One of the easiest and most expensive ways to motivate yourself and practice more is (you guessed it!) buy a new guitar. Justifications for the investment: you can't wait to pick it up and hold ityou want to play it non-stopit's more comfortable/easier to play than your current guitarit provides a better tonal range for expressing yourself musicallyyou haven't purchased a new guitar in almost 5 yearsthis is the Summer you turn 40you recently received a ...
I am reading Gary Marcus' Guitar Zero. In fact, I finished it tonight. It's an excellent read for a middle-aged analyst and guitar enthusiast like myself. The book offers enormous insight into how we learn, how our brains re-wire themselves, how music affects us, music history, theories, studies, observations, anecdotes, opinions... I read a digital copy on my iPhone. This was also a new experience for me and, surprisingly, not unpleasant. I was a hardcover guy, now ...
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