Developing Your Creativity: Pentatonics
Developing Your Creativity is a free weekly video guitar lesson series designed for beginner improvisers. Your instructor is Justin Schroder, who has many years...
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Developing Your Creativity: 3 Sequences
Developing Your Creativity is a free weekly video guitar lesson series designed for beginner improvisers. Your instructor is Justin Schroder, who has many years...
Life Lessons From GWAR
by Charlie Doom GWAR has perhaps been more successful at offending people than taking over the world, but that hasn't stopped the self-proclaimed "Scumdogs...
Re-Think the Band: Unconventional Live Lineups
by Rich Tozzoli Playing live can be addictive. But a lot of players never get to experience the feeling of satisfying a crowd — and satisfying themselves — b...
3 Questions: Richie Kotzen
by Charlie Doom initially found fame at the age of 21 in the hard rock band, Poison. Kotzen's creative and technical command of almost every musical genre ...
Daylight Savings
By Charlie Doom We’re still adjusting to the time change here, it’s been hard going. The coffee machine is down for the count; the tech says it wasn’t design...
Pat Metheny’s One-Man Band: “Orchestrion”
Pat Metheny released Orchestrion this past week. If I’ve counted correctly, beginning with Bright Size Life in 1975, this is Pat’s zillionth record. Not a fu...
Fireside Chat: Seymour Duncan
While the name Seymour Duncan might be synonymous with high quality pick ups and stompboxes, few know that before he was winding magnets and soldering wires, Se...
The Top 7 Guitar Stories of 2009
7. The Top 50 Guitar Albums of All-Time - With a lot of help from their readers, Guitar World released in February what they consider to be the 50 greatest guit...
Fireside Chat: John Wlaysewski
Our latest Fireside Chat is with a Zeppelin-loving, Fender-playing guitarist who is unafraid to go to 11 and shred on solos. His name? John Wlaysewski. He is th...
Branding: Musical Identity as a Career Move
by Rich Tozzoli On this past Veteran’s Day, the Punch-In ran a handful of videos featuring performances of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Slash was featured in ...
3 Questions – George Lynch
1. What's the most valuable career advice you've ever received?
Don’t quit your day job. 2. Should artists allow free downloads and file sharing -- or does ...