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March 17, 2022 In Misc. By Dan Thorpe

What We Can Learn from the Trashiest of T.V.

I rarely watch trashy T.V…

…but the other night, me and my girlfriend Sally sat down to watch what was probably the best trashy T.V. I’ve seen in years.

March 8, 2022 In Misc. By Dan Thorpe

A Painful First Two Years of Guitar Playing

I got this email last week…

February 19, 2022 In Misc. By Dan Thorpe

The Focus and Desire to Start Again at the Beginning

The focus and desire to start again at the beginning

Here is a snippet of a comment I thought I’d share, especially for those of you who have the Fingerstyle 101 BOOK or EBOOK.

It was taken from the VIDEO version of the Fingerstyle 101 course and was a comment left last night…

February 19, 2022 In Misc. By Dan Thorpe

When Holding a Guitar Chord Injured a Virtuoso

Here’s an interesting story.

The other day I was getting out all my old guitar books and magazines and organising them.

I came across the story of Steve Vai and his bizarre guitar playing injury.

January 27, 2022 In Misc. By Dan Thorpe

How to Run Up and Down the Fretboard

Ah, scales.

I don’t talk about them that much in these posts.

Yet they are the building blocks and the backbone of most music…

Practising scales over and over can bore people to tears, especially if you don’t make real music with them.

January 13, 2022 In Misc. By Dan Thorpe

3 Ways to Improve Brain Health Using Your Trusty Axe

As we all know, playing guitar is great for our brain health.

I’ve always joked that no one needs those brain training apps that were popular a few years ago… Instead, you just need to learn a few riffs on guitar! (The guitar is brain training made fun after all!)

The way I see it, there are 3 levels of “brain training” on the guitar and I explain them below from least to most effective (in terms of the amount of stimulation and impact research shows they have on the ol’ grey matter).