Author: Gohar Vardanyan

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TV and Practice

I was at a festival recently where we had a small Q&A with the students and participants on various topics on anything and everything related to life with the guitar. Naturally the topic of...

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Favorite Apps for Practicing

Given the amount of time I spend with some sort of gadget in my hands, it is time sum up some of my favorite apps that I use for guitar or music purposes. Gone...

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Guitarists and their Nails

As I write this, I’m on a plane back from the Hamilton International Guitar Festival in Ontario, Canada. As customary for a guitar festival, we spent an entire weekend playing, listening, teaching, eating and...

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Choosing a Program

When we are still in school studying for a degree there are specific repertoire requirements that we need to fulfill in order to graduate. This repertoire can be assigned to us by our teachers...

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Your Home on the Web

One of the most useful classes I took during my undergraduate degree was a course on web design. At the time I was looking for a way to take a liberal arts credit without...

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Inflight Productivity

As I sit on a plane from Sarasota back to New York City, I realized what better time to write about airplane productivity than when I’m sitting on a plane being productive! Being a...

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Getting Out of a Repertoire Rut

We have all found ourselves in a repertoire rut, when we keep practicing and playing the same pieces but don’t seem to make any progress. This happens with individual pieces, that seem to get...

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Attire for the Female Guitarist

Initially I wasn’t going to write a separate post for girls attire on stage, but after the surprising feedback I got on Facebook for my Stage Etiquette post, I decided that I’m going to...