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Blues With Brains Journey Update

Posted in guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitar instruction, guitar lessons, guitarists, Guitars, improvisation, inspiration, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians, new song, tagged blues with brains, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitar lessons, guitar life, guitarists, Guitars, learn guitar, Music, musicians on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I purchased Chuck D’Aloia’s “Blues with Brains” series. After a month, I still haven’t moved past Volume 1, but that’s only because I’m going slowly and methodically with the process. Besides, the one thing that I found is that Chuck throws A LOT of stuff at you in a [...]

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Gettin’ In the Zone

Posted in amplifiers, amps, aracom amps, guitar, guitarists, Guitars, improvisation, inspiration, Music, musicians, performing, playing live, tagged amp, amplification, amplifiers, amps, aracom, aracom amps, guitar, guitar gear, guitar life, guitarists, improvisation, inspiration, Music, musicians, playing in the zone on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Ahhh… the venerable SRV in a classic guitarists pose. I used to think that was just something rock stars did for publicity shots, and that the poses were contrived. But then as I’ve delved more and more deeply into improvisation, I’ve realized it’s not contrived at all. That kind of pose or expression is all [...]

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Epiphany in Modal Scale Theory

Posted in guitar instruction, guitar theory, Guitars, improvisation, inspiration, instruction, learn guitar, modes, music theory, scales, tagged guitar, guitar instruction, guitar theory, guitarists, Guitars, improvisation, instruction, learn guitar, modal theory, modes, Music, music theory, musicians, scales, soloing on January 5, 2009 | 16 Comments »

Note: This isn’t going to be an instructional piece… just a sharing piece… mostly… I’ve been playing guitar for over 35 years, but it hasn’t been until the last couple of years – actually the last few months – that I’ve really started focusing on scales and modal theory. Chord theory I had down cold, [...]

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Insight: Playing Rhythm

Posted in guitar, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, improvisation, inspiration, musicians, performing, playing live, rock star, style, tagged guitar, guitarists, inspiration, making music, Music, musicians, performance, playing guitar, playing live on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In last month’s issue of Guitar Player, Steve Cropper was spotlighted. Cropper was a great session guitarist for Stax records who wrote and played with the likes Otis Redding, and was arguably one of the great guitarists responsible for establishing the 60′s era soul sound. In the interview, he was asked what advice he’d give [...]

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Calling all Guitar Teachers and Students!!!

Posted in buying gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar instruction, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, improvisation, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians, tagged chords, guitar, guitar instruction, guitar teacher, guitarists, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians, scales, tabs, teach, teaching guitar on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

One of GuitarGear.org’s readers recently plugged his guitar instructional site, Teach Wombat, in one of my articles about moving into a new chapter of my guitar life. I normally don’t like random product plugs, but being a teacher, I’m always looking for teaching aids and resources, so I checked out the site, and it definitely [...]

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Stumbling Upon Technique

Posted in guitar, guitarists, Guitars, improvisation, Music, musicians, recording, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, improvisation, Music, recording, soloing on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was reading several interesting threads about technique and improv the other day. I have to admit that I was quietly embarassed by the fact that I don’t have a large library of techniques that I can tap into while I read the posts and articles. There are so many things to learn with respect [...]

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