Dan O'Connor

There is a theory that in order to become a virtuoso in your instrument that you need to practice a total of 10,000 hours. That is a lot of hours and very intimidating to most people who want to get good at playing guitar for fun However the 100 hour rule is another philosophy that claims you can be better than 95% of the population if you practice something for 100 hours Click here  to book an online private guitar lesson today to get started with a focused practice plan That is only about 20 minutes a day for one year. This is a very realistic goal and you will be able to have very functional guitar skills in that time with which you can have a lot of fun I really like this 100 hour idea and I strive to practice new riffs and skills at least 20 minutes a day. One of my favorite things to do is record my practice as a video and post it to Instagram as a reel with tabs No matter how much you practice something when you go to record on audio or video you realize that you don't reall...

Hi I'm Dan O'Connor, I started playing guitar when I was 13 years old by learning all the standard riffs everyone else does like Stairway to Heaven, Iron Man, Smoke on the Water, etc. I also got into singing and writing songs in my teens Then I went on to the Hartford Conservatory of Music and studied jazz guitar for 2 years. After that I went to the Hartt School of Music where I got a Bachelor's degree in music business  I learned the guitar fretboard inside out in college and studied music theory to an advanced level. I also took vocal lessons in school which helped improve my singing skills  I taught guitar in a music store while going to college as well. However I really did not enjoy teaching little kids. I might like teaching adults advanced guitar and music theory. Someday I may do that Click here  to book an online private guitar lesson today to get started with a focused practice plan In the 90s and 2000s I tried getting record and publishing deals as...

I'm starting this blog as a journey of making money doing music and photography online. I first began posting my daily guitar practice as reels to Instagram in January 2023 In the past year a few of my guitar tutorial reels have gone viral on Instagram taking me from about a thousand subscribers to almost 100k Click here  to book an online private guitar lesson today to get started with a focused practice plan In the past I had released music on Spotify and other streaming services. But for what those services pay it no longer seems worth my time I also had a website selling royalty free music called DanoSongs.com but now that type of music is more freely available and I stopped working on that project So now I'm looking into other ways to make money playing guitar, taking photos and making videos  I'm taking courses on Udemy which teach how to do paid collaborations. Now that I have a lot of Instagram followers this may be a way to bring in income