One of the worst habits I’ve developed is sitting down with the guitar and noodling on things I have played a million times before, not really trying to work on anything new or fresh. This is the ‘Unproductive’ way to practice.  I can try to justify it by telling myself ‘Any playing is good…’ or [...]

Alternate picking is hard. Once you get the hang of it, a lot of things become much easier to play. How do you get the hang of it?  Start with turning on a drum machine or metronome, play a basic pattern slowly and accent each UP stroke as you play. Really make the UP pick LOUD and hard. Speed up [...]