Before you take another lesson, here are the seven things that your guitar teacher has never told you (that you need to know).
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Before you take another lesson, here are the seven things that your guitar teacher has never told you (that you need to know).
Helping guitar teachers understand the psychology behind achieving success in their guitar teaching businesses.
Mike Campese gives you a nice sweep picking arpeggio workout using the chord progression from Pachelbel`s Canon in D.
Do you feel like you are at a dead end with your guitar playing? Here are five killer ways that will totally change the way you play your acoustic guitar from now on,
Dealing with blues songs featuring incredibly complicated chord changes can be easier than you think.
Reach your full potential and become part of the small percentage of highly successful guitar teachers.
The key to playing killer guitar phrases is focusing on how you play - not necessarily which notes you use.
To make your lead guitar playing sound great, you must understand how to play every single note in your licks with as much expression as possible.
Mike Campese delivers a fistful of single string triad arpeggios - major, minor and diminished.
Here are 11 common guitar teaching mistakes that less experienced teachers make.
UK guitarist Sam Russell has some cool ways to spice up both open chords and standard chords with modal notes.
Learn how to develop great rhythm and time with your playing.
Read on for seven advantages and benefits of being a six-stringer.
Simple music is about balance. It is about taking 1 to 2 musical ideas, weaving them together and manipulating the musical elements just right.
Tom Hess identifies the five keys required for becoming a truly great guitar player.
Musicians who build and sustain successful music careers utilize an entirely different set of skills, thought processes and values.
Two Reasons Why You Have A Hard Time Expressing Maximum Emotion In Your Guitar Playing
Before you will become a highly successful professional musician, you need to get rid of several false beliefs that will cause you to fail in your music career.
Mike Campese puts both hands on the fretboard to deliver more triad arpeggios.
Without a strong sense of melody and phrasing your music will never have that magical sense of wonder.
Stay alive. Stay sane. Stay healthy. There are methods to achieving compositional greatness that do not involved personal pain.
UK guitarist Sam Russell shares his personal methods on finding the inspiration to be creative musically and lyrically.
Awesome tools, tricks and techniques that you can use again and again to create your own killer sounding, unplugged acoustic guitar song.
If your guitar heroes use a lot of "wrong" notes and make them sound "right" (and you can`t), here`s how to do it.
Reynaert takes you on a journey through the possibilities of blues rhythm guitar playing.
Maximizing your on-stage guitar tone so that you can make every gig an enjoyable experience.
A guided tour of the 2015 album by the Scott Allen Project.
Build incredible amounts of musical tension by combining sweep picking technique with creative guitar phrasing ideas.
You must master the ability to play with both speed and creativity in order to make your licks stand out.
Comparing the opposing mindsets of successful and unsuccessful musicians.
Mike Campese covers the flat keys moving around the circle of fourths.
Learn the differences between guitar teaching business `myths` and `reality`.
Without a strong sense of melody and phrasing your music will never have that magical sense of wonder.
In order to be a great guitar player you must develop mastery over the fretboard.
Do you feel like you are at a dead end with your guitar playing? Here are three additional killer ways that will totally change the way you play your acoustic guitar from now on,
If you are wondering how modern metal players use all these "wrong" notes and still sound great - here`s how.
The majority of guitar players unconsciously ruin their potential for improvement by learning `too fast` in some areas of their playing and `too slow` in other areas.
Look deeper, and find the overlooked value that makes John Petrucci a much greater guitarist than other players.
Tom Hess takes you through the exact steps needed for cleaning up unwanted string noise in your blues guitar licks.
Most likely, your lack of progress is the result of years of bad playing habits. Let`s correct those habits.
Mike Campese will help master your triads in all 12 keys, focusing on the sharp keys for the major triads.
Chords have the potential to bring a whole new element to your soloing providing cool, unique, and contrasting textures amongst the single note lines you play.