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Being in the Right Space and Time

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians on July 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I was reading an editorial in the latest Premier Guitar issue, where the author talked about providing plenty of “space” in your playing; that is, part of what makes a great song is what you don’t play. The premise is that it’s so easy to play a bunch of notes to the point where your [...]

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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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Thinking Small: On Tweaking

Posted in Guitars, tagged GAS, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, Music, musicians on April 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »

A few years ago, Mel Gibson starred in a movie called “The Patriot” in which he was a self-avowed pacifist who was pulled into the Revolutionary War to avenge the murder of his son by a British colonel, played by Jason Isaacs. In one scene where he and two of his young sons are ambushing [...]

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Introducing: Brett McQueen

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitar pedals, Guitars, instruction, Music, musicians on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Writing GuitarGear.org has always been a labor of love for me. When I first started the blog, I didn’t know how well it would do at all; in fact, I didn’t even envision it to be widely read. I put what I wrote out there and just shared it; first with just a small group [...]

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Gear Review: Guitar Scale Magnets – Major Scale

Posted in Guitars, tagged GAS, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitar scale magnets, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, modal theory, Music, musicians, new gear on February 15, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Click on the picture to see the magnets. Guitar Scale Magnets – Major Scale Strips Summary: Great “cheat sheet” for learning where the various major scale modes start on the fretboard. Very convenient, and very easy to install! Pros: Magnetic base strip attaches easily to the side of your fretboard. The strips provide a superb [...]

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Playing in the “Zone”

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians on January 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Though I’m quite a bit out of shape to play nowadays, I’ve always had a love for the game of tennis; especially watching the tennis greats over the years, and thoroughly enjoying the pure artistry in their playing. Having played a bit of competitive tennis myself – albeit, nowhere the level of my tennis idols [...]

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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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The Best $40 You’ll Ever Spend

Posted in guitar instruction, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, Music, music theory, musicians, tagged guitar, guitar gear, guitar life, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians on October 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been on this blues thing lately with my music; not going all out with the blues, but definitely having a huge blues influence on the music I write. But one thing that I was sure of was that I didn’t want to just learn blues licks – the same licks practically everyone plays. I [...]

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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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