The modern funk bassist has an important job aside from playing with good time, tone, and technique. This bassist has to capture grooves spanning several genera...
Any time you encounter a jazz standard, you're almost always dealing with at least one of 6 very common chord progressions. 2-5-1 major, 2-5-1 minor, 1-4-1, 1-6...
It’s quite late here in St. Petersburg, FL. After a long day of calls with our artists and educators, and just now clicking off a video conference call with sev...
A vast majority of the time a band is interested in hiring a jazz guitar player, it is not for their ability to play lead lines and take solos. instead, they ar...
When we, as guitarists, play with other musicians, we learn an immense amount. When we're playing rhythm, we get the chance to hear other soloists and pick up o...
Along the historic timeline of American music, traditional country blues evolved into an electric style. This marked the first bricks in the road to jazz music....
With music being so near and dear to us at TrueFire Studios, it has been heartwrenching to watch the K-12 system grind to a halt, knowing that thousands, if not...
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Times are tough for musicians. Live gigs everywhere have been canceled and sources of income have been stripped away seemingly overnight. Lucki...
Blues, as a style, is the most influential music genre that America has ever known. It's origins date back over 130 years, yet paved the way for popular styles ...
The 9th Annual Listening Room Festival, which is sponsored by TrueFire, has been rescheduled for November, but festival artists will be streaming live performan...
There are a large handful of electric guitar effects that have revolutionized the way we hear modern guitar music. Distortion, reverb, and delay are some incred...
Getting better as a guitar player often involves jamming and performing with other musicians. That is where a substantial amount of your growth happens naturall...
