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…
Can video game music really contribute to the death of guitar? You have to wonder how many kids (and adults) really wanna learn guitar, when the music they actually “like” is on all the games that they play? Isn’t it all that just electronic music? It really has nothing to Read more…
It’s a beautiful fall night. You are with a group of friends and/or family sitting around the bonfire. Life is good. Then someone grabs some guitar from somewhere and puts it in your hand and says “play a song!”. I must know a thousand songs, maybe more. But for some Read more…
One on one lessons are FAR, FAR better than going through life ONLY self-taught. I know, I have been there and let me tell you, my progress as a guitar player would have progressed much better having some kind of consistent instruction from someone who knows better. Too many of Read more…