Mastering Extended Guitar Chords: Unlock Sophisticated Jazz and Fusion Textures
You’ve mastered your barre chords, you can fly through pentatonic scales, and your rhythm is locked in. But when you listen to your favorite players—think the h...
Why Limiting Your Options Sparks Creativity (The 2-String Rule)
Creative guitar practice does not always mean learning more scales, adding more licks, or expanding your fretboard options. In fact, many players discover the o...
Beyond the Scale: Mastering Chromatic Guitar Notes for Advanced Soloing
You’ve mastered your pentatonics. You can navigate the major modes with your eyes closed. But when you listen to the greats—whether it's the sophisticated lines...
Basic Guitar Adjustments That ANYONE Can Do
By Eric Haugen You pick up your guitar and something just feels off. The strings buzz against the frets. Maybe they feel impossibly high under your fingers. ...
Call and Response Guitar: The Conversation of Improvisation
Call and response guitar is one of the most powerful tools an improvising musician can develop. At its core, it turns solos into conversations, phrases into sen...
Syncopation Explained: Adding Life to Your Strumming
Master Guitar Syncopation and Transform Your Rhythm Playing Table of Contents What Is Guitar Syncopation, and Why Does It Matter?
How Syncopation W...
Guitar Dynamics Control: Why Tone Is in the Fingers, Not the Amp
Guitar dynamics are one of the most misunderstood elements of great playing. Many guitarists spend years chasing tone through pedals, pickups, and amp settings,...
The Art of Silence: Why You Should Play Fewer Notes
Guitar phrasing is often misunderstood as something mysterious or advanced. In reality, it begins with a simple but challenging idea: learning when not to play....
Mastering Guitar Style Analysis: Unlock Your Musical Versatility
We’ve all been there. You pick up your guitar, tune up, and... play the exact same lick you played yesterday. And the day before. It’s the dreaded intermediate ...
Intermediate Rhythm Guitar Exercises That Actually Work
7 Rhythm Guitar Exercises Every Intermediate Player Needs to Woodshed Here's a truth most intermediate guitarists need to hear: your rhythm playing is th...
5 Signs You’ve Hit a Guitar Plateau (And How to Break It)
You remember the feeling: that initial rush when you first mastered the F chord, or the lightning bolt of excitement when your first pentatonic solo actually so...
How to Review Your Own Practice Sessions (Objectively)
You sound incredible in the bedroom. The reverb is just right, your fingers feel loose, and that new lick you’ve been shedding feels effortless. But then, you s...