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