Master Your Soloing Skills With These 10 Blues Guitar Lessons From Josh Smith
Over his life, Josh Smith has earned himself the opportunities to perform and record music professionally from a relatively young age. At just 14, he was sittin...
TrueFire Studios Announces New CEO, Owen Grover
TrueFire Studios, an alliance of leading online music education companies, today announced that Owen Grover has been named Chief Executive Officer. With more th...
Take Your Lead Playing To The Next Level With These 5 Blues Guitar Soloing Lessons
Exchanging musical ideas in a jam setting is one of the best ways you can grow as a guitarist. It allows you to pick up ideas from other players, work on your t...
Refresh Your Harmonic Palette With These 3 Diminished Blues Guitar Soloing Lessons
Take a minute to think about your favorite jazz-influenced blues guitar players and what makes them amazing. Trying to imagine all of the tricks that these play...
Take A Modern Approach To Grooving With These 9 Funk Bass Guitar Lessons
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...
Get Creative With Your Chord Voicings With These 8 Jazz Guitar Lessons
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...
A Note from TrueFire’s Founder: Our Action Plan
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...
10 Minor Jazz Comping Guitar Lessons With Fareed Haque
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...
5 Americana Guitar Soloing Lessons With Jason Loughlin
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...
10 Jazz Blues Guitar Lessons With Sean McGowan
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....
TrueFire Studios Offering 90 Days of Free All Access for K-12 Students & Teachers
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...
A Curated List of Resources for Musicians Affected by COVID-19
Source: Slice Times are tough for musicians. Live gigs everywhere have been canceled and sources of income have been stripped away seemingly overnight. Lucki...