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Try this: Improvise, but have it so that at no point are you not fretting a note. It could be any finger, but there must…

Use three guitars: The guitar you normally play. A guitar with very heavy strings, high action. A guitar with very light strings, low action. Switch…

If I want to work on a certain aspect of my playing, I try to learn an actual piece of music that’ll help. E.g., if…

All played with strict alternate picking. Start on a downstroke. (the last one will start on an up though) Then reverse the picking; i.e., start…

Forgot to add words to yesterday’s post, but that’s what happens when you diet on biscuits and fake whelks. Anyhow, we all know that it’s…

I used to do T’ai chi, and there are many wonderful looking and feeling movements within the short form; it’s a beautifully flowing and balletic…

Know what you’re doing. Have it under control. If you want to do it this way, you can. If you want to do it that…

This is a nice way to work on fretting-hand muting. You crank the amp to Tufnellian proportions and play an Ab major scale. Only difference…

This is a little exercise I developed that breaks away from regular picking patterns. It presents a good problem to practise.

Phrasing on the guitar is somewhat complicated by the fact that how something gets phrased is a combination of where you play it on the…

The idea here is to work on co-ordination between left and right hands, and combining picking and slurring. The exercise uses all the left-hand fingers,…

3 Minute warning, maybe :) Anyhow, at 140 BPM the whole thing takes 2 minutes, so let’s aim for that. A two minute warm-up sounds…

I have a few things related to technique that I’ll be posting soon, but just for now, here’s something you might try practising that can…

Harmonic Cycles using the D Harmonic Minor scale. Try voice-leading, but today, why don’t you try to arpeggiate all these chords somehow? Maybe sweep-pick them…