• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Adam Rafferty

Funky Fingerstyle Guitar

  • Home
  • Guitar Lessons
    • Free Christmas Tabs
  • My Book
  • Store
  • Tour
  • Blog
    • All Posts List
  • Podcast
    • All Episodes List
  • About
  • Contact
    • NEW – “Ask Adam” Voicemail
    • Booking Contact
    • Contact (email)
  • Get Your FREE Guitar Course
  • Show Search
Hide Search
You are here: Home / Archives for Success

Success

Want Better Guitar Technique? Embrace Your Authenticity

By Adam Rafferty 19 Comments

Adam Rafferty - How to Embrace Your Authenticity

The way that many of us have been taught to think about learning music is like this:

  • we function like computers
  • if we get musical data input, and practice it enough, we should be able to play it back
  • if we can’t play it back, it means we need to practice it more

This model has never really worked for me 100%. There’s much more to it than that.
[Read more…] about Want Better Guitar Technique? Embrace Your Authenticity

3 Tips for Breaking Out of Your Guitar Comfort Zone

By Adam Rafferty 12 Comments

Adam Rafferty - 3 tips for breaking out of your guitar comfort zone
Lately I have been working on some new guitar techniques that are taking me “outside my comfort zone.”

Working on new things can be very unsettling – for all of us. Sometimes feeling like a beginner is fun, but at other times a lot of mental resistance comes up.

[Read more…] about 3 Tips for Breaking Out of Your Guitar Comfort Zone

How to Practice Guitar Like Bruce Lee

By Adam Rafferty 37 Comments

bruce-lee-2When I am asked about practicing guitar, I usually preach the gospel of repetitive mindful practice.

However – I have been wondering lately…”do I really know what the heck I am doing?”

You can usually find me on tour in a hotel room practicing the pieces I play on stage like “Billie Jean”, “Superstition” , “In My Life” for the 10,000th time.

  • Have I lost my mind – is this focus or obsession?
  • Have I become a simple person and “one trick pony”?
  • Have I lost my ability and flair to do a broad spectrum of music?
  • Have I lost my creativity?

[Read more…] about How to Practice Guitar Like Bruce Lee

How to Get More Paying Gigs Playing the Guitar

By Adam Rafferty 16 Comments

ar-bl-paying-gigs-plying-guitar


This article is about some of my early struggles as a pro guitar player and how I overcame them…I hope you like the info here.

As a young jazz guitar player, I really struggled to make ends meet.

I taught, played weddings, and did little gigs and in NYC it was a “scramble”. If you live in a smaller town, with fewer musicians – it can be a little easier.

You may be in this situation yourself, wondering how you can boost your gigs, raise your prices, and so on.

I needed a solution for my situation at the time.

[Read more…] about How to Get More Paying Gigs Playing the Guitar

It’s LIVE! Try ‘Study With Adam’ Free for 14 days…

By Adam Rafferty 1 Comment

It’s HERE! Thanks for rolling with me this week. StudyWithAdam.com is launched, LIVE and open for registration.

swa-launch-5-its-live-1

Click here NOW to Try it FREE for 14 days

[Read more…] about It’s LIVE! Try ‘Study With Adam’ Free for 14 days…

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Go to page 5
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 18
  • Go to Next Page »
Learn my arrangements, get personal feedback and more. Try Study With Adam FREE for 14 days CLICK HERE

Adam Rafferty

Copyright © 2025 Adam Rafferty and Crescent Ridge Publishing | Email Policy | Privacy GDPR, & Cookies