Fret Blog

The key to harnessing your excitement is to make the stage your natural habitat through experience on stage and great preparation.

As you practice guitar or work through a program like Fretboard Biology, it’s important to measure your progress. Improvement rarely comes in big spurts. It comes over time, after a lot of practice.

Always remember to write music chord charts from the perspective of the musician who will have to read it in the heat of battle.

When you see the signs that burnout is approaching, use some of these tools to avoid it.

Making the changes means that some of the notes you use in a guitar solo belong to the chord played at that instant in the song.

As a guitarist, it’s important for you to develop your vocabulary so you have a way to express yourself and bare your soul.

When you record yourself playing guitar, you can listen to see if your time is good, if you sound relaxed, if your execution is clean, and so on. Essentially, you can hear what other people hear when they listen to you play guitar.

If you are an inexperienced guitar player, and aspire to play in duos, trios or full bands, it’s important that you get together to play with other musicians

Singing with your solos helps you be a more motif-oriented soloist and likely will give you the space to be a more melodic soloist.

Nothing is more telling about how developed a musician is than how good their time is.

Bands are a social environment and all the rules that apply to normal human interaction apply.

If you want to grow to where you’re performing in a variety of genres and environments, learning to read a chord chart is probably worthwhile.