4. Just. Not. Practicing. It's this simple: If you want to get better at something, you have to do it over and over again. No shortcuts, no magic formulas, and no amount of youtube watching is going to makeup for the hours and hours you need to spend with your instrument. In today's day in age there is an unprecedented wealth of educational material at our fingertips on everything from mowing lawns to writing code to playing bass, and the vast majority of it is free. On pape

3. Not Learning To Read Musi I'd like to preface this post with two statements: Learning to read music does not make you a better musician. Learning to read music will not make you a worse musician. There is nothing more divisive in my experience as a music educator than student's attitudes towards being presented with a page full of little black dots, and not a TAB number in sight.... I see a range of emotions pass over their faces: fear, frustration, confusion, dread and I