Crafting Sonic Masterpieces: Rock Songwriting for Guitar
Rock music is a powerful and passionate songwriting genre that has captured the hearts of music enthusiasts for generations. At the heart of many iconic rock an...
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5 Free Songwriter Sideman Licks From Adam Levy
If you play in a singer / songwriter's ensemble, you are one of two things: the singer or an auxiliary player. If your ensemble is a duo, and you are not the si...
7 Songwriting Guitar Lessons With Robbie Calvo
Writing a song may feel like an insurmountable feat to anyone who has never tried. Where does one begin when writing a song? If you have a song idea, how do you...
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...
Perfect Your Performance Techniques With These 9 Acoustic Guitar Lessons From Clive Carroll
When learning to play the guitar, there are many paths one can take. One of these is learning to play the acoustic guitar. Composing and performing music on the...
Elevate Your Songwriting Skills With These 6 Acoustic Guitar Intro Lessons
It may seem like it goes without saying, but this can be easy to forget: one of the most essential parts of a song is it's intro. A strong intro captivates your...
Ellis Paul’s Song Idea Generator
Master songwriter Ellis Paul is in the TrueFire Studio today shooting his first course with us on songwriting, and shared with us his "Song Idea Generator." Che...
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...
The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is Now Taking Submissions
If you consider yourself a songwriter, now is your chance to enter what the New York Times calls “the songwriting competition to take note of,” and for a chance...
Robert Johnson On Speed?
By Steve "Red" Lasner Much controversy has arisen about whether or not the recordings of Robert Johnson we have been listening to for years were speed altere...
3 Questions: Richie Kotzen
by Charlie Doom initially found fame at the age of 21 in the hard rock band, Poison. Kotzen's creative and technical command of almost every musical genre ...
Guitabulary: Joni Mitchell Opens Up
Just a few weeks ago the LA Times ran a piece on Joni Mitchell, who was interviewed side by side with the guy who has been performing an all-Joni tribute in dra...