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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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Give Your Rhythm Parts a Boost with Partial Chord Shapes

Posted in gear, guitar instruction, guitar theory, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve spoken about him before, but Mark Wein of Mark Wein Guitar Lessons really knows his stuff, and I’ve gotten a lot mileage from his free video tutorials. One set of tutorials that I found as a real useful review, plus learning some new stuff as well, is his series on Partial Chord Shapes. Really [...]

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Why a Great Guitar Will KICK YOUR ASS!

Posted in GAS, gear, goldie, guitar, guitar gear, Guitars, learn guitar, Music, musicians, tagged GAS, gear, goldie, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians on September 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

…but it will also make you a better player! Pictured to the left is the very first Saint Guitar that I ever played. Even though she wasn’t mine, I nicknamed her “Baby Blue” and the name kind of stuck; she’s technically called the Faded Blue Jean Benchmark. But to me, she’ll always be Baby Blue [...]

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Got Lessons? Get ‘em at MarkWeinGuitarLessons.com!

Posted in guitar instruction, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, Music, music theory, musicians, tagged guitar, guitar instruction, guitar lessons, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, mark wein, markweinguitarlessons, Music, musicians on August 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I normally don’t write about instructional sites, mainly because they’re a dime a dozen, and most follow the same model of discussing theory, and providing scale diagrams that accompany the theory. Not that these aren’t helpful, but I tend to be the type of player that learns more effectively by actual example. So it was [...]

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Better Guitar Playing Through… HYPNOSIS?!!!

Posted in guitar, guitar instruction, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, inspiration, instruction, learn guitar, Music, music theory, musicians, tagged guitar, guitar gear, guitar hypnosis, guitarists, Guitars, hypnosis, learn guitar, Music, musicians on April 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I recently read a press release on Harmony Central where this company, Hypnobusters, has just released a self-hypnosis audio to improve your guitar playing. I snickered at first because when the word “hypnosis” is mentioned, my gut reaction is, “Yeah, right… just some more of that New Age crap…” But then again, over the years, [...]

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So You Wanna Be a Guitar Hero… Study Jeff Beck!

Posted in guitar, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, learn guitar, tagged guitar, guitar gods, guitar hero, guitarists, Guitars, jeff beck, learn guitar, Music, musicians on April 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Pick up one of the major guitar mags, and you might think that to be considered a “good” guitar player nowadays you have to be able to shred it up playing 64th notes up and down the fretboard non-stop. I know, that’s a bit of an exagerration, but the major mags’ focus on shred disenfranchises [...]

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Learn a Classic Peter Frampton Solo!

Posted in guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, learn guitar, Music, musicians, Saint Guitar Company, Saint Guitars Benchmark, V-Picks, tagged frampton comes alive, guitar, guitar instruction, guitar solo, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, peter frampton, saint guitars, V-Picks on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

My friend, Vinni Smith of V-Picks is an incredibly talented guitar player, and one of the things that has really sparked our friendship is our love of Peter Frampton’s music. It was hilarious to find out that his favorite guitar solo in the world is the middle lead break in the song “Do You Feel [...]

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The Beginner (and Master) Guitarist’s Guide to Playing Great

Posted in guitar, guitar instruction, guitar lifestyle, guitar theory, guitarists, Guitars, learn guitar, Music, music theory, musicians, tagged guitar, guitar greatness, guitar instruction, guitar life, guitar lifest, guitar lifestyle, guitar practice, learn, learn guitar, Music, musicians, teaching guitar on March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Ah, Padawan. Come to receive the wisdom of the ages, you have I see. Into the realms of guitar playing greatness delve deep do you wish; to play among the stars of guitar such as Vai, Satriani, Johnson and others of that ilk. Good for you! Welcome you with open arms, do I. Now dispensed [...]

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New Gear: VOX JamVOX Jam and Practice Tool

Posted in buying gear, GAS, gear, guitar, guitar instruction, guitarists, Guitars, jam, jam track, learn guitar, Music, musicians, vox, tagged GAS, gear, gear find, guitar, guitar gear, guitar practice, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, jam track, JamVOX, learn guitar, Music, musicians, new gear, practice, vox on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Even though I have some patterns and scales that I practice, I usually end up jamming to jam tracks that I either write myself or download. But I also like to jam to music from popular bands. The only problem with this is that the guitar parts are already printed, and it’s tough to jam [...]

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Learn Guitar in 3D!!!

Posted in guitar, guitar instruction, guitarists, Guitars, learn guitar, tagged guitar, guitar instruction, guitarists, instruction, learn guitar on January 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »

There’s a new site called “I Perform 3D.” Check it out! It’s a trip! http://www.iperform3d.com/. Don’t know if I’d join, but I’ve never seen anything quite like it! Here’s a video:

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