Here’s my theory on practice:

Play guitar → enjoy yourself → play more guitar.

This is especially true when “play more guitar” leads to “get better at guitar”:

It’s a virtuous cycle… when it works.

But I’m guessing the reason you’re reading this is that it’s stopped working for you.

That’s ok. We can fix it. We can get it working again.

We’ll need to look at:

• Concepts
• Strategies
• Tactics

They’re in that order because there’s a clear hierarchy:

• Tactics without strategy are inefficient.
• Strategies that ignore concepts are destined to fail.

So let’s start with a few concepts.