7 Things They Didn’t Tell Me When I Started Playing Guitar
by Rich Maloof 1. There will never be enough guitars
They never told me, when I bought my first really good guitar, that other guitars would move me in a co...
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7 Tips for Working with Substitute Musicians
by Rich Tozzoli Back in school, a substitute teacher usually meant you had a do-nothing day ahead. But if you’re a musician who needs someone to substitute f...
7 Tips for Writing Great Guitar Songs
Writing songs on guitar can be easy. Writing great songs on guitar can be nigh impossible. We asked veteran songwriter, recording artist, and guitar maestro, Ma...
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Clapton Isolated Guitar
by Rich Maloof with hat tips to Bobby Owsinski and Rich Tozzoli Here's an absolute gem. It's Eric Clapton's isolated guitar track from George Harrison's "Whi...
Fireside Chat: Larry Carlton
It stands as no reminder that a guitar is made of wood, glue and metal. It is not a living thing. But when the 18-time Grammy nominated legend of guitar, Larry ...
This 81-Year-Old Guitar Player Will Make Your Jaw Drop
Watch this video of 81-year-old Bob Wood blow everyone's mind after he walked into a local music shop and picked up a guitar. Thankfully, there was someone t...
Guitar Player, Only 16, Shreds Jason Becker Impressively
16-year-old guitar phenom Tina S., who hails from France, released her latest video on YouTube on Friday, September 4th in which she shreds Jason Becker's song ...
Guitar Players’ Brains are Especially Intuitive, According to Science
Playing the guitar requires hand-eye coordination, creativity, memory, intuition, improvisation, and countless other functions of the brain. Anyone who has ever...
Classic Stevie Ray Vaughan Interview & Guitar Lesson
In this classic video, Stevie Ray Vaughan shows how he plays 3 of his tunes - "Hideaway", "Rude Mood", and "Superstition" - after a quick sit-down interview wit...
10 Up-and-Coming Guitar Players You Must Know
Discovering a musician on the rise is always exciting. Not only is it great to add music to your playlist, but you also get to say things like, “I knew them whe...
There Are Many Ways to Make Music with a Guitar
Check out this brilliant cover of "Passionflower" (originally by Jon Gomm) by Alexis Hadefi to see his creative use of the guitar - a multi-faceted instrument i...
1951 Fender Advertisement for Their New “Telecaster” Guitar
The "Telecaster" guitar would became one of the first really successful solid bodied electric guitars. The advert points out a lot of the groundbreaking featu...