Practice with purpose.
Spend about one-third of your playing time on hard or new material and two-thirds on fun, creative music: songs, riffs, jamming, improvising, and writing.
Rob’s School of Music
Turn your practice into real-world musicianship. Build confidence, prepare for gigs, and become someone other musicians want to work with.
By Rob Spampinato
Professional guitarist, educator, and founder of Rob’s School of Music.
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That’s the RSM philosophy. Enjoying music gives you a reason to return. Forward motion gives that enthusiasm a direction. This handbook helps you bring both into the work you do.
Spend about one-third of your playing time on hard or new material and two-thirds on fun, creative music: songs, riffs, jamming, improvising, and writing.
Prepare the whole performance: the music, the transitions, the equipment, and the way you connect with your bandmates and audience.
Communicate clearly, show up prepared, follow through, and make your musical contribution count.
You’ll also get a 30-day action plan and three printable worksheets to help you apply what you learn.
Plan your playing time, track what improved, and identify your next step.
Organize the schedule, contacts, lineup, equipment, and payment details before the show.
Capture what worked, choose one musical fix, and make the next performance stronger.
Whether you’re preparing for your first performance or already playing gigs, choose one idea and try it this week.
Download the Free Handbook25 pages. Practical guidance. Real-world music experience.
Learning an instrument shouldn't only happen inside a lesson room. At Rob's School of Music, students have opportunities to take what they're learning and actually do something with it.
Learn your instrument. Play the music you love. Join a real band. Perform on real stages. Write original music. Record in professional studios. Release your music into the world.
Rob's School of Music was founded by professional musician, educator and content creator Rob Spampinato. For more than 25 years, Rob has built his life around music.
He has toured and performed across the country, recorded professionally, worked with major music brands, been a PRS Guitars endorsed artist since 2007, authored an Amazon #1 bestselling guitar book and built an online community of more than 180,000 YouTube subscribers.
Through the Rob's School of Music platform and podcast, Rob has also interviewed some of the world's most respected musicians about the craft, career and life of making music.
Rob built RSM to give students something traditional music education too often misses: the experience of actually becoming a musician. Everything we do, from private lessons to bands, songwriting, recording and live performances, comes from that philosophy.
MEET ROBFor some students, music becomes a career. For others, it becomes the thing they love doing after school. For others, it's where they find confidence, creativity, friends and a place to belong.
We take the music seriously, but we take the student even more seriously. Every student's goals, personality, learning style and musical interests are different. Their lessons should be too.
We meet students where they are and help them keep moving forward.
A great teacher can completely change someone's relationship with music. That's why the RSM faculty is made up of musicians who don't simply understand an instrument. They live music.
Our instructors perform, record, write, create and continue developing their own craft. They're also educators who understand that knowing how to play something and knowing how to teach someone else to play it are two very different skills.