Practice Routine – Week 8
Last weeks practice routine was a little easier to complete than week 6, the reduced workload took some of the pressure off and actually gave me time to have some fun playing music. So this week I will continue with a similar routine, spending about 20 – 30 minutes each day on the Guitar Reading [...]
Practice Routine – Week 7
After failing miserably at completing last weeks practice routine I have decided to pull back on how much I am going to commit to practice for each days exercises. I was finding myself becoming increasingly bored with playing so many scales over and over each night without having any time to have some fun and [...]
Practice Routine – Week 6
Well it looks like Sundays are proving to be a day of rest, well from the guitar anyways. After going to church in the morning, which I didn’t play, and taking my daughter to her first ballet concert there wasn’t much time to do the Practice Routine exercises for the day, so last week, Sunday [...]
Practice Routine – Week 5
Last weeks practice routine was huge for me, I kept finding myself doing heaps of little extras and when I got to the last day of the routine I totally bombed out, I felt like I couldn’t even pick my guitar up. Well, I guess it really comes down to discipline and how much I [...]
How to Play A Major Scale that Covers the Whole Fretboard.
The information I am about to share with you has been a huge revelation for me, and I can only thank one person for it, Barrett Tagliarino. First: The Video. Second: The Post. I learn’t this from using two of Barrett’s book’s in unison the Guitar Fretboard Workbook and the Rhythmic Lead Guitar workbook. I [...]
Practice Routine – Week 4
Here we are again, time to organize what I will be focusing on in my dedicated guitar study and practice time for the next week. But before I get into the details for this weeks practice routine, I just want to let you know that one of last weeks exercises, combined with what I am [...]
Guitar Fretboard Workbook by Barrett Tagliarino
Here is another review that I have already published on Amazon.com, but now that I have owned this book for almost two months I can add to what you will read in my Amazon review, those thoughts will be posted under the review. I have only recently purchased this book, so I can’t give an [...]
Practice Routine – Week 3
Ok, so I am on a roll, I have successfully completed two blocks of planned out practice routines, (links to previous weeks under this post), but in all honesty I had to finish Exercises 2 and 3 of Fridays on the following Saturday due to some guitar maintenance. I replaced my strings with a thicker [...]
Practice Routine – Week 2
I am happy to report that I successfully completed my initial ten day practice routine. One of the benefits I found from having a specific set of exercises to practice each day and having it posted here on RhythmicGuitar.com was that it made me feel accountable and it gave me a focus and a goal [...]
Rhythmic Lead Guitar by Barrett Tagliarino
I originally wrote this review for Amazon.com so the majority of this post is a copy of what you will find there, I thought about writing a new review but why reinvent the wheel right. This is a great book that I am finding to be of great value… Hope you enjoy the review (and [...]
Establishing A Good Practice Routine – Week 1
Last night I decided to write up a practice routine for the next 10 days, these are the tasks that I know I should be doing to establish a good foundation to build on, but are also the ones that I have to force myself to do. So I thought by posting here on Rhythmicguitar.com [...]
The Major Scale Formula
Recently I learned that a major scale is like everything else on the guitar, in that it’s based around a pattern or a formula. My wife originally told me about the Major scale formula a while ago but I never really “Got It” until I started going through Barrett’s Guitar Fretboard Workbook The formula or [...]