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Take Your Lead Guitar Playing To The Next Level With These 2 Electric Guitar Lessons With Ariel Posen

December 17, 2019

The art of creating a tantalizing guitar solo is not solely about scales, arpeggios, or technical skills on the fretboard. Of course, these are all important to...

Learn About The History Of The Blues With These 2 Essential Guitar Song Lessons

December 17, 2019

Built primarily on blues music, Gospel is a relatively modern style originating in the ‘30s developing from a the influence of spirituals and hymns. In this edi...

Learn How to Practice Jazz Guitar Songs with These 5 Free Lessons from Mimi Fox

December 12, 2019

The most frequently asked questions our educators get are, “How and what should I practice to improve as a player?” and “What is the best approach for learning ...

Expand Your Lick Vocabulary and Hone Your Rock Guitar Soloing with These 7 Free Lessons from Corey Congilio

December 11, 2019

Whether you’re writing out a solo or improvising one, you’re connecting a series of musical ideas to express yourself. In his Jam Craft edition of Solo Factory,...

7 Tips to Help You Master Sight-Reading for Guitar

September 29, 2019

At some point, every serious guitar player needs to master sight-reading if they want to call themselves a true working musician. Whether it’s sight-reading new...

10 Best Blues Guitar Licks (Vol. 1)

September 12, 2019

This new video guitar lesson series features some of the best guitar licks in the TrueFire library as voted on by our community. In this volume, we're featuring...

Learn to Craft Your Own Scales and Arpeggios with 3 Free Rock Soloing Guitar Lessons

January 2, 2019

It’s not uncommon for us, as guitarists, to feel limited by our vocabulary of basic jazz scales and arpeggios. Sometimes, the colors and emotions we want to exp...

10 Lessons My Dad Taught Me About Learning How to Play Guitar

June 13, 2018

I’ve learned several great lessons from my Dad, many of them about life in general, the value of hard work, or even the proper way to hold a baseball bat or how...

Learn How to Play Bill Kirchen’s “Hot Rod Lincoln” Lick Plus 4 More Inspired Riffs

May 31, 2018

Who doesn’t love the honky-tonk sound with pure, blood and guts country roots? Check out these free online guitar lessons from Bill Kirchen's 30 Hot Rod Guitar ...

10 More New Year’s Resolutions for Guitar Players

January 4, 2018

With 2018 having just begun, and because robots haven’t taken over the world just yet, it’s a safe time to start planning your New Year’s resolutions. There’s a...

7 New Year’s Resolutions Guaranteed to Make You a Better Guitarist

January 3, 2018

by Jeff Scheetz, TrueFire's Director of Education Want to bust out of that rut this year? Check out the advice below, and be sure to join TrueFire for free t...

6 Blues Americana Guitar Licks You MUST Know

May 26, 2017

These blues Americana guitar licks are from Mike Zito's 30 Blues Americana Licks You MUST Knowcourse which infuses the styles of Country, Blues, and Rock'n'Roll...

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