Category: Electric Guitar

December 26, 2009

Welcome to the Guitar Accelerator Blog!

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Over the next few weeks you’ll see the Guitar Accelerator Blog grow exponentially.  Here you will find the ultimate online resource to improve your guitar playing.  You’ll find lots of guitar lessons on this blog and on the home Guitar Accelerator site:

I’m quite new to blogging and I’m giving myself 30 days to learn.

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

  • The best blogging techniques.
  • How to get traffic to your blog.
  • How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

That’s it for now, I’ll be back with some new posts on how to play guitar shortly.

Don J. MacLean is one of the world’s leading authorities on accelerated learning systems for guitar—with students using his methods in more than 40 countries worldwide. Don is the author of over 50 books including How I Got Killer Guitar Chops While I Was Still in High School: Confessions of a High School Shredder, 21 Secrets to Learn any Guitar Song Super-Fast, 7 Secrets to Learn any Guitar Chord Super-Fast, Guitar Essentials: Chord Master Expanded Edition, The World of Scales, and the Absolute Essentials of Music Theory for Guitar.

December 13, 2009

How to Get Great Results From Every Single Guitar Session

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Are you ready to get great results every time you pick up the guitar?

One of the keys to getting the most out of each and every practice session is: focus.

If you are not able to keep your focus during your practice session what kind of results can you really expect from your time?

To keep your focus during your practice session, you must eliminate as many potential interruptions as possible.  When you do this you ensure that your practice time remains your practice time, not time that can be easily stolen from you.

An interruption is anything that diverts your attention from what you have chosen to spend your time on—playing guitar.

An interruption may be someone knocking on your front door, someone calling you on the telephone, or if your computer is on all the time, it could be the little “ping” sound that says you have email.

If you share accommodations with others, let them know that you are not available during your practice session.  Turn off the ringer on your phone, and let your answering system handle any calls.

An interruption steals time from your guitar playing two ways:

1) The actual time of the interruption.  This is the amount of time it takes you to put the guitar down to answer the phone and then return to the guitar.

2) Once you are playing again you have to pick up where you left off. It can take quite some time to get back into the flow of what you were doing, or sometimes you just never quite get back to where you were.

Don’t let this happen.  Take control of your time and eliminate as many interruptions as you can before you start your guitar practice session.

Does this include the TV?

The best-case scenario is to have completed your guitar session before you sit down to watch television.  When you do turn on the TV, by all means, play some guitar if you feel like it.  Just don’t consider it to be a true practice session—look at it as being bonus guitar time.

Remember that anything that takes away your concentration will slow down your progress.  So it’s much better to play guitar for a half an hour and then put your guitar away and watch television for a half an hour, rather than play guitar for an hour while you watch TV.

If you want to watch TV and play guitar watch something that will improve your guitar playing…concert DVDs and instructional guitar DVDs.

Play your electric or accoustic guitar without interuptions for 30 days and see the improvements!

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