Donna Lee is a classic jazz tune, nice chord changes, challenging melody, and tons of classic recordings to pore over. So last week my buddy…

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You know that feeling when you spend A-A-A-A-a-a-a-a-a-g-e-s working on something, only to get to the gig with all those good intentions of using your…

Hi, wanted to tell you about one of our courses at ElectricCampfire.com It’s called ‘Chord Tone Improvisation’, and it’s a video based course about musical…

TODAY I’m going to improve your soloing. Plain and simple. In the next 10 minutes. You’re going to find out if you can play a good idea. You’ll…

Here’s a playlist for an old practice tape I just found. A drummer friend of mine used to play along with records all day. That…

In this lesson you’ll learn four types of feedback: no feedback, negative, positive & specific. And I’m going to make the case for turning everything into…

Here’s how you can simply frame and focus your practice routine so you don’t waste your time doing pointless things. I’ll also show you how…

Here are my personal recommendations for instruction books that I’ve found very useful. These are the ones (out of the hundreds I’ve used) that I…

At the universities I teach at, I get to see the development of a student over the course of three or four years. Here’s a…

I’m thinking about the environment in which I work: it should be about utility. If I don’t use whatever’s in there, then I don’t need…

There’s a way of motivating yourself to go running: Instead of willing yourself to go, make it your goal to put on your running shoes…

The immersion I like is the kind that seems pointless. You don’t know if what you’re doing will result in anything. Probably not, but you…

Stop whinging. Put some glue on your chair. Sit down. And get to work. Every day. For years.

Should I do A or B? It doesn’t matter. Do either. Then you’ll know which you should’ve done.

Have an element of randomness to a part of your practice. This can take the form of just saying yes to any gig that comes…

I used to live with a sax player who always played a descending Eb major scale whenever he got the instrument out. A thing like…

Ever listen to music through some kind of filter? You could set filters to only let certain frequencies through, or to remove certain frequencies., So,…

Here’s an exercise for becoming fluent with arpeggios. Use Practice Page #1 which will give you a way to practise in all keys. Then choose an arpeggio…

Don’t practice what you already know. Do what you don’t know. What do you do when you first pick up the instrument? Play an E?…

Here’s an exercise that will help you know the fretboard better. Unless you know what the notes are on the fretboard you cannot apply theoretical knowledge,…

No Repeat Voicings – Another Mike Walker thing that he used to force me to do. He was quite a strict teacher. He used to…

Oops… Forgot to post this one in the right place. It’s a follow on idea from the first Practice Page post. You can see that…

What to do if you only have a limited amount of time to practise? Learn Pieces. Every piece of music you learn is a complete…

Practice Page is a name I give to certain little pages that I’ve developed to focus my practising. Here’s how you can use it: You…

Here’s a thing you can use to practise in all keys. Take all 12 keys and arrange them into four groups. The groups are organised…

This is an expansion on the Basic Practice Method which, to remind you, was: Do Gigs Learn Pieces It all starts with Doing Music The music…

This is my practice routine in a nutshell. 1. Do Gigs This means ANY performance/playing. A gig, a session, a recording, a broadcast, a snippet…