Which Guitarist Is The Best?! – Practice & Motivation: Episode 1 – Rob Garland
In this episode I discuss how music is subjective and the concept of a “best guitarist” makes no sense. I give advice on celebrating the way you play, building ...
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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...
7 Single-Note Guitar Licks To Fire Up Your Soloing In Any Style
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...
9 Melodic Blues Guitar Soloing Lessons With Marko Karhu
If you just take a moment to ponder it, you can probably think of a couple of your favorite guitar solos. The ones you are thinking of are probably your favorit...
Improvise Powerful Lines With These 3 Chord Tone Soloing Guitar Lessons
Honing into chord tones is arguably the most important melodic technique when it comes to crafting a solo or improvising. But, what are chord tones? Chord tones...
Lock Into The Pocket With These 3 Groove Guitar Lessons From Carl Burnett
Groove is omnipresent. It is everywhere and always happening. It’s in our hearts every time they beat, and on the shore every time a wave crashes upon it. And, ...
Fire Up Your Electric Guitar Soloing with 5 Hot Licks from Redd Volkaert
Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton and countless other top artists that he’s performed or recorded with would agree — “Redd Volkaert is a master of the Tele...
Explore the Origins of American Roots Music with 8 Free Guitar Lessons from Scott Sharrard
American roots music originated in the southern states and ultimately caravanned up the Mississippi River to other music hubs like Chicago and New York. The ele...
6 Free Electric Guitar Lessons to Help You Craft More Creative Solos
We, as guitar players, are constantly striving to express ourselves more creatively and more fluently. And, when we work on improving our soloing skills, oftent...
Hone Your Soloing With These 7 Burnin’ Country Guitar Lessons
In order to solo effectively in any given style, you first need to compile a lexicon of licks, and be able to improvise with them authentically. This holds part...
Learn To Craft Sweet Solos Using Guide Tones With These 2 Guitar Soloing Lessons
Soloing over a song that is more complex than your standard twelve bar blues progression can be a challenge. Most players rely on playing the blues box, which w...
Craft More Creative Lead Guitar Parts with Hybrid Picking Guitar Lessons From Andy Wood
In the first edition of ShapeShifter, Andy Wood showed us how to take the foundational harmonic and rhythmic knowhow that you already possess and apply it to fi...