How Spaced Practice Helps us Improve 🚀
When I started learning guitar, my intuitive approach to practice was to cram in as much as possible in whatever time I had available....
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Un Sueño en la Floresta / Fuente de Lágrimas
Un Sueño en la Floresta (Agustín Barrios Mangoré) & Fuente de Lágrima (Antonio Rey).
How Repetitions, Errors & Frustration Help us Improve 🚀
Repetitions, Errors, & Frustration Two of the most common assumptions I hear about practice are 1) that effective practice means lots of...
Profundidades / Por Una Cabeza
Profundidades (taranta). Composed by Rafael Riqueni (1962, Spain) and performed by Grisha Goryachev. The taranta style of flamenco...
Alertness & Focus for Faster Learning 🚀
There’s plenty of research out there (e.g., Aspen Brain Institute, 2022, Marzo et al., 2009, Eschenki & Sara, 2008, Kuo et al., 2007)...
Sonata K 213 & A Mi Compadre Morao
Sonata K 213. Composed by Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757, Italy) and performed by Valeria Galimova. Domenico Scarlatti was the...
Stop Making Mistakes in Performance: Part 3 🚀
In my last newsletter on How to Stop Making Mistakes in Performance (Part 2), I covered performance preparation using Performance...
El Cobre & Se Ela Perguntar
El Cobre (sevillana). Composed by Paco de Lucía (1947-2014, Spain) and performed by Juan de Dios Tamayo. If you remember from the...
Stop Making Mistakes in Performance: Part 2 🚀
Strategic & Deliberate Practice are key components of performance preparation but if we only spend all of our time in either or both of...
Recuerdos & Gitanos Andaluces
Recuerdos. Composed by Eduardo Díaz (Mexico) & Performed by Vladimir Druzhinin. Eduardo Díaz is an active composer and classical...
Stop Making Mistakes in Performance: Part 1 🚀
Most of us have had the experience of playing to “near perfection” in the practice room and then making plenty of mistakes while playing...
Puerta del Principe & Serenata Española
Puerta del Principe (cantiñas). Composed and performed by Manolo Sanlucar (1943-2022, Spain). The style of cantiñas belongs to a family...
Julia Florida & Callejón de Muro
Julia Florida. Composed by Agustín Barrios (1885-1944, Paraguay) and performed by Alexandra Whittingham. Julia Florida is another...
Vivencias Imaginadas & Habanera (Carmen)
Vivencias Imaginadas (zapateado). Composed and performed by Vicente Amigo. The zapateado — a dance with percussive footwork — has its...
El Nuevo Día & Maria Luisa
El Nuevo Día (colombianas). Composed by Paco Peña and performed by Daniel Martinez. The colombianas is a 4/4 style in the flamenco genre...
Por Ti Mi Corazón & Tientos de la Bahía
Por Tí Mi Corazón. Composed by Manuel Ponce (1882-1948, Mexico) and performed by Edson Lopes. Ponce was a Mexican composer who wrote...
Farruca de Lucía & Evocación
Farruca de Lucia (farruca). Performed and composed by Paco de Lucía (1947-2014, Spain). The farruca is another style in the flamenco...
How to Play Trémolo
The Complete Tremolo Tutorial for Beginners. In this video I show 3 different trémolos: 1) the classical trémolo (4-note), 2) the...
Prelude in C Minor & Al Niño Miguel
Prelude in C Minor. Composed by Agustin Barrios (1885–1944, Paraguay) and performed by Valeria Galimova. This beautiful work by Barrios...
Why Do I Keep Making Random Mistakes?!?
Why do I Keep Making Random Mistakes? Have you ever sat down to practice something you’ve played dozens of times before only to hear...
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