Hey there, friends! Brand new video for you today, fresh off a family Spring Break trip to sunny Florida. Plenty of great time with parents / siblings / cousins, and even got to see my first in-person rocket launch! We were quite far away, but man — was it cool to see & hear.

LESSON #586
​Learn Guitar Faster by Leaving Your Comfort Zone

The topic today is your comfort zone as a guitarist — what it is, why you should leave it to grow as a guitarist — but why you shouldn't stray too far. Here's a video to explain:

And for those of you looking for a snazzy diagram to hammer these points home, I have a nice 2-pager PDF over on my lesson webpage:

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Similar Lessons I've Made...

I'm not really sure how to categorize all these lessons... practice tips? Learning strategies? How to progress as a guitarist? I can figure all that out later... but in the meantime here's a bunch of similar lessons I've made:

​Practice Routine Tips – what makes for a good practice routine, whether or not you need to work on drills & exercises, how to set realistic goals, suggestions for choosing songs, and much more.

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​How to Memorize Song Lyrics – this is one of the most frequently asked questions I receive! What’s the most efficient way to do it? Here's a handful of tips that work for me.

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​Singing & Strumming at the Same Time – this can be enormously difficult, especially as you’re learning new strumming patterns. I’ll share with you the 4-5 most important tips on this topic, each of which I consider essential to include in your practice toolkit.

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As usual, reply to this email with any questions you have – always happy to answer or point you in the right direction! I'm off to finish unpacking from our trip and enjoy some March Madness bball... go Terps! See you in the next one 🐢 🏀 ✌️

–David