Guitar picks can be like socks. Whatever happens to that other sock after we do the laundry? Drives me nuts. I sometimes think that they simply fall into a black hole, never to return until the end of time. I firmly believe that guitar picks have their own black hole Read more
Knowledge of barre chords can be one of your greatest assets as a guitar player That’s what I said last week. I wanted you to first look at how well you are playing the four basic shapes like this: From those four shapes you can play virtually any 7 and Read more
Knowledge of barre chords can be one of your greatest assets as a guitar player Barre chords also strike fear into many beginning and intermediate players Barre chords can help increase your “knowledge” of countless chords – some with some crazy names Here is a test: how quickly can you play Read more
See if this scenario sounds familiar: You pick up your guitar (or really ANY musical instrument) to either play something or practice something And then it hits: nothing interesting comes up. Or, maybe more accurate: nothing comes up at all You have been playing and/or practicing the same songs, scales, Read more
When we grab our guitars what is it that most of us want to do? Play songs! When it comes down to it, that is what all of us guitar players really want to do. Even when we want to just jam or “noodle around”, we are still playing (or Read more
When you are playing songs on guitar (or any instrument), you know you are in the moment when you put your whole self into it. Everything is really clicking. Moments like that are really awesome. But, there are also times when putting our whole self into it can be detrimental Read more
Music is poetry, poetry is music. The two go hand in hand in my view. They really are one in the same. Take limericks for example. How about this one: Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock; the clock struck one and down he run; hickory Read more