Step Up Your Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Playing With These 3 Lessons From Sean McGowan
Swapping out a guitar pick for our fingers opens the door to one of the most organic and rewarding ways to play guitar -- especially when it comes to jazz! P...
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Take Your Lead Guitar Playing To The Next Level With These 2 Electric Guitar Lessons With Ariel Posen
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
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...
Expand Your Lick Vocabulary and Hone Your Rock Guitar Soloing with These 7 Free Lessons from Corey Congilio
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,...
5 Tips for Reducing Fingertip Pain When Learning Guitar
Learning to play guitar sometimes means dealing with fingertip pain, at least until your hands adapt to the sensation of the strings and frets. After building u...
7 Secrets to Learning Jazz Guitar
By Bruce Arnold To learn more from the professor of jazz, Bruce Arnold, check out his TrueFire courses: Total Modal and Jazz Guitar for Beginners. The cel...
The Clinical Condition
by Debra For most guitarists, playing face-to-face with a musician you worship is the stuff of daydreams. But what if someone gave you the opportunity t...
“Diddie Wa Diddie” Guitar Lesson
More than 60 years after its recording, Blind Blake’s rambunctious “Diddie Wa Diddie”--a double-entendre ragtime-blues--still stands as a fingerpicking classic....
Arpeggios – Crucial or What?
by Steve Elliott, Acoustic Guitar Workshop In this guitar lesson, we are looking at arpeggios from a fingerstyle point of view and how to play them smoothly ...
7 Guitar Legends: How To Play Like Them and Still Sound Like Yourself
by Zach Wendkos "Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."
- Chuck Palahniuk Sure, we all want to be unique. We ...
Brutal Legend: Your New (Old) Favorite Guitar Hero
by Charlie Doom We Don't Play Video Games. No, really... Remember that video game called Guitar Hero, with its crappy plastic guitar that you feared for b...
Blues Genealogy: “Statesboro Blues”
by David Hamburger Click here for the tab file. There are really two “Statesboro Blues” (blueses?). There’s the song as originally conceived and recor...