First-timers are anticipated to make several flaws but preferably are willing to correct them. You’ll also find guitar players who may have played for quite sometime who never get better since they’re used to bad guitar playing from the addictions they have formed over time. Don’t be taken in by these bad habits which will [...]

When approaching a new instrument like the guitar, many people question whether it is best to get a teacher or be self taught. If you want to teach yourself to play guitar, it is a good option especially with the beginner materials available on the market. Of course guitar teachers are not bad. They are [...]

One of the worst ways for a beginner guitarist to start learning the guitar is through printed, static material. The universal availability of these, however, makes them the starting place for most would be guitar players. What’s wrong with them? They provide no direct feedback, no corrective responses, unable to show correct technique, versus incorrect, [...]

Here we will talk about the technique by which the Chapman Stick and Mobius Megatar tapping basses are played, for the reason that this has an effect on how to record the sound you want to capture. We will then discuss your effects and your sound chain, so as to best bring out the sound [...]

One of the questions that most beginning guitar players ask is if they should even bother learning guitar scales. After all, so much of modern guitar is chord based, and unless you are the soloist, do you even need to spend time learning and practicing all of those boring scales? Well those boring scales are [...]

As a beginner you will probably quickly learn that the only way you are going to improve your guitar playing is if you have a dedicated focused practice time. During this practice time it’s a good idea to have exercises and drills that you work on to improve certain techniques like speed, picking, accuracy, finger [...]

Congratulations to any or all those rockers, blues, classic, jazz and other varieties of beginners guitar enthusiasts who have taken the road to begin guitar lessons, to experience better and more importantly of sound better. There are various of ways Beginner Guitar lessons are offered nowadays – from DVD’s to online, to books to instructors [...]

In this article we will discuss the technique by which Mobius Megatar and Chapman Stick touchstyle guitars are played, for the reason that this determines how you go about recording for best sound. We will then discuss your effects and your sound chain, so as to best get the desired sound on the recording. Finally [...]

When you watch good guitar players improv, you think that they must have just been naturally talented or were born with a special skill that you were not. The idea of doing what they do seems so far off if not impossible. Actually, there are skills that you can learn to get better at guitar [...]

When you actually get to look at the succession of chords in a song, it can be pretty intimidating when you see the inversions come up. Chord inversions are something that seems to be really intimidating for most beginner guitar players. And there are a lot of guitar players who just shrug off the learning [...]