Music Shop Tips and Etiquette
Whether you shop at a place like Andy’s Music in Chicago, Corner Music in Nashville, or a Guitar Center in your hometown, it’s good to know the best ways to sho...
Guitar Lessons
Breaking Out Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Playing Live
Lights Up It’s go time. You crank up the amp and start rocking out that ballad you’ve been working on for weeks. You hit every note, and pluck every string j...
Practice These Songs to Get Great at Fingerstyle Technique (With Tabs)
In honor of Brooks Robertson's Fingerstyle Survival Guide that was just released, we wanted to give you some extra practice to become masters of the fingerstyle...
10 Artists with the Best Guitar Faces
Now that our #MyGuitarFace contest is in full swing, we've put together a list of the 10 artists with the best Guitar Faces. Maybe you will find some inspirati...
Martin Molin Makes Mind-Blowing Musical Marble Machine
Check out the mind-blowing video above of a musical marble machine built by Martin Molin (of Swedish band Wintergatan), who also composed the music being played...
Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive Purchased for an Academic Study
According to the New York Times, Bob Dylan's private trove, which had been little more than a rumor, has been acquired for an estimated $15 million to $20 milli...
The Difference a Guitar Delay Pedal Makes
Delay is a great effect for guitar players. It can take something moderately cool and make it very cool, as demonstrated in this video by Jim Lill. Examples:...
New Music Video from Rusty Cooley’s Band, Day of Reckoning: “Left To Follow”
Check out Rusty Cooley's band, Day of Reckoning, and their music video for the single "Left To Follow" from the album "Into The Fire, Part 1" - available on: iT...
This is Rock ‘n’ Roll.
With Rocktoberfest in full effect this month at TrueFire, it got us thinking... what IS rock 'n' roll, exactly? We searched far and wide for the answer, spoke t...
Brooklyn Blues Guitar Lesson: Sliding Double Stops
TrueFire Educator Jeff McErlain has just launched his first installment of his new weekly video blog called Jeff McErlain's Brooklyn Blues. Each week Jeff will ...
Brooklyn Blues Guitar Lesson: Quantized Bending
TrueFire Educator Jeff McErlain has just launched his first installment of his new weekly video blog called Jeff McErlain's Brooklyn Blues. Each week Jeff will ...
12-year-old Brandon Niederauer Shreds T-Bone Walker’s “Stormy Monday”
Check out 12-year-old guitar phenom Brandon Niederauer shredding T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday" at the Roots Rock Revival at Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY...