GUITARHABITS

Free Quality Guitar Lessons

  • Home
  • Best Posts
  • Categories
  • All Lessons
  • Donate♥
  • About
  • YT
  • IG
  • FB

Exclusive Premiere: New Song by Klaus Crow

By Klaus Crow 3 Comments

Hi Folks, today I’m sharing a new song that I wrote. To be fair, this is one of the 10 songs I wrote a while ago, but due to life I haven’t been able to record them yet. As John Lennon would say “Life happens while you’re busy making other plans”, and so it is.

Since I don’t want to leave the songs on the shelf (I’m certainly not planning to) and start putting the songs out in the world, I thought I begin to share one with you. I just took my guitar right out the case and started playing and singing. Afterwards I added the lyrics and some clips to convey the emotion and feeling of the song. I hope you like it.

Enjoy!

New Song: “Stepping Away” ~ Klaus Crow

📨 Hi there, Join Guitarhabits and receive Free Quality Guitar Video Lessons, Top Content, Tips, Tricks, Resources & (bi)Weekly Guitarhabits’ Backpack Email full of good stuff. 🎸🎁  
SIGN UP HERE: https://www.guitarhabits.com/sign-up-guitarhabits/  
Support my work here: https://www.guitarhabits.com/donate/

How to Create Good Guitar Habits That Work

By Klaus Crow 5 Comments

How to Create Good Guitar Habits that Work

You want to read this post.

So, what new guitar challenge(s) are you going to commit to in the year ahead? What fresh guitar routine are you going to follow and what are you going to do to make it really work and last?

Creating good solid guitar habits is a challenge in itself. First of all, you have to ask yourself the important questions and providing them with hard and truthful answers in writing:

  • Do you really want to become a better guitar player or is it just a nice idea?
  • WHY do you want to become a better guitar player? Two good reasons please!
  • Do you want to put in the work to become a better guitar player? or just really not?

Once you’ve answered these questions you want to ask the follow up questions:

  • What is it that you want to get good or better at?
  • What gives you the most satisfaction and reward?
  • What could you really do to become a better guitar player?
  • How could you create a habit that works and sticks?

With the last question I can help you with. Read on!

Continue Reading

Guitar Music & Health Goals for 2022

By Klaus Crow 19 Comments

Happy new year to all of you! May 2022 bring you good health and utmost joy. While some things are beyond our control there is a lot we can do ourselves to improve our health and overall happiness.

As a practicing musician (and a human being) it’s important to maintain a good physical and mental state, so I like to do whatever I can to work on my health and strengthen my immune system and of course this comes in phases. Life works like that. It’s high tide and low tide, its Ying and Yang. It’s all part of the game, as long as you get back up again and go for it.

For music and guitar goals it’s the same thing. I set out goals where some survive and others don’t and that’s okay. It’s the intention that matters.

For me goal setting makes me happy, that’s why I do it. It’s not the result I’m after to be fulfilled, it’s the writing down of things that I want to do, the process, the workflow, the effort and everything that occurs from that.

I write down my goals. Writing down goals makes the probability of executing them much higher. Writing them down in detail on a weekly or even daily basis will make that probability huge.

My Previous Guitar Goals

One of my guitar and music goals for 2021 was “improving my guitar skills”. Now I must admit that’s a little vague, because if learned one new guitar lick I would’ve reached that goal. So I’m going to make my goals more specific this time.

Another one of my goals was “writing songs”. Now that one I have accomplished. I’ve written 12 songs in the last year. I’ve written the music and lyrics, but I haven’t recorded them yet, so you can guess what’s coming.

I’ve performed before a live audience only once in 2021 which was a great joy, but any effort or attempt to start a band or musical group has not come off the ground because of all the covid restrictions.

For all my other goals in the categories “health”, “mind”, “work”, “family and friends” I did well. In the category “health” it was on and off, but I always bounced back. I regularly drink water (much more than I used to do), I stretch a lot, I have times were I don’t eat after 7 or 8 p.m. and I work hard to get my 7 to 8 hours of sleep.

I also spent a lot more time with my kids in 2021. I played a lot of soccer with the boys, we did a lot of family trips and now I’m teaching all three kids to play drums (They prefer drums over guitar. Haha!)

Now let’s take a look at some awesome happy guitar and music goals to have a vision and aim to realize some good stuff for 2022.

Continue Reading

Re-visiting The 5 Minute Guitar Practice Workout

By Klaus Crow 7 Comments

For most guitar players the hardest thing about practicing is getting started. I mean getting started EVERY DAY!

I don’t mean getting started when you’re in the mood or getting started when you are inspired, but I mean getting started every day. Ready or not.

I hear you saying, ‘Yes but I don’t have that kind of luxury, I am self employed and work late hours, I have so much homework everyday, I have three kids and a pet.’ I don’t have any time left.

You know what? We all do, and I know many people who are really really busy and still make time to play guitar.

The Rules

First of all, you have to make it a priority. Write down “Practice guitar 5 min” on your calendar every single day. Every single day!

Second: You have to find and make time to practice and let nobody take that time away from you. Come on! Make time for things YOU love.

And third: It’s about applying The 5 Minute Guitar Practice. The biggest hurdle to make time for practice is not time itself. It’s the THOUGHT of having no time or the THOUGHT of having no energy. It’s a resistance auto response in the brain.

Resistance Mode

When something seems challenging or seems like a lot of work the mind immediately sets off in resistance mode. It tries to convince you, in anyway it can, that you are too busy, too tired or too whatever.

Excuses will arise in all shapes and sizes, “I first have to check my inbox”, “I will pick up my guitar later in the afternoon or first thing tomorrow, “It’s been such a long day I deserve some time to relax” or “I am just so tired right now, because of this or that”.

You also might think you don’t have time to practice for an hour, 30 minutes, 20 minutes or even 10. The thought of such an amount of practice time can be too overwhelming for the mind and it will drop the idea of practicing straight to the garbage can.

But you know what? These are all cunning excuses of the mind. Don’t listen to these lies. Don’t believe them. You are being deceived! It’s a defense mechanism that tries to prevent you from taking action.

Your brain wants to reserve energy in anyway it can. You don’t need a defense mechanism to stop you from playing guitar! On the contrary, guitar playing will generate energy. Lots of it.

Continue Reading
Next Page »

Most Popular Posts

Easy Guitars Songs For Beginners

Best Acoustic Guitars under 450 Dollars

8 Most Important Chords for Beginners

Learn The Guitar Fingerboard in 16 Days

Easy Guitar Riffs & Intros for Beginners

16 Legendary Fingerpicking Patterns

The 5 Pentatonic Scale Shapes

How to Play Beautiful Open Chord Shapes

Best Guitar Amps for Practice and Small Gigs

50CoolBluesLicks 50CoolBluesLicks 50CoolBluesLicks

Categories

  • Chord Melody
  • Chords
  • Chord progression
  • Strumming | Rhythm
  • Fingerpicking
  • Scales
  • Soloing | Improv
  • Licks
  • Riffs
  • Excercise
  • Motivation
  • Rock
  • Blues
  • Gear
  • Songs
  • Solos
  • Music theory
  • Practice
  • Intervals
  • Arpeggios
  • Vocals | Singing
  • Ear training
  • Songwriting
  • Recording
  • Performing
  • Online guitar tools
  • Country
  • Metal
  • Jazz
  • Pop of all times
  • Best buy
  • Christmas
  • Ear practice
  • Lifestyle Design
  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
  • Uncategorized

Advertisement

Copyright © 2023 · Guitarhabits - About - Privacy Policy - Change Consent - Do Not Sell My Personal Information - Cookie Policy

Note: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Scroll Up