Here’s what’s coming next. 

If you’re a beginner, you’re going to struggle to learn enough songs to progress quickly enough. 

And that’s because you haven’t developed your ear to identify many of the sounds the free tabs are telling you to play. 

If you can do that, you are probably still not using the correct picking techniques or fret hand fingerings. 

I worked at Guitar Center for awhile. I know what I’m talking about. 

Lots of my students struggled because they hadn’t learned these basic skills. 

Some even left after a month to figure it all out by themselves. 

This is what I did and man do I regret it. 

I regret it because I could’ve been a lot better than I am now, after 20 years of playing. 

You see, I wanted to become a songwriter and a musician. 

Every month I went and bought guitar magazines and tab books. 

Now I have over 300 tab books alone and countless courses I’ve bought. 

But I couldn’t do anything with the theory knowledge I had amassed. 

That’s because they just showed me a blues or jazz lick….

And didn’t tell me how to use any of that lick in a different context. 

As an ad for another big competitor says….

“The holy grail of guitar is being able to effortlessly create lines up and down the neck with ease and musicality.” 

And after a disastrous attempt at playing blues at a local open mic night….

I knew that this didn’t work.