Pentatonic Scale: Horizontal Vision
In this free video guitar lesson, Giampiero Villa explains the usefulness of "horizontal vision" when playing the pentatonic scale. Check back for more lessons ...
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Top 5 Reasons Guitarists Choose a TrueFire Student Plan
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Jeff McErlain’s Cure for Your Summertime Blues: Hybrid Picking
Hybrid picking is a great technique to really open up your playing and a cool way to add some new sounds as well. In this free video guitar lesson, I show y...
Learn How to Improvise Using Intervals and Tetrachords
In June, I wrote an article for TrueFire that touched on how you get from topical knowledge to creativity and application. Here we’re going to walk that out ...
Dr. Corey Congilio’s Cure for Your Summertime Blues
In this free video guitar lesson, Corey Congilio shows you a secret of his that will help you conquer your Summertime Blues. Check it out! Learn more from Co...
Help Support the Writing & Recording of Adam Levy’s ‘Lower 48’ Suite
Pre-order now to support the writing & recording of Adam Levy's 'Lower 48' suite. Your pledge floats the music. #lower48 From Adam Levy: When I was 12...
My Favorite Thing: Tom Dempsey
About Tom Dempsey Guitarist Tom Dempsey's reputation in the New York jazz scene for hard swinging sophistication and pure musicality have made him a dist...
My Favorite Thing: Fareed Haque
About Fareed Haque Guitar virtuoso and master educator Fareed Haque has worked with Sting, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Joe Zawinul, Rams...
My Favorite Thing: Sheryl Bailey
This study is not only a great technique builder, but also an important tool to begin creating strong melodic phrases that outline the harmony. A great...
My Favorite Thing: Mimi Fox
One of my favorite things to do when improvising is superimposition. I’ll show you here in this video how to take a F Major 7 arpeggio and play it over a G7 cho...
My Favorite Thing: Christopher Woitach
A great way to organize your improvised solos is with the use of “Call and Response”, also known as “Question and Answer”. This is one of my favorite things to ...
My Favorite Thing: Tom Wolfe
It is fairly common for guitar players to memorize chord fingerings (or grips) and
then play songs using muscle memory. Speaking as a guitar player, I admit t...