The 3 Keys To Achieving Massive Music Career Success
by Tom Hess
Accomplishing everything you’ve always wanted in music is much easier when you consistently follow these three keys to success:
1. Having A Strong Mindset & Developing It More Every Day
It’s very ... Views: 625
Becoming a more creative guitarist takes practice like anything else on guitar. It also requires avoiding common mistakes that stop you from improving your musical creativity.
Below are common mistakes prevent guitarists from improving their guitar playing creativity. Your creativity ... Views: 441
Tracking progress in your guitar playing makes you a better guitarist by helping you quickly overcome plateaus, practice more effectively and become a more consistent overall player. Many guitarists (mistakenly) do not track their progress. Don’t make this same mistake!
Here are three ... Views: 648
The 4 Keys To Becoming A Massively Successful Guitar Teacher
By Tom Hess
The 4 keys to becoming a successful guitar teacher are learning what to do to build your business, how to teach effectively, how to implement what you know and which mistakes you must avoid.
Why You Must Learn ... Views: 395
What do you think separates great guitarists from average guitarists? Hint: It has nothing to with guitar technique or the amount of time your practice each day. In fact, the answer is so simple you have probably overlooked it:
The Secret To Becoming A Great Guitarist
It is commonly ... Views: 2004
CAUTION: If you are a guitar player currently using the CAGED system…STOP NOW. If you don’t, you will start developing these 7 problems in your guitar playing:
Problem #1: Your Guitar Solos Will Bore People To Death
If you want to play great guitar solos, don’t use the ... Views: 2383
Finding the best guitar teacher to take lessons from saves you tons of frustration and struggle. Pick the wrong one and your playing suffers (in addition to your wallet).
Tons of guitar players select their teacher based on the wrong criteria. For example: they pick them by the cost of ... Views: 639
The Correct Way To Pick For Maximum Guitar Speed – Video Tutorial
By Tom Hess
What’s the best way to pick the strings on guitar for fast speed?
Should you use your elbow?
Is it the wrist?
Perhaps the thumb and pointer finger?
The ... Views: 325
What is the main factor that determines whether your music career will be a success or a failure?
The answer is: The type of mindset you have. How much success you have in music is entirely determined by the decisions you make and the specific actions you take in your life. Both your ... Views: 946
The most important skill to improve for recording better guitar parts is rhythm guitar. A lot of players do not improve this skill and end up wasting tons of time and money in the studio. When you improve your rhythm guitar playing, your recordings begin sounding professional.
To make ... Views: 554
Myth: lacking “natural talent” makes you less creative at improvising than other guitarists who were born with it.
The real difference between creative lead guitarists and non-creative ones is the following:
No, great improvisers do NOT think “faster” than everyone else. They are able to ... Views: 353
Whether you are an advanced guitarist or you are just starting, there is one thing that can help you gain massive results from your guitar practice and enhance your motivation for practicing every day. This powerful technique is: tracking each aspect of your guitar playing progress on a regular ... Views: 1058
The Easiest Way To Reach Any Guitar Playing, Music Career Or Guitar Teaching Goal
By Tom Hess
It’s easy to become a massively successful as a guitarist, guitar teacher or musician when you follow these 3 steps:
Step 1. You Need To Know What “To” Do
It’s ... Views: 592
The four main keys to achieving success as a guitar teacher are understanding what to do to grow your business, how to teach more effectively, how to implement the things you already know and which mistakes you have to avoid.
Why You Need To Learn How To Build Your Teaching Business
You ... Views: 545
Want to become a great guitarist? You’ve come to the right place. After helping thousands of guitarists reach their highest goals, I have discovered five main requirements for true greatness. Before you can ‘truly’ reach greatness as a guitar player, you must attain all five of the following key ... Views: 1153
Ready to play amazing guitar solos that are creative, expressive and emotional? To become more creative, you must practice just how you would practice everything else.
You also need to avoid making big mistakes that stop others from being creative.
The following are frequent mistakes that ... Views: 288
It’s easier to make fast progress to become a great rock guitar player when you avoid the common mistakes others make. For example, most guitarists believe in one or more rock guitar playing myths that prevent them from getting better.
Improve your guitar playing faster by not ... Views: 694
When you first began to practice guitar, you quickly observed that you’d need to practice several techniques and skills for a long period of time (even for years) in order to become a great player. That said, even though you've now invested a huge amount of time into practicing your ... Views: 1145
The One Path To Becoming A Successful Guitar Teacher
By Tom Hess
Climbing to the top of Mt. Everest and becoming a highly successful guitar teacher are essentially one in the same in terms of accomplishment.
Don’t believe me? Here are three critical similarities between these ... Views: 645
It’s a mistake to build a music career without following any kind of formula for success. Musicians who become very successful follow one specific and proven formula to put themselves ahead of the competition.
The proven formula for music career success is as follows:
V*P-R = ... Views: 641
You come across two key types of people when meeting musicians in the music industry:
People who gamble with their careers and people who invest into their careers.
What type of person do you image yourself as?
Are you a gambler or an investor?
Here’s a ... Views: 560
The Three Mistakes You Make That Harm Your Guitar Playing Creativity
By Tom Hess
You become a creative guitar player by practicing the integration of many skills while also not making key mistakes that other guitarists make.
The following are frequent mistakes that hold guitar players back ... Views: 453
The Worst Misconception Guitarists Have About Taking Guitar Lessons With A Teacher
By Tom Hess
What is the most crucial role of any great guitar teacher? You might be thinking that it is: “To teach students a bunch of interesting things to play like songs, techniques or other ... Views: 726
Your chances of becoming a successful professional musician are next to none if you ask the same questions asked by the musicians who contact me on a daily basis. 99% of the time, aspiring pro musicians ask me all the WRONG types of questions that:
1. Are built from ignorant assumptions and ... Views: 814
This Guitar Practice Approach Fixes Your Guitar Playing Problems
by Tom Hess
If you want to make really fast improvement in your guitar playing, you’ll have to learn how to fix problems as
you practice. Merely playing through the same exercise again and again is not effective. ... Views: 620
Three Mistakes That Make It A Struggle To Play Creative Sweep Picking Arpeggios
By Tom Hess
It’s difficult to play creative sweep picking arpeggios when you fall into the trap of making these 3 mistakes:
Mistake #1. Not Mastering The Fundamental Aspects Of Sweep ... Views: 622
Three Mistakes You Must Avoid If You Teach Guitar
By Tom Hess
Becoming a successful guitar teacher requires not making the same mistakes made by mediocre teachers. These kinds of mistakes keep you from making good money and hold your students’ progress back.
Stay away from ... Views: 554
Three Powerful Guitar Exercises That Make Your Solos Sound Better Than Ever
By Tom Hess
How do you start playing better guitar solos very quickly?
It’s hard to believe it now, but I used to think the answer was:
“Build a vocabulary of tons of scale ... Views: 414
Three Reasons Why Guitarists Give Up Before Reaching Their Musical Goals
By Tom Hess
To become an excellent guitarist, you must persevere when faced with challenges. Guitarists who fail to do this, never reach their goals and usually end up feeling frustrated. Don’t become like ... Views: 613
Three Reasons Why You Feel Unmotivated To Practice Guitar
By Tom Hess
There are several key reasons why you lose motivation to practice guitar. Knowing them is the first step to changing your practice approach and getting better results.
These are 3 major causes of a lack of ... Views: 756
Tired of playing sloppy sweep picking arpeggios when you turn up the metronome? Good news: You don't have to practice slowly for a long time to clean them up.
Here are three guitar practice strategies to help you clean up your sweep picking at fast speeds:
Guitar Practice ... Views: 324
Three Ways To Help Your Guitar Students Make Tons Of Progress Fast
By Tom Hess
Use the following guitar teaching advice to help your students become better players faster than ever:
Tip #1. Help Your Students Understand The Benefits Of Practicing Guitar Slowly
Practicing guitar ... Views: 839
Top 5 'Conventional' Music Career Approaches That Lead To Failure
By Tom Hess
Are you ready to start building a successful career in music, but uncertain about ‘what’ you need to do? Truth is, before you can become a successful professional musician you need to cleanse your ... Views: 2093
You’re not going to quickly improve your guitar playing unless you understand precisely what prevents you from reaching your musical goals. In fact, you might go years without making significant progress until you figure this out. To propel your guitar playing progress forward like a ... Views: 8247
Wish you had tons of guitar students? Here is the first thing you should do (if you haven’t done it already): STOP copying what other guitar teachers in your area are doing. A lot of guitar teachers set themselves up for failure whenever they try to attract new students. They seek answers ... Views: 756
Transform Boring Arpeggios Into Highly Creative Sweep Picking Guitar Licks
By Tom Hess
Do you want to make your sweep picking licks more creative? Do the following: focus more on creatively applying the arpeggio patterns you already know into music rather than seeking out as many new ... Views: 1828
Most guitarists have never figured out the reason why they are unable to build tons of speed on guitar. This is usually because they take one of the following approaches:
1.They consistently practice at very slow speeds while believing that it will help them become faster players. Usually ... Views: 902
Are you no longer having fun during your guitar practice time? If so, you will get much slower results (if any) for these reasons:
1. When you feel bored or tired, you are going to practice less. When you spend less time practicing guitar, you make much slower progress.
2. In some cases, ... Views: 856
Complete this instant music industry quiz:
True or false: You compete with countless musicians in order to get the music industry opportunities you desire.
True or false: One of the greatest obstacles in the music industry is beating the massive competition in your way so you can make ... Views: 694
Following most guitar practice conventional wisdom often leads to slower progress, formation of bad playing habits and lots of unnecessary frustration.
Yes, a lot of common advice regarding playing guitar faster is wrong and actually causes you to play slower and less clean!
The following ... Views: 373
Why Conventional Guitar Practice Advice Causes Sloppy Playing At Faster Speeds
You play guitar faster and cleaner by not listening to conventional speed building advice. A lot of popular guitar practice advice is wrong and actually slows down your progress.
Here are 3 pieces of ... Views: 400
Want to play guitar faster and cleaner than ever? Stop listening to conventional speed building wisdom.
Tons of popular guitar speed advice is wrong and actually turns you into a slower player!
Here are 3 pieces of conventional guitar playing wisdom to stay away from in order to become a ... Views: 441
It is very common for guitar players to have their guitar strap set to where they wear their instrument low while walking around/playing. This makes playing with accuracy much harder than it should be, because it is hard to keep your thumb below the top of the neck. In the process, you are ... Views: 657
The majority of guitar teachers use general guitar learning books or methods to try to teach their students. Unless you only teach beginning guitar students, you are going to face these major problems in your guitar teaching:
1. Your students won’t make a lot of progress on guitar and ... Views: 1154
Sweep picking cleanly at fast speeds requires mastering the rolling technique in your fretting fingers. This is the key to playing notes on strings right after each other, on the same fret, with the exact same finger.
Being able to play with excellent rolling technique requires:
*Knowing ... Views: 1276
Practicing as many guitar exercises as possible does NOT help you become a better guitarist faster. Guitarists who use this approach practice less efficiently, make slower progress and become frustrated due to a lack of results.
Here’s 3 reasons why having too many guitar exercises ... Views: 1030
Tom Hess, musician success coach and guitar player in the 1.5+ million record selling metal band Rhapsody Of Fire discusses success in the music industry.
Why do some musicians reach success in their music careers while others never seem to ‘make it’ and end up working in jobs outside of the ... Views: 1212
Why Most Guitar Teachers Are Unable To Help Their Students Make Progress
By Tom Hess
When you don’t help your guitar students make tons of progress, they don’t become better players, stop taking lessons and your reputation as a teacher suffers. There are 3 mistakes most ... Views: 497
You get a lot of guitar students by not making the same excuses as most guitar teachers. When you believe there is an excuse (outside your control) for your failure to get students, you never take the action needed to get them. Understanding why these excuses are wrong makes it easier for you to ... Views: 806
Statistics have shown that the majority of guitar teachers do not succeed with their teaching businesses. Most guitar teachers have just a few really great students (if they actually have any) - and for most of them, a $60,000 per year income seems like a distant dream. Most of these teachers ... Views: 808