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Learn The History And Traditions Of Blues With These 9 Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons From Rev. Robert Jones

March 20, 2020

Blues, as a style, is the most influential music genre that America has ever known. It's origins date back over 130 years, yet paved the way for popular styles ...

Rescheduled Listening Room Festival Offers Online Performance Schedule

March 20, 2020

The 9th Annual Listening Room Festival, which is sponsored by TrueFire, has been rescheduled for November, but festival artists will be streaming live performan...

Expand Your Sonic Palette With These 6 Wah-Wah Guitar Lessons

March 19, 2020

There are a large handful of electric guitar effects that have revolutionized the way we hear modern guitar music. Distortion, reverb, and delay are some incred...

5 Jazz Standard Soloing Guitar Lessons With Frank Vignola

March 18, 2020

Getting better as a guitar player often involves jamming and performing with other musicians. That is where a substantial amount of your growth happens naturall...

7 Heavy Rock Soloing Guitar Lessons With Alex Skolnick

March 18, 2020

Whether you are improvising a lead line, or crafting the perfect solo, you are always connecting different musical ideas together. This is how we express oursel...

8 Blues Guitar Lessons To Light Up Your Lead Playing

March 16, 2020

Blues music, as a style, has paved the way for many great, iconic guitar players. The players who have really shone through developed some characteristics about...

7 Single-Note Guitar Licks To Fire Up Your Soloing In Any Style

March 13, 2020

When you start playing the guitar, or any instrument, you usually end up choosing a style or genre on which to focus. Blues, jazz, R&B, and rock might be some g...

Learn How to Captivate Your Audience: 9 Free Songwriting Guitar Lessons from Willy Porter

March 13, 2020

If you are a relatively new songwriter, or you've been at it for a while, you've likely encountered some common roadblocks all the same. Figuring out how to sta...

Please Join Us in Supporting Pat Martino on GoFundMe

March 10, 2020

Dear TrueFire Community, I can’t think of anyone who has contributed more to the art of jazz guitar, the history of music, and the brotherhood of musicians t...

Learn To Jazz Solo Like A Pro With These 4 Bebop Guitar Lessons

March 9, 2020

Jamming with and interacting with other musicians in a performance context is one of the best ways to get better at playing. This holds especially true for bebo...

Step Up Your Soloing With These 4 Blues Guitar Lessons From Robben Ford

March 6, 2020

One of the tried and true best ways to get better at your solo playing is to share the stage with other musicians. So, why not share it with one of the most pro...

Take Your Rhythm Playing To The Next Level With These 3 Blues Guitar Comping Lessons

March 5, 2020

It would be an understatement to say that honing your skills as a rhythm blues player is a satisfying feat This, however, can come as a challenging feat for som...

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