Tagged: practice
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Practice
Why guitarists can't read music (and the ten-minute fix)
The guitar hands you three ways to dodge standard notation. Here is why that happens, and a ten-minute daily routine that actually starts to fix it.
Practice
CAGED, but for arpeggios: five shapes, whole fretboard
The CAGED system maps arpeggios, not just chords — five shapes that tile the whole neck for one chord, how they connect, and a practice order that makes them stick.
Practice
Practice you can move through
Arpèges v7 adds two gestures — slide the fret window up the neck, swipe back to the card you just nailed. Both come from one idea: practice should never be a one-way street.
Practice
Scales meet arpeggios: one drill for the whole fretboard
Arpèges now deals scales and modes off the same deck as the arpeggios. Why practising the two together — not in separate sessions — is the thing that actually moves your playing.
Theory
Voice Leading in Four Parts
How to move four independent voices smoothly between chords — common-tone retention, contrary motion, and the small steps that keep a progression singable.
Practice
Building a Daily Practice Loop
A repeatable daily practice structure — a short warm-up, one focused target, and a quick review — designed to compound small gains instead of chasing marathon sessions.