This was around the time my band was starting to take off, I was finally getting comfortable with my skills on guitar, and I was even starting to learn how to record and produce my own music at home. Later, I worked a boring, tedious, dead-end job in retail. The appeal there, whatever your equivalent of TV or videogames is in this story, is where music needs to be in your mind. All I could think about was the day being over, being free to watch TV and play videogames and basically just do whatever I wanted. I remember when I was in school as a kid, I could focus decently for the first few hours of the day, but after lunch, when I knew there were only a couple hours left before it was time to go home, all concentration went out the window. Essentially, what you need to do is to make music casual and fun, almost like a game, so that you start to look forward to it. This is a gradual process, and can take several months to accomplish. The goal is to re-wire your brain’s reward circuit, so that you stop thinking of music as boring extracurricular homework and start thinking of it as the most fun thing you could be doing with your time.
My first piece of advice is firmly rooted in psychology. While some of this will be wordy and not directly related to music, if you can really absorb this information and apply it to your practice, you will be able to go above and beyond the vast majority of musicians. In any case, the following list is my personal set of recommendations to take yourself and your playing to the next level. “right brain” function, though in recent years, that psychology has come under some amount of skepticism. This would classically be referred to as “left brain” vs. For this type of person, music must be regarded with both creative passion and business sense. A musician who is succeeding in their goals and endeavors, who is both technically-skilled and able to generate at least some amount of money from their craft, has actually trained his or her brain to work differently. Professional musicians actually seem to think about the world and their lives in a different way from amateur musicians. These are habits and mental processes that have been second-nature to me for years, and meeting so many new students who don’t share these habits, has led me to develop a system by which they can be easily taught and explained. My students have traditionally been at a more intermediate to advanced level, and developing a different curriculum for beginners has led me to some realizations regarding what separates amateurs from professionals. Recently, I’ve noticed an influx of beginner guitarists interested in becoming my students. The Practice Habits of a Professional Guitarist
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