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A few do’s and don’ts that can make your life a lot easier.
Being in optimal health imay help you fuel your guitar practice.
Make your practice more fun with these three practice games.
Get started with Vai, Episodes One [Getting Started] and Two [Technique].
You want speed. I want speed. Everybody wants speed.
The official music video for her song "Lavender Mountains".
An instrumental shred version of the Dire Straits track "Sultans Of Swing".
How to skyrocket your pentatonic speed from 0 to 100 in just minutes.
Being in tune, playing in time, and having good technique is really important.
Just enjoy the process, and the results will come.
Learn a few things that can benefit every beginner guitarist.
Nearly 100 jam tracks featuring original content from the world’s greatest technical players.
Advantages/disadvantages of big hands/small hands.
A physical exercise routine designed to help you build strength and speed.
Boldly go where you as a guitar player have never gone before.
Some ways to build (or rebuild) good guitar-playing habits.
Barre chords - they can be tricky to learn!
Some things I wish I knew during my first year of playing guitar.
Letting notes ring can do wonders for your compositions.
If you are a Western musician, this is probably going to sound 'new' to you.
Installing new pickups on the guitar is the most common upgrade one can make.
Hell's Bells! You can make music with it.
Installing new pickups on the guitar is the most common upgrade one can make.
We have an interesting situation here regarding the augmented scale.
Don't learn guitar from YouTube! Yes, there is a video.
The Minor Add9 arpeggio has more uses than you imagine.
Bonamassa's vibrato, his creative bends, and a handful of sweet licks.
The answer will probably surprise most readers.
And... learn from Tommaso why this matters.
Become a better improviser by learning new licks.
Embracing the cliche' and trying to make it better.
Upgrade your current guitar with better hardware or opt for a shiny brand new one?
Is there such a thing as the 'most emotional note' in a key?
Specific points that will help you, in order to get better on both instruments.
The B diminished chord is objectively harder to use than the other major and minor chords.
An instrumental shred version of the Iron Maiden track "Fear Of The Dark".
Voice leading: unlocking the very DNA of musical structure and showing how it lives.
An introduction to the riffs and chords from the Carlos Santana song "Smooth", off of "Supernatural".
There are techniques to make the same simple chord progression sound differently.
The Neapolitan Major Scale is, in fact, a minor scale, but don't spread that around.
Alien surfer and guitar instructor Joe Satriani discusses melody, specifically, how to stretch out a melody.
This movement is by far one of the most common 'blind spots' that guitar players have.