Guitar scales are used by guitar players for a variety of reasons. They can be used to learn where the notes are on the neck of the guitar, used for song composition, and used just to strengthen your fingers. No matter how you use scales in your guitar playing, there’s no denying how important scales
Tablature is the best invention for guitarists since sliced bread. Well, sliced bread wasn’t invented for guitarists, and tab wasn’t just invented for guitar players. Tab has been around for a very long time and was created for string players in general, although these days it is most associated with guitar players. Tab is a
The blues dates back to the early 20th century and conjures in my mind an old black man sitting on a porch with an acoustic in his hand and a harmonica around his neck, singing about a broken heart and all the losses he’s suffered through. While this is an image easily associated with the
I’ve heard the phrase that nothing in life is free. That’s not always the case. The Internet is full of free stuff for guitar players. When I was learning, long before there was an Internet, I had to hope there was sheet music available for a song I wanted to learn, or I had to
Acoustic guitar playing is one of the purest forms of guitar playing. With an electric guitar, you have volume and guitar effects that can help process what you play or give it a different sound. With an acoustic, there’s nothing to come between you and what you play. For this reason, a lot of beginning
The old saying goes, if you play bass guitar, you’ll always work. That’s because there are a lot of guitar players. Everybody wants to be the guitar player. The guitar player gets the girls, the bass player gets the work. That’s not always the case, but there are a lot of guitar players out there,
As much as it pains me to say, James Hetfield is probably the best metal rhythm guitarist of all-time, and if you’re in the mood for some four-on-the-floor, 8th-note triplet chugging, look no further than the first three or four Metallica records. In my opinion, having slogged through a version of “Battery” or two in
One of the greatest slide guitar performances of all-time also happens on one of the most unappreciated and misappropriated songs of all-time: “Memo From Turner”, a solo record by Mick Jagger, featuring the slide guitar by Ry Cooder, from the soundtrack of Performance (1970), in which Jagger played the leading role of Turner, a reclusive
Welcome back! Today I wanna show you an electric guitar riff. Electric guitar riffs are the most fun thing to play on guitar. When we guitarists compose a song we most likely start off with a riff and build the song around it. One of my favorite eras for guitar riffs is the 80’s. The
Welcome back! Today I wanna teach you some awesome lines that will go sound great over any bluegrass rhythm guitar. Bluegrass is just such a cool genre to shred to. I don’t think there is any other technique for guitar that screams Bluegrass as much Hybrid Picking does. Over the past years I have met
