“I see guys playing and it is almost like they are afraid of silence and space. You’ve got to think of playing as a conversation”: Tom Bukovac on 4 mistakes every intermediate player makes – and how to avoid them

Tom Bukovac.

There comes a point in every guitar player’s journey when they hit the wall. They can play, no question, there are chops, a lick vocabulary, but there’s something missing that separates the beginner-intermediate player from the pro. Tom Bukovac has been thinking a lot about this lately, and has distilled it down to four things that all intermediate players get wrong – and addressing these issues in your playing can take you to the next level.

On the latest episode of his Homeskoolin’ YouTube series, Bukovac laid out four telltale signs of the intermediate player. “These are things I noticed guys doing that are just getting going and I noticed it immediately,” he says. “I can’t stop noticing it. It’s things that everybody must get through.”