If you are looking for something to practice, you’ve come to the right place. Practice Makes Better Music is a site dedicated to effective practice, providing you with the resources you need to improve.
Much of the challenge in leveling up your skills is in deciding what to practice. I’m trying to make that a little easier for you by creating lessons that focus on key areas.
Many of the lessons here include practice workouts for you to play along with. You can incorporate one or a few of these practice workouts into a daily warmup routine to help you move towards mastering some of these key topics.
The truth is that better practice habits make you sound better. This leads to you having more fun with music, and going further with your band, music career, or hobby. Whatever it may be for you.
Recent Lessons
The Magic Of Syncopation: Guitar Improv Basics (Part 3)
Today we continue our deep dive into improvisation with Part 3 of this guitar improv basics series. In today’s installment we’ll take a look at how syncopation can enhance your sound and make your solos & parts sound better and more musical.
Syncopated rhythms (emphasizing typically weak beats) add a level of surprise and excitement to any passage, and create a nice counterpoint to more standard rhythms.
Building Vocabulary For Improvisation: Guitar Improv Basics (Part 2)
Today we’re going to look at building vocabulary for improvisation by practicing rhythmic variations. We’re going to look specifically at all kinds of different combinations of 8th notes and Quarter Notes and how we can alter those rhythms to create cool ideas.
Turn Scales Into Solos: Guitar Improv Basics (Part 1)
Learn how to turn technical patterns into musical ideas for soloing, composition and rhythm guitar parts. It all starts with learning the foundational concepts of rhythm, and working on them in a systematic way.
In this video we’ll take a dive into some crucial concepts that will help you move from practicing scales to making real music and meaningful solos. It won’t happen instantly, but the exercises I demonstrate here will set you on the right path.
Barre Chord As Anchor Position For Soloing.. Exercise Pattern Plus Some Double Stop Review
Anchoring scale patterns to chord shapes will help you have a more grounded understanding of where you can play in any given key. I use this approach and it has helped me tremendously.
In this video I share a simple and quick exercise that can help you create a pathway between the simple type 1 barre chord and an extended shape that brings you to a new area of the neck.
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Practice Makes Better Music is a site for Guitarists Who Want to Make Progress
The way you practice makes a difference. You can make faster progress by improving your practice habits. This site is here to help you do just that.
Here are three principles that describe how I approach learning and teaching:
- Increasing the effectiveness of practice makes for quicker progress and development.
- Understanding the patterns of music theory through the guitar allows for deeper exploration and greater progress in your playing.
- Maintaining a constructive mental attitude is key to making progress. Work on a constructive and curious mental attitude. Look at other musicians and let yourself be inspired. Try and discover what elements of their playing you like, and emulate those things.
These principles guide my approach to my own musical journey. Through the resources in this site I want to share what I’ve learned with you.
Free Course Available Now
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You can sign up here to access the free course, Pentatonic Pathways. This course was designed to help you push past your barriers and gain a better understanding of the fretboard. It is intended to help you forge new pathways that you can utilize to create killer solos. I think this course can have a very positive effect on your soloing, and it’s also a good bit of fun.
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