If you play the guitar, an unfortunate fact of life is that you will have to replace your strings on a fairly regular basis for one reason or another. You should always have a set or two of extra strings in case they are needed. If your strings are old and one breaks, you should [...]

As a guitarist you may be faced with a chord progression that looks like this: Bb Gm Eb F Bb Gm Eb F F Ab Eb F This may have come about either by having to transpose a song, or because this was simply the original key. If you are an acoustic guitar player, you [...]

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 [...]

Last time I talked about looking the part with good equipment to come across professionally, and ways to get up to speed on your singing. This week, I’m going to share some simple but often ignored pieces of information that can really push the impression you make from just a guitar player, to a fully [...]

PART 1 of 2 You spend five hours a day playing your guitar. You run your scales, master your legato, your two hand tapping would make EVH blush. So why is it that every time you see a band playing at a bar with a guitarist with only a smidgen of your technical ability he [...]

This article is about how to avoid guitar practice burnout – something that happens to all of us from time to time! Yep it’s true. Many of us at one time or another has experienced those “blah” days where the last thing we want to do is pick up our guitar and practice. But don’t [...]

In the event you actually want to learn to play songs on guitar, there are really only a couple of choices. Yow will discover a local instructor or buy a variety of books on the topic, or take an internet guitar course. As a guitarist, I strongly recommend taking a web-based guitar course. A neighborhood [...]

In case you have heard guitar tapping, you may ponder how a guitar player is actively playing so quickly. In case you have ever before seen guitar tapping, it is marvelous. Even though it’s an advanced guitar tactic, you can study it and start incorporating this technique into your play and practice. Tapping usually named [...]

Easy guitar lessons will help you understand music. You will learn the various symbols, notes and rests, in the music system. Knowing how to read notes will help you learn to play more songs in the future. The next thing that you will learn will be how to play the notes, then the chord patterns [...]

Why should a guitarist use an open tuning? Most guitarists never experiment with open tunings, which is shame, because there’s a whole new world out there awaiting those guitarists who are bold enough to invest a small amount of their time. Open G Tuning is my favourite, partly because the Rolling Stones have used it [...]