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Stay in the Process: How to Get Unstuck Creatively

Feeling creatively stuck? Changing your process can help you generate ideas, build skills, and keep moving in songwriting and music.

Fingerstyle Guitar Techniques: Better Control, Tone & Rhythm

Learn fingerstyle guitar techniques for better control, tone, rhythm, and finger independence, with exercises, styles, and video lessons.

How to Play Guitar in a Band Without Getting in the Way

Learn how to play guitar in a band by listening, leaving space, choosing better chord voicings, and building parts that serve the song.

How to Practice Music With More Focus and Less Tension

Learn how to practice music with clear goals, shorter sessions, better focus, and less tension on guitar, voice, piano, or any instrument.

CAGED Beyond Basics: 7ths, Sus Chords & Extensions

Learn how to use CAGED for 7ths, sus chords, diminished, augmented, 9ths, and 11ths so you can build better chords across the guitar neck.

Why You Can Play Hard Songs But Still Can’t Improvise

Why can you play hard guitar songs but not improvise? Learn how to turn A minor pentatonic patterns into musical phrases and solos.

How to Reverse-Engineer a Band’s Guitar Style: A 5-Song Study Method

Learn how to reverse-engineer any band or guitar player’s style with a 5-song study method using Tom Petty and Mike Campbell as examples.

How to Actually Use Modes on Guitar

Modes aren’t musical when treated solely as scale shapes. The key is to learn how to use modes with tonal centers, chord tones, and phrasing.

Tube Amp vs Digital Modeler: Tone, Feel, Latency, and Live Use

Tube amps and digital modelers can both sound great. Learn why guitar rigs feel different through amps, modelers, plugins, headphones, cabinets, and live monitoring.

Drop 2 & Drop 3 Chords for Guitar: A Complete Guide

Drop 2 and Drop 3 chords are essential guitar voicings for jazz, chord melody, comping, and fretboard fluency. This complete guide explains how they work, how to practice them, and how to use them musically.