there are a lot of insights in the answers that students gave. Lots of things were mentioned, but two of the biggest I […]
I may be chased down, hunted, and burned at the stake by some guitar tutors stuck in their ways for saying this but sometimes… Chords are overrated. …Especially if you play melodic music such as fingerpicking.
One big mistake you got to be careful of when learning guitar is not practising things in huge chunks. I was talking about this with a student the other day. He was trying to perfect pretty much the whole song in one go, but there were about 7 or 8 parts in the song […]
Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including remembering Taylor Hawkins, 3D music, and more. Here we go…
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee