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Why "good enough" is killing your playing

3d ago · 4 min read · There's a version of every song you play where you can get through it. Not cleanly, not the way you'd want to play it in front of someone, but you can get from the beginning to the end without stoppin

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The plateau is real, and here's what actually breaks through it

Mar 9 · 4 min read · I spent most of last year convinced I'd stopped improving at guitar. I was practicing four or five days a week, working on the same material, putting in the time. Nothing was changing. The parts that

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Am I getting better?

Mar 2 · 4 min read · If you've been practicing regularly and it doesn't feel like anything is changing, you're probably wrong. You are almost certainly better than you were a month ago. The problem is that you can't hear

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Rest days: why NOT practicing every day makes you a better musician

Feb 23 · 3 min read · I’m a guitar player, and I also train for long-distance running. The distances aren’t important here, what mattered was a lesson I picked up from running: every serious training plan builds in rest da

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Why I Built a Music Practice App Instead of Using Voice Memos

Feb 16 · 6 min read · I'm a guitarist and vocalist who has been recording practice takes for years. I built RunThrough, a music practice recording app, because I got tired of scrolling through hundreds of unnamed voice memos trying to figure out if I was getting any bette...

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Why "good enough" is killing your playing

The plateau is real, and here's what actually breaks through it

Am I getting better?

Rest days: why NOT practicing every day makes you a better musician

Why I Built a Music Practice App Instead of Using Voice Memos

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Carl @ RunThrough's blogs

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Why "good enough" is killing your playing

The plateau is real, and here's what actually breaks through it

Am I getting better?

Rest days: why NOT practicing every day makes you a better musician

Why I Built a Music Practice App Instead of Using Voice Memos