Apply the below to most situations in life where you need to onboard and utilize a skill and you’ll have a framework for success.
1. Technique, Goal: Improve skill set
a) Understand how/why a toolset is applied
b) Practice toolset
c) Display correct use of toolset in training
2. Intention, Goal: Focus mindset
a) Apply the mindset to have the correct intention to use the toolset
b) Possess desire/drive to achieve the goal
3. Attention, Goal: Apply skill set accurately
a) Focus to practice technique is paramount, practice without attentiveness promotes inconsistencies
b) Attention when applying the task to a live environment, deliver what you practice
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Tagged: achieve yor goals · Attention · framework for success · good practice guide · Intention · Life Commandments · Setup for success · Technique
This is something I’d like to think of as my tonal enlightenment! 
My precursor story to getting the tones/sounds I wanted for both home practice and playing in a session with other guitarists and a P.A. In essence a few years back I:
a) Learnt that there was much more to plank spanking than just hitting the strings on the right notes and in the right order, there was this thing called tone!
b) I wanted to explore more sounds/tones that my kit (Hohner lx250 and Vantage VG15) couldn’t give me.
c) I bought a pocket pod for practice with headphones and to explore different sounds.
d) I found some sounds that I liked, bought a new guitar (Gordon Smith – Graduate Ref: "Read More: The Guitar Order – Gordon Smith") and started looking for a new amp to deliver the tone my guitar was capable of.
e) I stumbled across Continue reading →
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Tagged: 5w Tube Amps · Blackstar HT-5 · Find your tone · Gordon Smith · great tone in a practice amp · Great tone small package · Guitar Tone · Marshall · Pocket POD · tonal enlightenment
If I could travel back in time, what would I want to go back and see? Why? Landmarks in time? People in Time? Events in Time?
In addition to all the gigs that I have seen, these are the ones that I wish could travel back in time to be at:
- Bowie at the Hammersmith Theatre, July ’73
- Guns N Roses CGBG, NYC Oct ’87
- Jimi Hendrix London Astoria Club, March 31, 1967
- The Cavern Club, Tuesday, 21 February 1961 Continue reading →
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Tagged: back in time · events in history · great moments in history · greatest gigs · If I could travel back in time · if you could go back in time · time travel
Everyone loves a list or two!! Here’s one of my favorites!
Here’s my personal 10 greatest Hard Rock songs of my generation… which we’ll loosely call the 1990′s and early 2000′s…. lets face it this list could have been a top 50! with the likes of Audioslave, Extreme, Alice Cooper, Stone Temple Pilots, Aerosmith, Janes Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins and many more making their way on the the list….
1. Velvet Revolver – Slither
2. Metallica – Sad but True
3. Guns n’ Roses – You Could Be Mine
4. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
5. Pearl Jam – Black
6. Foo Fighters – Best Of you
7. Lenny Kravitz – American Woman
8. Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
9. Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the Name
10. Green Day – Basket Case
Disagree? Add your list in the comments and lets see what yout got!
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Tagged: 10 Greatest Hard Rock Songs · 1990s · 2000s · Great Songs · My generation · Rock Songs · Top 10 songs
After scouring the internet for many a month for simple(ish) Power Chord Rock songs that will keep you ticking over in learning guitar as well as being fun to play… I’ve pulled together this list of songs that, in my eyes, are not only are great tracks but also should get you going on the guitar with just some basic theory on guitar playing…. (I’m sure you can dig out the Tab on ultimate-guitar.com yourselves). If you’ve got any other songs that you think fall in to this bracket then get them added to the comments section below!
Presidents of the USA – Lump
Papa Roach – Infest
Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away Continue reading →
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Tagged: Easy to play Riffs · Guitar · Music · Power chord Rock Songs · Power chords · Rock Riffs · top 25 Power chord songs · top power chord songs · Ultimate Power Chord Songs
