When I started I had no idea of what to look for in a guitar. I remember when I was young and my dad would blast guitar music on the stereo all I wanted to do was to be able to play the solo from Johnny B Goode. Was it expensive? Not at all! Your […]
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Why I Found Guitar Lessons So Useful
There seems to be infinite ways of learning the guitar. Many of them are even free. Through YouTube or online videos. Finding tabs and chord sheets online for your favourite songs and searching the chord shapes. Plus there are endless apps you can use that help to ‘make a game’ out of learning guitar (the […]
How to get improvising and making up your own guitar solos
While improvising and making up your own lead parts is exciting, many people find it intimidating. Where do I start? What do I need to do? Am I good enough to make up my own solos yet? You can start to learn to improvise much sooner than you probably think. If you know a scale […]
Guitar Grades – Should I Take Them or Am I Better Avoiding Them?
Having completed Grade 8 in Electric Guitar Playing through the Registry of Guitar Tutors (RGT), I can definitely say that studying the guitar grades can be useful. But are they the best way to learn to play the guitar? Can you become a great musician without them? Should you just avoid them all together? […]
Gary went from dreaming for 27 years about being able to play bass, to playing his favourite songs and being able to jam with any musician
Gary had loved the sound of the bass guitar for as long as he could remember. He dreamed that one day he would be able to play like the bassists in the songs on the radio and in the bands he watched live. But, as for so many people, life just seemed to get in […]
Stop over thinking! You’ll be surprised by the results…
How many times have you been working on a chord progression to the point where you can play it really well… only to completely forget how you did it the next minute? The guitar solo you love to play and most of the time you play it perfectly, but as soon as you think about […]
Capo: Why do you use one and is it cheating?
Capo: Why do you use one and is it cheating? Capos are commonly used in acoustic styles of guitar playing, but can also be used on an electric guitar. A capo acts like the nut at the end of your fretboard and holds down the strings – so if you clamped a capo onto […]
5 reasons to add distortion to your guitar practice
5 reasons to add distortion to your guitar practice It can seem that distortion just makes your guitar playing sound worse – especially for beginners. Start by adding a moderate amount of distortion to your guitar sound (roughly half on the dial) and then work from there. You don’t need to have it […]
Does your first guitar really need to be an acoustic guitar?
Does your first guitar really need to be an acoustic guitar? Once you start looking for your first guitar you’ll notice that there’s lots of different types. There’s acoustic guitars, electric guitars and classical nylon string guitars. But then there’s also semi acoustic guitars, hollow body electric guitars and metal resonator guitars (I […]
How to practice guitar with limited time – and still get better
How to practice guitar with limited time – and still get better. Tips and techniques to make your guitar practices more effective and to create time even with a busy schedule With everything else we need to get done in a day – our jobs, classes, driving around doing 101 errands – it […]