Effective Practice Routines

1. The Zombie Practice Approach: A Common Pitfall Practice makes perfect? Well not really; It’s more like “perfect practice makes permanent” Many students and professionals are trapped in the routine of blankly playing through what they’re trying to learn, with no success. The “zombie” approach (as I like to call it), fails at doing anything except making you feel terrible …

Roman Numerals in Music

I’m always shocked when I ask people if they know roman numerals and they reply “what’s that?”.  How do you tell time on those old fancy clocks or read the dates that appear in the footer of movie credits? LOL Seriously though, there’s one major reason why roman numerals are important in music.  More specifically to guitar, there’s actually two. …