by Paul Roth | Mar 29, 2018 | Inspiration, Practice, Teaching, Technique
In this week’s post I’m collating my top 5 phrases I say to students generally anywhere from beginner to early intermediate. Why? Well in lessons I’m frequently saying these as they are vital to fundamental technique, and so for practice at home it’s great to be...
by Paul Roth | Mar 13, 2018 | Inspiration, Musicianship, Teaching
This week’s blog is inspired by a lesson I had with a student this week. I’ve long believed as a teacher – especially in this day in age – with such a vast amount of resources online, that a large part of my role as a teacher is to teach students how to...
by Paul Roth | Jan 19, 2018 | Inspiration
Alright, first post of the year! Considering this time of the year, I wanted to make this first post a bit more of an inspirational post, rather than so much a meaty post about musical concepts. I was inspired in one of my first lessons of the year by a conversation...
by Ric Newsom | Nov 27, 2017 | Inspiration
In part 1 last week I wrote about how a new focus can freshen up your playing and practicing when you feel like you’re bored and/or plateauing. This week I’m back for part 2 with some of my favorite exercises to break out of a rut. Here we go! 1) Go to a...
by Ric Newsom | Nov 15, 2017 | Inspiration
For this week’s blog we have a special guest writer, the newest teacher on board at TMTG and also the awesome lead guitarist from Esimorp I hope you enjoy the great insight that Ric has into breaking a guitar rut, I sure did! Before joining a real...
by Paul Roth | Dec 15, 2016 | Inspiration
Whether you admit it or not, everyone has New Year’s resolutions of some description. For many, learning guitar is one of those resolutions. So to help you see it through, I’ve decided to share with you 5 key tips that are easy to implement and...
