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More “Blues with Brains” Lessons Available!

Posted in Guitars, tagged blues with brains, chuck d'aloia, guitar, guitar gear, guitar instruction, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians on May 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Guitar teacher and guitarist extraordinaire Chuck D’Aloia has just added some new material to his instructional video arsenal, and I have to say that again, Chuck has hit another couple of homers. The first video, “Modal Studies,” covers the 7 modes of the major scale, the melodic minor, lydian b7, alt and the diminished scale. [...]

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3 Highly Effective Exercises to Learn the Guitar Fretboard

Posted in guitar instruction, guitar lessons, tagged guitar instruction, guitar lessons, guitar lessons online on April 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »

When I first started learning guitar, I really wanted to be able to solo and improvise. I was told to do that I need to know my scales up and down the guitar neck. I especially heard of this scale called the “pentatonic” scale. Supposedly, if you knew this scale it was instant “money,” or [...]

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Newly Discovered II: Guitar Scale Magnets

Posted in Guitars, tagged GAS, gear, gear announcements, gear find, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitar instruction, guitar instructional aids, guitar scale magnets, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new gear on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Wow! Two days in a row, and yet another e-mail received from a reader, and yet another pretty cool idea. This time, it’s from Guitar Scale Magnets located in Houston, TX. These help players learn scales by attaching a magnetic strip to the bass side of the fretboard. The premise is that learning guitar is [...]

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Quirks are good… Quirks make you better…

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

Like many gear sluts, I’ve got several guitars and each guitar, no matter how much I’ve spent on it, has its own little quirk or quirks. One might not have much natural sustain, another might have tiny frets, yet another may have wide neck profile. But no matter the quirk, in the end, if I [...]

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Revelations in Playing the Blues

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar instruction, guitarists, Guitars, learn, Music, musicians on November 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been really getting into Chuck D’Aloia’s “Blues with Brains.” and I’ve extolled the matter-of-fact and easy way Chuck makes learning how to play the blues. With just a few sentences, he reveals some incredible things that I’ve inherently known, but could never really articulate or understand. The other day, [...]

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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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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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Greg Howe Is Getting Into the Skype Instruction Movement

Posted in guitar, guitar instruction, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, tagged greg howe, guitar, guitar instruction, guitar lessons, guitar lessons online, guitarists, instruction, Music, musicians on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Looks like guitar maestro Greg Howe is getting into the act and offering lessons via Skype. I wrote about guitar great Charles Sedlak doing it, but Greg Howe? Awesome. The price isn’t outrageous either: It costs $75 for a 1-hour lesson. That’s significantly more than what Charles charges, but hey! It’s Greg Howe! This lessons [...]

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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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