ShareHere is a great article that I found over at GuitarTricks.com that discusses what originality is and how you can learn to be expressive and creative with your guitar playing. Commercial break: This article may contain affiliate links in which we are sometimes awarded commissions on the sales of products and services featured within. We [...]
ShareAll you metal players know that having a high level of endurance in your picking hand is key to heavy metal guitar playing. Look at some of the masters such as James Hetfield, Kerry King and Dave Mustaine. They can all down pick at lightning speed and do it for hours. Here is a great [...]
ShareBarre chords seem to be one of the biggest challenges for guitar players but once you understand the secrets to playing them, it unlocks a whole new world of playing for you. It takes a lot of time and effort to master this particular technique. And if you’re new to playing the guitar, it will [...]
ShareMost of us start playing the guitar because we want to learn how to play our favorite songs. But without the proper technique and skills within our fingers, learning your favorite songs can be frustrating. When you are practicing the guitar, be sure to spend some time on working finger exercises and technique drills. By [...]
Here is a great article that I found over at GuitarTricks.com that discusses what originality is and how you can learn to be expressive and creative with your guitar playing.
Commercial break: This article may contain affiliate links in which we are sometimes awarded commissions on the sales of products and services featured within. We test each product thoroughly and recommend only what we believe to be the very best. On to our program…
How many guitarists can you name who you consider to be truly original and innovative? No doubt you can come up with a few dozen, but consider for a moment how grossly disproportionate that number is to the number of guitarists out there. This raises the question of whether it’s really that difficult to be original. Have all the good chord progressions, melodies, riffs and licks already been written? Do we stand a chance of saying something new with our music, or are we doomed ad infinitum to recycle old material and lift the sounds and styles of the legendary guitarists who have come before us? Read more
All you metal players know that having a high level of endurance in your picking hand is key to heavy metal guitar playing. Look at some of the masters such as James Hetfield, Kerry King and Dave Mustaine. They can all down pick at lightning speed and do it for hours.
Here is a great video lesson from JamPlay.com on an exercise you can incorporate in to your playing to help build up your speed and endurance so you can down pick the masters of metal!
Be sure to check out my article Battle of the Metal Guitar Courses for a review of my favorite guitar instruction for learning to play heavy metal on the guitar.
Barre chords seem to be one of the biggest challenges for guitar players but once you understand the secrets to playing them, it unlocks a whole new world of playing for you.
It takes a lot of time and effort to master this particular technique. And if you’re new to playing the guitar, it will also probably hurt your fingers and frustrate you to no end if you can’t get those barre chords sounding right the first few times you play them. You will encounter a lot of problems as you try to tackle learning barre chords, but don’t worry, because there are remedies to these problems. Read on and learn more. Read more
Most of us start playing the guitar because we want to learn how to play our favorite songs. But without the proper technique and skills within our fingers, learning your favorite songs can be frustrating. When you are practicing the guitar, be sure to spend some time on working finger exercises and technique drills. By training your fingers to effortlessly perform common movements, you will be able to make larger strides in your guitar playing faster.
The problem with exercises or “drills” is that they get boring and repetitive. I give my students exercises to mix in with their song practice but the problem I found was that they wouldn’t do them. I came across an awesome program called Finger Trainer from Shred Academy. This program features real drums, and real guitar. You are able to play along with the example and feel like you are in a real band setting. Once I set my students up with this, their skills improved dramatically!
Finger Trainer has Bending exercises, Alternate Picking, String Skipping,Legato, Tapping, perhaps the most difficult and desired technique of all - Sweep Picking, and something that most teaching neglects - Combinations of multiple techniques so you can learn to apply them in real life away from the training ground. They even include a lesson manual which explains what every technique is, and how to do it!
It is important as a new guitar player to begin working on key exercises that you will be able to use in every song that you learn to play.
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This one has been out there for a while but those of you that may be new to blues guitar or soloing, it’s an awesome example of how you dont need a ton of notes or flash to play a great blues solo. Soloing especially in the Blues genre is so much about the nuances and feel. Not how many notes you can cram in in 60 seconds.
Griff Hamlin who is the creator of one of my favorite Blues courses- Playing Through the Blues, put together an awesome lesson called the 4 Note Solo. Read more
GuitarTricks.com recently added a new guitar instructor- Sharon Aguilar to their rock guitar lessons section.
The gorgeous and talented Sharon is an accomplished and acclaimed guitarist who studied at Musician’s Institute and has gone on to play on numerous top television shows and tour worldwide with Cee Lo Green. Sharon’s first lessons will look at Trill technique, plus some great popular songs!
GuitarTricks just put out a free lesson featuring Sharon teaching trill techniques.
Check out the other lessons Sharon has as well as all of the other great guitar instructors featured on GuitarTricks.com. They even have a 14 day free trial so you can test drive the entire site risk free.
Click below for the trill lesson
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As I mentioned in an eariler post, Marty Schwartz has reopened his Guitar Coaching Club for a limited time.
If you havent checked it out already, be sure to do so as the sale ends tomorrow- Friday 5/10 at midnight PST.
This is the ultimate bundle of guitar lessons. It is everything that Marty has released.
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Using these DVDs along with lifetime online access to more than 1,000 tutorials is quite simply the best way I know to get better ….WAY better….on guitar.
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JamPlay is running a cool contest where you can win a George Lynch signature ESP LTD. In addition they are giving away memberships to the JamPlay site.
Click here to learn more and enter the contest- JamPlay Guitar Giveaway
Often cheaper than a new guitar and just as ready to rock out, a secondhand guitar could be the perfect addition to your collection or the perfect thing to start you off, but how do you know that your potential purchase isn’t a potential dud?
The truth is that some fantastic guitars, while expensive when new, are relatively cheap secondhand. Sometimes you can find a custom or a limited edition guitar that someone is selling quickly for the cash and you can often get a real bargain if you know what you are looking for.
It really pays to do the research before thinking about buying a second hand guitar though as some sellers will push their price up to cash in, especially if they know they are selling to a beginner who may not know much about guitars.
So, as a beginner who may not know much about guitars, what should you look for when inspecting a secondhand guitar? Let’s just say that you have found a secondhand guitar in the musical instrument section of the weekly classifieds and you are quite interested to go and take a look at it. Here is a list of hints that will help you when inspecting the guitar and talking to the seller: Read more
If you remember my post last week about the huge DVD sale that Marty Schwartz of GuitarJamz was having, then you wont believe it but Marty is doing another huge promotion.
He has reopened his Guitar Coaching Club for a limited time. What is the GuitarJamz Guitar Coaching Club you ask?
It is basically the GuitarJamz MEGA bundle.
“The Guitar Coaching Club” Includes Lifetime Site Membership, 60 Guitar lesson DVD’s,Lifetime Delivery of Marty’s Newest DVD’s, Bonus Jamtrack CD’s, 6 Bonus Guitar Ebooks, Plus Member’s Only Access to his Exclusive Guitar Forum
It doesnt get any better than this!
If you missed out on last week’s sale, you definitely dont want to miss this.
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Check out the new course from Steve Stine- CAGED Made Simple.
FREE 5 video mini course. Click the image-
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Successful private guitar instructor, Youtube sensation and all around nice guy, Marty Schwartz shows you how to master the blues
Looking for some awesome online guitar lessons? Check out GuitarMasterClass.net They have over 2,000 guitar lessons covering every topic you could imagine.
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Learn some of the hottest licks and master the art of improvising your own solos. Check out the popular DVD course 96 Rock Licks taught by acclaimed instructor Steve Stine. Click here to watch preview lessons and download free tab.
Check out the new site- SteveStine.com. Steve Stine, professor of modern guitar studies at NDSU has partnered with GuitarZoom.com to bring us some of the best guitar instruction programs in the last couple of years such as 96 Rock Licks, SoloFire and Music Theory Made Easy.
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...Then check out the follow up course to 96 Rock Licks, SoloFire. Set your lead playing on fire and master the art of improvising. Instructor Steve Stine takes a practical and useful approach at teaching you the most popular scales, tricks and techniques to set your lead playing on fire. Click here to learn more.
Take your lead playing to levels you never thought possible and master the note choices that legends such as Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Slash, Zakk Wylde and Kirk Hammett have dedicated their careers to. Click Here
Are you a guitar teacher or are interested in starting a guitar teaching business? Check out StartTeachingGuitar.com where Donnie Schexnayder, guitar teacher and business coach, provides the resources for you to start and maintain a successful guitar teaching business. Be sure to check out the Six String Madness feature on StartTeachingGuitar.com as well.
