Guides · Routines · Theory
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Not another beginner course. This is the stuff nobody tells you in the first year: how to practise so it sticks, what theory is actually for, and why you have not improved since 2019.
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The 30-minute routine
Five minutes of hands, ten of the thing you cannot do yet, ten of music, five of playing badly on purpose. Why that order matters more than the total time.
MethodWhy slow practice wins
Speed is a by-product of accuracy. The four-bpm rule, the three-perfect-repetitions test, and what actually happens in your hands when you practise a mistake.
FretboardLearning the fretboard
Octave shapes, string-by-string drilling, and the five-minute-a-day method that gets you naming any note anywhere within a month.
HonestyBreaking a plateau
You are not out of talent. You are practising what you can already do. How to find the edge of your ability and stay uncomfortably close to it.
Theory, minus the fog
Intervals are the whole game
Every chord, scale and lick is a pattern of distances. Learn the twelve distances and the rest of theory stops being memorisation.
SongwritingKeys and progressions
Why I–V–vi–IV is on half the radio, what a key really is, and how to work out the chords to a song by ear in about ninety seconds.
SystemCAGED, without the cult
A useful map of the neck that gets oversold as a religion. What it genuinely gives you and where it starts holding you back.
DemystifiedModes, finally
Modes are not scales you play over a chord progression. They are what happens when a different note becomes home. One example makes it obvious.
Gear & setup
Setting up your own guitar
Truss rod, action, intonation and nut slots, in the right order, with the measurements that matter and the ones that don't.
GearStrings: what actually changes
Gauge, core shape, alloy and coating — which of these you can hear, which you can feel, and which is marketing.