Writing songs on guitar can be easy. Writing great songs on guitar can be nigh impossible. We asked veteran songwriter, recording artist, and guitar maestro, Ma...
Rhythm guitar may not be the sexiest style in the world, but it's a fundamental skill on your path to become a guitar great (especially if you have any hopes of...
Not only does it feel super rewarding to finally learn the cover of your favorite song, it also helps you get more comfortable with new chords, riffs, and trans...
by Jeff Scheetz, TrueFire's Director of Education Now more than ever we are surrounded by (some might say bombarded with) music every day. Rather than just l...
One of our favorite places to hang on the web with other guitar players is /r/guitar, or the subreddit for Guitar over at Reddit. It's a place to interact with,...
Source: this r/guitar post by u/circleof5surecanjive Let's be clear, when I say "practice scales" I am not talking about learning a couple of half-baked shap...
We’ve all heard our favorite guitarists talk about how much horn players influence their playing. Listen to any of the great jazz, blues or rock guitarists and ...
In this free video guitar lesson from his Fingerstyle Breakthroughs course, Tommy Emmanuel gives a short fingerstyle performance of the song "House of the Risin...
If you are here reading this, you’re probably serious about becoming an awesome guitar player. But no matter how hard you practice or intend to practice, you ne...
n this lesson we combine the dominant grips we learned in earlier lessons in this series with the minor7th grips we’ve learned to play typical minor blues chang...
In this lesson we learn two Freddie Green style three note grips for minor 7th chords. Using these grips we locate the i7, iv7 and v7 chords in the key of A min...
In this lesson we locate the VI7 and II7 chords using our two Freddie Green dominant 7th chord grips. I then demonstrate how to use these tools to play the 12 b...