How to Practice Guitar with Backing Tracks
Backing tracks give you great musical loops to practice with. They train your ear, build your sense of groove, and sharpen your soloing, melodic improvisation and rhythm playing.
7 Tips for Buying a Guitar for Your Child
If your child wants to learn guitar there are several steps you can take to help ensure their success. First, find a quality teacher, one who has the education, training, and passion for teaching to inspire your child and guide them skillfully to mastery of their...
The Simple Way to Create Exotic Guitar Chords
The Trick Cool trick that's embedded in the nature of guitar: wringing exotic new sounds from shopworn guitar chords. It's simple to accomplish and opens the gates to new sonic worlds. It's a songwriter's paradise, and you don't have to learn any new chord shapes to...
4 Tricks to Jumpstart Your Songwriting
Sometimes a song writes itself. Other times songwriting is painstaking and you come up empty handed. One key to successful songwriting is simply persistence.
The Secret to Gaining Guitar Practice Momentum
Newton’s first law of motion applies to guitar practice too: an object in motion stays in motion. Once you have momentum, it takes real force to stop it.
The Easy Way To Perfect Guitar Chord Changes
Learning basic open chords is a fun, important early step in every guitar player’s journey. But two issues get in the way: unintentional string muting and the timing of chord changes.
Focus on Flow when you Play Guitar
Flow Flow is defined as “the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.” (Thanks Wikipedia.) When you're in flow, your body and...
How to Master Advanced Alternate Picking on Guitar
An exercise to help you master alternate picking combined with string crossings, so you can use it to play any melody or lick.
A Simple Way to Start Alternate Picking on Guitar
Mastering alternate picking is one way to develop fluidity and ease when playing melodies and arpeggios. Here’s an exercise to introduce it on one string at a time.
Play 12 Bar Blues on Guitar: part 2
In our first lesson on the blues, we learned in 6 steps the 12 bar blues form, the chords involved, and how to play rhythm guitar through the form. Beginning with step 7 below we’ll move on to lead guitar playing. 7) Learn the Blues Scale If you know the minor...
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