Learn How to Create Interesting Licks & Phrases on Guitar
Jazz, rock, and blues musicians need to be able to modify any lick or phrase in their vocabulary to fit the groove that they're playing over in a creative and f...
Learn Jazz Arrangements for Solo Guitar
One of the greatest leaps a guitarist must make is the leap from playing with a band to learning to play solo. A guitarist must go from playing standard chords ...
4 Ways to Find an Excellent Guitar Teacher
Guitar lessons could make the difference between giving up and viewing your instrument as a source of lifelong enjoyment. Guitar instructors not only motivate b...
13 “No Guitar is Safe” Podcast Episodes Featuring TrueFire Educators
One of the most popular guitar podcasts out there, No Guitar is Safe, is hosted by longtime friend of the 'Fire Jude Gold of Guitar Player Magazine. He describe...
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 ...