Here are some insightful videos for students of guitar.
This is the first video in a series of six. The whole series is great.
"I would sit down all my first time students and say we got to learn the first position chords. So I had a little piece of paper that was called the magic chord sheet and it had seventeen usable chords on there."
"If you get used to just those fifteen or twenty chords, they will suggest to you where to go from there."
This is also part of a series. Watch the whole series.
"First and foremost, I think your attraction to the instrument needs to be very organic."
"Three hours of scales. You know, I would write that down and I would just do it."
"There's the technical side...but then the deeper dimension of playing an instrument is connecting with the musical voice inside of you."
A really cool look at a what focused practice looks like.