Classical guitar playing is often considered more difficult to play than other types of music. A lot of beginning guitar players shy away from it for fear they aren’t capable of learning classical guitar or that they don’t have the discipline. Lots of rock players may be afraid it isn’t cool to play classical, when, …
A lot of people who pick up the bass might do it initially with the false belief that bass guitar is easier to play than guitar because it has less strings. In fact, I’ve heard quite a few people actually say this. Maybe that’s true to an extent, particularly when it comes to forming chords, …
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, …
Nothing sounds as good as the blues, especially when they’re played on an acoustic guitar. While most of the early blues players never wrote anything down or couldn’t read a note of music to save their lives, over the years their work has been dissected, analyzed, and transcribed, and arranged numerous times throughout the decades. …
Due to the plurality of the Internet, I’m extremely picky and impatient when it comes to jazz guitar lessons online, especially video tutorials. If the first minute of any lesson consists of the guy talking about his methods or his preferences, or basically anything that doesn’t explicitly reference the lesson at hand, I’m out of …
I envy the younger generation of guitar players, particularly jazz guitarists, I really do. But I’m not jealous. In fairness, it’s necessary to explain the difference between envy and jealousy. Envy is wanting what other people have; for example, I’m envious of Pat Metheny’s jazz guitar virtuosity. I’m also envious of John Scofield’s pedal board. …
I’ve often thought that the phrase “jazz rhythm guitar” is redundant, mainly due to the fact that in jazz big bands of the 1930s and 40s, the guitarist was considered an essential part of the rhythm section (guitar, drums and bass). They usually played four strums to the bar, although an amount of harmonic improvisation …
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 …