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Practicing Guitar and The Illusion of Perfection

By Adam Rafferty 3 Comments

practicingI have a lot of students uploading videos to me on StudyWithAdam.com, and often they’ll send a note along with their video upload:

“Adam, I could not play this without making mistakes, but here is the best I could do….”

First off…I’ll admit it…I am as guilty as you are 🙂

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How to Beat the Devil With Your Guitar

By Adam Rafferty 29 Comments

Adam Rafferty - How to Beat the Devil With Your Guitar
(Warning – I use some shocking language in this post. Don’t worry I won’t use it at the dinner table or in front of your kids.)

I have story that have wanted to share with you for a while. It’s about “beating the Devil” with your guitar.

As with many life lessons, I recently had to “re-certify” that I learned this lesson.
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NEW CD “Play Pretty for the People”, Release Dates 8/30 and 9/6

By Adam Rafferty 3 Comments

Play Pretty for the People - Adam Rafferty Fingerstyle Guitar CDThis is just a quick post to let you know that my new solo fingerstyle CD “Play Pretty for the People” will become available twice 🙂
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Saying No to Distraction and Yes to Yourself

By Adam Rafferty 8 Comments

Saying no to distraction and YES to yourself - Adam Rafferty
Greetings, and I hope you are doing fabulously!

This year has been full of rich, satisfying “real life” stuff like touring, family,
moving, teaching my “Study With Adam” online guitar students, and recording.

Transparency Report and Major Goal Achieved

In January 2016 I offered you a “transparency report” and I mentioned one of my goals for 2016 was to record a new CD.
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My 2015 in Review – Successes, Failures and What I Learned

By Adam Rafferty 14 Comments

2015-reviewGreetings and Happy New Year!

Now that 2016 is here it’s time for me to take stock of what has happened in my personal & professional life in 2015.

The question is “Where did I rock it, and where did I fall short?”

In this post I will share the good, the bad and the ugly with you….and yep, there’s some ugly!
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