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
Create Chord Motion And New Soloing Ideas With Triad Pairs.
In this lesson we’re going to look at another very applicable concept that can help you create more interesting guitar parts, and have a lot of fun while you are at it.
Add Melody To Your Chords With This Simple Approach.
Adding melodic ideas to chordal rhythm guitar parts can make them stand out and sound more musical. There’s an easy way to do this, by learning what melody notes you can play on top of simple triad shapes.
Single String Slide Guitar Exercises. Explore The Modes Of Major, Melodic Minor & More.
Disclaimer: This video is not JUST for slide guitar, though I use a slide throughout. You can play the patterns without a slide and get just as much out of it. Don’t let that scare you away if you don’t play slide.
The guitar has two basic planes, the horizontal and the vertical. The horizontal plane consists of movement up and down the fretboard while the vertical plane consists of movement across the strings.
This basic division is a useful way to categorize the two basic types of movement involved in playing guitar fluidly. If you can navigate the neck on both planes easily, you will set free your ideas and creativity.
Diminished Chords, Arpeggios & Scales. Overview & Exercises.
One of the most interesting patterns in music is the diminished 7th chord and its related arpeggios and scales. This chord is symmetrical, built entirely of minor 3rds, and this provides some unique qualities that can be both very useful and fun to explore.
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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.
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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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