Flying with a Guitar: 7 Essential Tips for Keeping Your Instrument Safe
Flying with a guitar isn't as simple as it used to be. The dynamics and expenses of airplane travel have changed significantly, making it more challenging to ke...
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10 Tips for Improving Your Guitar Playing Skills
Learning to play the guitar can be challenging at times, but there are several things you can do to overcome common obstacles and keep making progress. Some tip...
7 New Year’s Resolutions Guaranteed to Make You a Better Guitarist
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...
7 Tips from a Professional Guitar Player to Those Starting Out or Looking Up
One of our favorite places to hang on the web with other guitar players is /r/guitar, or the subreddit for Guitar over at Reddit. It's a place to interact with,...
Music Shop Tips and Etiquette
Whether you shop at a place like Andy’s Music in Chicago, Corner Music in Nashville, or a Guitar Center in your hometown, it’s good to know the best ways to sho...
Breaking Out Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Playing Live
Lights Up It’s go time. You crank up the amp and start rocking out that ballad you’ve been working on for weeks. You hit every note, and pluck every string j...
The 3 R’s to Getting On-Stage at a Jam
by Jeff Scheetz, TrueFire's Director of Education Do you want to get up onstage and play? The answer should be a resounding YES! "But wait," you say, "I'm no...
3 Priceless Intermediate Guitar Tips
These tips are from of Reddit user “YourRealName” and were posted to the r/Guitar sub-forum, which we highly recommend for any forum-loving guitar players out t...