Elevate Your Songwriting Skills With These 6 Acoustic Guitar Intro Lessons
It may seem like it goes without saying, but this can be easy to forget: one of the most essential parts of a song is it's intro. A strong intro captivates your...
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10 Bass Guitar Lessons To Fortify Your Technique Foundations
It is important for working bass players to have an understanding of a wide scope of fundamental techniques and harmonic approaches. This is ultimately because ...
Lock Into The Pocket With These 2 Funk Rhythm Guitar Lessons From Carl Burnett
It's not uncommon for a guitarist to be tasked with coming up with a "tight" rhythm part. This holds particularly true when playing funk, soul, and old-school R...
5 Fearless Chordal Licks To Expand Your Electric Guitar Vocabulary
From playing in clubs and weddings in his teens, to arena touring in his 20's, to present day as world touring musician and producer, Carl Verheyen has been a p...
5 Free Jazz Blues Soloing Guitar Lessons from Frank Vignola
The most comprehensive way to improve your guitar playing is to perform with other musicians. In Frank Vignola’s Jazz Blues edition of Trading Solos, you get a ...
Robben Ford Song Lesson: “Bound For Glory”
Paul McCartney once said that even if a songwriting session didn't turn out the way you'd hoped, it was still valuable practice. And that is exactly how you hon...
Fire Up Your Electric Guitar Soloing with 5 Hot Licks from Redd Volkaert
Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton and countless other top artists that he’s performed or recorded with would agree — “Redd Volkaert is a master of the Tele...
8 Blues Guitar Lessons to Take Your Soloing to the Next Level
A great solo is an augmentation of the song you're performing. It's catchy, hummable, and it's a signature of the soloist. This is the way he or she tells a sto...
8 Jazz Guitar Lessons To Enrich Your Harmonic Palette
Whether you write solo jazz guitar pieces or play in ensemble settings, it is helpful to always be upgrading your harmonic palette. New grips, chord shapes, and...
8 Fingerpicking Guitar Lessons To Help You Improve Your Acoustic Songwriting
Rhythm and groove are essential factors in any musical performance. These are what set the vibe of the song, which supports the story unfolding within song’s me...
6 Folk Jazz Guitar Lessons from Adam Levy
Folk Jazz is what could be described as a unique fusion of Jazz with other American roots styles. These influences include R&B, Blues, Country, Singer/songwrite...
Learn the Secrets of the World’s Greatest Blues Harp Players with 7 Free Harmonica Lessons
Whether you're playing blues, country, or just along side a singer-songwriter, the vocal-esque timbre of a harmonica solo never fails to command an audience's a...
