The Beginner’s Guide to Starting Guitar: 10 Tips You Must Know
Learning to play guitar is fun, but where do you start? What kind of equipment is necessary? Luckily, once you have a guitar, you can pretty much get started, b...
Tone Tips: Amp Wattage
I often get asked what wattage amp do I recommend. The first thing I do is discuss what they are looking for, home use, small gigs, big gigs, etc. It’s really e...
5 Popular Blues Standards Every Guitarist Should Know
One of the most critical things you can do when learning how to play blues guitar is becoming familiar with the chord progressions of popular songs, and play th...
Tone Tips: Clean Boost
In this Tone Tips video lesson, I’ll demonstrate my 3 favorite clean boost pedals and how I prefer to use them. Clean boost pedals can contribute a lot to your ...
Learn to Pick Mozart’s “Minuet” (And More!) on Guitar
Learning classical guitar can be a daunting process - coordinating the left and right hand techniques can turn people off from tackling the style. However, almo...
Tone Tips: Dialing in Great Acoustic-Electric Guitar Tone
Getting a great live sound from an amplified acoustic has been a problem plaguing guitarists for years. In this edition of Tone Tips, I’ll show you how to get ...
Tone Tips: Dialing in a Classic Blues & Rock Guitar Tone
In this edition of Tone Tips, I look at dialing in a classic blues and blues rock tone. This is how I run my amps and is the way most classic players do as well...
2 Soloing Strategies Every Guitarist MUST Know
When soloing on guitar, it's easy to play something and feel that it doesn't really fit the rest of the song. It happens to every guitar player -- maybe you're ...
Twist Up Your Blues Guitar Rhythm Chops with Oz Noy
In Oz Noy's Twisted Guitar: Blues Rhythm, he makes it fun and exciting to practice rhythm guitar with 10 fast and funky blues rhythm etudes. He'll show you how ...
9 Ways to Jazz Up the Pentatonic Scale
Most guitar players are familiar with the pentatonic scale; often times it's the first scale you learn to play on the guitar. It's a major part of blues, rock, ...
3 Free Guitar Lessons to Funk Up Your Rhythm Chops
Any given funk tune relies on the rhythm chops of their guitar player – it's their job to lock in with the drummer and bass player to drive the tune as well as ...
9 Rock-Solid Rhythm Guitar Lessons from Jon Finn
Playing 8th and 16th note rhythm patterns is the backbone of what binds rock and funk together, and focusing on these rhythmic concepts will help you understand...