Start Crafting Your Own Tunes With These 5 Songwriting Guitar Lessons From Ellis Paul
Whether it's your first song, or your hundredth, one thing remains true: you can write it. In fact, anyone can write a song! The process required to craft a son...
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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 ...
Blues Chronicles #16: Mississippi John Hurt – Guitar History Lesson – Reverend Robert Jones
On Episode 16 of Blues Chronicles, we learn about an important figure in Rev. Robert Jones' music career: Mississippi John Hurt. According to Rev. Jones, the fi...
10 Kentucky Backcountry Blues Guitar Lessons With Greg Martin
Blues music, having diffused into all parts of the world, comes in many shapes in forms. Thus, many places have they own adaptations of this American style. Ken...
3 Jazz Chord Tone Soloing Guitar Lessons With Frank Vignola
Improvising in a jazz context can be a daunting skill to grapple with. But, one of the keys to improving this skill is intentionally targeting, or resolving to ...
3 Swamp Blues Guitar Lessons With Mike Zito
The "Excello" sound, or as we call it, "Swamp Blues," is a unique combination of sounds. It is an adaptation of Luisiana-style blues, but adds elements of Cajun...
Rock Down On Your Rhythm Chops With These 8 Rockabilly Guitar Lessons
Rockabilly is a style born in the USA. And, like many other American genres, it pulls influence from a multitude of other styles. Country, Appalachia, and blues...
14 Modern Mississippi Slide Guitar Lessons With Luther Dickinson
As guitar players, it's often that we want to add new techniques to our playing and repertoire. Fingerpicking, slide guitar, open tunings are all common techniq...
Take A Page From The Jazz Greats With These 6 Guitar Lessons From Henry Johnson
Throughout the 1960's, we saw the rise of great jazz guitar players such as Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Howard Johnson, and George Benson. They ...
Freshen Up Your Funk Chops With These 4 Guitar Soloing Lessons
If you're learning how to play funk guitar, there are different levels of growth that will happen along the way. Learning licks, and learning the fundamentals i...
Hone Your Harmonic Vocabulary With These 4 Blues Soloing Guitar Lessons
It is fair to say that many blues guitar players feel comfortable staying inside the blues box. Sometimes, however, if you are a blues player, you might find yo...
Expand Your Improvisation Options With These 10 Jazz Guitar Lessons From Tim Lerch
Imagine this: as a jazz guitarist you are accompanying a vocalist as part of a duo. Now, you've finished playing the theme and it's your time to improvise. How ...