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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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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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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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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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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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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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