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Why I Stopped Practicing Guitar Scales (and Got Better at Playing Solos) 29 Jan 2013 | 04:00 pm
On my bookshelf I have a collection of classical studies for guitar by Fernando Sor and Matteo Carcassi. Fernando Sor is famous for his numerous "studies" - short guitar exercises - that have formed a...
Blues Rhythm Guitar Riff Accompaniment 20 Sep 2012 | 12:08 am
Have you ever watched a kids football match? You don't see much in the way of strategy or tactics. No elegant sweeping passes around the pitch. Instead you see a single clump of little players weaving...
3 Ways I Worked on Guitar With a Broken Collar Bone 9 Jul 2012 | 05:00 pm
On Monday 4th of June I broke my collar bone. I was cycling to work in the morning as usual when I hit an obstacle and flew through the air over the handlebars. I landed on my left shoulder and rolled...
Rhythm Guitar Octaves 11 May 2012 | 09:00 pm
Earlier this week I posted a lesson on How to Play Octaves on the Guitar. If you'd like an opportunity to put the octaves shown in that post into practice you should enjoy lesson on rhythm guitar play...
50 Ways to Become a Better Guitarist 9 May 2012 | 09:00 pm
The UK magazine site Music Radar recently published its list of 50 tips to help make you a better guitar player. There are a lot of tips that will help you to make progress in this densely packed list...
How to Play Octaves on the Guitar 7 May 2012 | 09:00 pm
This is a guitar lesson that will teach you just what the title says, how to play octave intervals on the guitar. But first - just in case you're not sure what an octave is - it starts with a very bri...
5 Ways to Meet Your Guitar Goals This Year 10 Mar 2012 | 12:00 am
This post offers guitar learners five tips to help organize themselves to meet learning and playing goals in 2012. We're now well into the first quarter of the year and I hope you are progressing nic...
Confessions of a Sloppy Player 8 Mar 2012 | 12:00 am
Today I’m happy to share with you a guest post from Dan Vuksanovich… I never set out to be a sloppy player. I don’t think anyone ever does. When I first started playing the guitar I had visions of...
Guitar Bends – Get Rid of Unwanted Noise 6 Mar 2012 | 12:00 am
One of the problems I experienced when I learned to play bends on the guitar was the unwanted noises that came from strings next to the one I was bending. I got similar problems too when playing pull-...
Review of Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus 29 Feb 2012 | 12:02 pm
Guitar Zero is a book that tells the story of professor of cognitive psychology Gary Marcus' as he turns himself into a living experiment to investigate the question "Can a 39 year old with no previou...
