I really need your advice

hi Friend, I really need your advice! I need to line up some killer teachers and instruction for later this year! I have 2 questions for you: 1. What do you want to learn this year? Lead guitar? Acoustic blues? Jazz? Metal? Beginner stuff ? Advanced? Arepggios? Scales? Techniques? Songwriting? what? 🙂 2. Is there …

How to Play Blues on Acoustic Guitar

Acoustic blues is an awesome guitar style that everyone seems to enjoy playing these days. The basic thing, the most easiest way to get started, is to learn the *shuffle pattern*. Shuffle patterns are VERY common in blues… so although a lot of you folks might already know this, check it out anyway 🙂 How’s …

Special Video Presentation on Getting Gigs

What would say if I told you that you can get high quality, high-paying gigs (playing your guitar)… …without contacts, without a press kit, without a demo, and without experience? the real secrets about getting gigs and booking shows come from a friend of mine who has a special presentation for you. It’s about 15 …

How to get gigs and book shows

hi Friend, What would say if I told you that you can get high quality, high-paying gigs (playing your guitar)… …without contacts, without a press kit, without a demo, and without experience? You’d probably think I’m crazier than a sh*t house rat, right? lol… Well, suspend your disbelief because I’m about to show you how. …

The Modern Slide Vibrato

Hey, guys. Claude Johnson here from guitarcontrol.com and today I just want to show you this little sliding thing. I call it the modern slide vibrato. I’ve seen a lot of guys use this technique, modern fusion guys, in recent years have use this and it’s like you get that vibrato effect because you’re going …

Video: The Modern Slide Vibrato

hi Friend, This is one technique I never saw in any traditional “guitar guides”… I call it the “modern slide vibrato”… It’s something that only the hippest guitar cats do 🙂 As always, the Johnsonater is here for you, to “decode” the latest and greatest. Check out the video I just shot this morning: VIDEO …

Your opinion: Is this guy the King of the Blues?

hi Friend, A couple months back, I was sitting reading a guitar magainze and saw a cool article about a dude name “Jonathon Boogie Long”. He was the 2011 winner of Guitar Centers’ “King of the Blues” contest. Please don’t confuse “Guitar Control” (which is us) with “Guitar Center”, the national chain of guitar super …