Get out of your box and learn something: Move out of the comfort zone

Learn Something New Every Day- This is a good habit you can do to get your mojo working, and most importantly, motivation. Find one good thing a day that you didn’t know already and learn it. It can be a riff, a lick, a chord, a scale, an exercise, a song, a melody, a strum pattern, whatever moves your mojo.

The routine of seeking out, and playing a new piece of guitar Mojo & Info on a daily basis will feed your subconscious killer guitar instincts, and by adding new concepts to your muscle memory will greatly increase your ability to express yourself on the guitar.

Make this a part of your day and you’ll find that as you continue on your journey, you will be well on your way and standing at the Crossroads, ready to take on Mr. Mojo himself.

Get Your Mojo Working: Learn to play with others

Get Your Jam On! One of the most important things for a guitarist is to "Get His or Her Mojo Working" with some accompaniment.
Playing in a live situation with other musicians in the same room is Hugh (You should put yourself in those situations as often as possible), but many good tools can be just as beneficial. The looper pedal can really be a Mojo booster. For playing back a chord idea or just working things out. This is a must-have tool for the mojo trick bag. Backing tracks, too, are a great source for Mojo, such as Pro backing tracks/jam tracks with live recordings that can be downloaded through the internet. Check out the ones at TrueFire they have the best. Software programs such as BIAB Band In A Box (highly recommended for its ease of use and versatility) all of these can help get our mojo skills workings.

Playing with a live band or good quality backing tracks or looper will greatly improve your timing, your endurance, your improvisational skills and your groove.

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Know Thy Self: One must look inside to see.....

Record Thy Self To Know Thy Self-There's no better way of seeing your guitar playing objectively. This can also motivate you to work on being a better guitarist. The mirror is to the dancer, what recording is to the guitarist. There's an endless supply of free and not so free devices for recording yourself. When your recording yourself on a regular basis, you can listen to yourself with fresh ears and hear the things you like and dislike. You can find strengths and weaknesses and focus your practice accordingly. This also applies to videos as well seeing and hearing can really help find those trouble spots.

Try recording thy self playing rhythm and then record some parts such as leads, melodies, rhythms and you’ll learn more about composition, and layering parts.

The other benefit of recording yourself is that you will have a record of your mojo as a guitarist. The journey of a guitarist is always (or should be) one of growth, and recording yourself is a great way to see/hear how far down the road you've come.

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Don't Fret - Just Do It !

Know your Notes, and Triads-This one can be debated, but as for my own personal experience, the doors didn't just open but were blown off their hinges, when I finally took the time to nail this down, and it wasn't that hard or timely. I've seen many ways to do this as well as software tools and websites, butas I heard Robben Ford say it.."Just Do It".

Knowing the triads and inversions and notes that make them up will kick your mojo to the next level in ways you may not have thought of, being able to chord comp any rhythm part other that strumming away all day on G chord will be history. Being able to see the triads of the underlying harmony no matter where you are on the fret-board will bring a new dynamic to your soloing ,and chord tones are the mojo that makes a great solo.

There are tons of free and no so free Mojo & Info on learning the triads, some of the basic 1-3-5 triads can be learned from the Caged System, and can be a good starting point, but being able to see the triad the note extinctions (1-3-5-7-13) and the names of these notes and how it all relates to the key you're playing in bring home the Mojo!

Visualize and Conceptualize 

Visualize- This one I do all the time, I could be sitting in traffic or waiting on my next flight or trying to fall asleep, instead of counting sheep, I'm visualizing the fret-board and seeing all the notes of a C chord, or all the octaves, or whatever.

You don’t have to have a guitar to practice. There’s plenty of time in the day that you can use to improve your playing. Whenever you have a spare few seconds to daydream or you are zoning out in a meeting or waiting in line, etc., use the time to go inside your mind’s eye and ears and visualize yourself Playing a lick, riff or song or count out a groove and work on your rhythm.

See yourself playing the part with ease and relaxed, at one with the strings, feel your Pick (if you use one) in your fingers. See yourself in your natural surrounding where you feel comfortable most. Repeat this whenever you can and you’ll find you’re better than you were before. This sounds simple and It is! "Just Do It".

Practice Make Perfect

Take Lessons- The best thing a guitarist can do to get some mojo in their playing is to take some lessons. There's a ton of Internet resources. YouTube, books, pro instructional videos,  nothing compares to a one-on-one experience from a skilled mojo guitar educator. A teacher can point out “issues” or problems you can’t see yourself. They've already been down the road to guitar mojo madness. They can also help with guidance on the important question of “What to work on ”.

 A good educator also will help you save time by helping you sift through all of the information out there. They can lead you on the right path toward your goals as a guitarist.
Guitar teachers get paid to make you better. Laying out some cold hard cash money will make you take your study seriously.

Today teachers can be found pretty much everywhere, on YouTube, everyone and their brother is a guitar teacher. Of course, most teachers have an online presence where you can go check out how they play.

Guitarist/Students today have the opportunity to work online with some of the best educators around the world. The student can get video assignments, and feedback and guidance on videos they send to the educator regardless of where the student and educator living in the world. There's no reason not to take some guitar lessons, even if it just once in a while to see if you're still on course.

Improvisation: The Mother of All!

Improvise-  This is the fun part for me. It's let it all hang-out time. I'll throw on a Jam track, take a few sips of green tea to get the mojo flowing, and let go. Trying not to think too much. This is where all the stuff you have been working on gets a good workout. It could be trying out those new blues licks with a new feel and groove. Playing a Mixolydian scale and just targeting the thirds of the underlying harmony. Getting good legato to feel over a good fusion backing track, whatever gets your mojo working.

Sometimes I like to do what I call FreeStyle. I throw on a new groove and play whatever and let just my ears do the work. If I hit a bad note, I'm just a half-step or whole-step away from a good note. It only takes a mili second to get there and it train my ears to hear this. It also helps to develop chromatic's into my playing. I use all twelve notes and not think of any scale shapes, but focus on being musical and locked into the groove. This is where the music can really just happen and you should have your recorder on to catch those new guitar lick ideas. This one can take time to get a handle on but is well worth mojo effort.