Max Rich

Knowing your hands and how they function is crucial to designing better practice routines.

In this third installment of the "Understand Your Hands" series, you'll learn about how tendons can be used to create more relaxed and efficient playing, promote snappy and quick attack and increase your speed and agility on the guitar.

Stop searching and fumbling through your solos when you improvise. Instead, know exactly what note you want and more importantly, how to target that note. 

By using the concept of "enclosure" you'll immediately feel more confident and have a more phrase-like approach to running through any scale you choose. This one tip will save your solos from sounding dull and boring!

Practicing with a metronome is important, but how you practice with it is more important.

Using this challenging drill you can learn how to feel the "backbeat" of a song instead of every single beat. Stop rushing, start fixing your timing issues by learning how to play the backbeat.

Have you ever heard piano players or guitarists who seem to use tons of chords while they’re playing over a standard song like a blues? Well what they’re doing can be thought of in terms of passing chords.

By learning how to inject diatonic and diminished chords between chords of a progression you can create amazing new harmonies and find the secret to chord melody playing.

This is a must-have skill for any serious player!

Adding a percussive element to your fingerstyle playing is something that every player can benefit from. Particularly the "slap" that so many great players are known for. By learning this valuable technique, not only will your groove and rhythm improve, but your phrasing and musicality will align with the backbeat of every song you play.

Part 2 of the series Understand Your Hands...this one tackles the best ways to increase fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers. By building these fibers you'll enhance your ability to play cleanly with fast, sharp attack and quick, smooth motions.

If you're a fan of hybrid picking, or you just want an awesome new way to play blues licks, then this lesson is for you!
By learning how to use hybrid picking in an advanced way, you can create some impressive and incredibly musical blues ideas that can't be played any other way!

Are you frustrated with your bar chords? Are you unable to play an entire song because your hand hurts while playing them? If you're getting dead notes and you're unable to cleanly play bar chords for as long as you want, it's not because you're a bad guitarist, it's just because you're using the wrong technique!
Learning how to apply leverage instead of strength is the key...make this one small change in your hand position and bar chords will become effortless and fun to play!