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How to buy a vintage guitar
Introduction Buying a vintage guitar can be a minefield of dodgy playability and overpriced mint-conditions, but there are still some bargains to be had out there – you just need to know what you’re doing. Follow our 12-step guide on how not to be taken for a mug and you...
How the Electric Guitar Was Invented
For as far back as we are able to look into the prehistory of the human race, music has been a crucial part of the life of humans. Some scholars even speculate that human music may have come before language. From the beginning, people living in little groups sang and...
How To Choose A Guitar For Beginners.
Either you want to impress the girls in your college or you have a simple intention of introducing your child to music, having a good guitar is very, very essential. Now, how would you ever choose a guitar when ever guitar you pick up screams, “Buy me! I’m the best!”?...
Choosing The Right Guitar Pick
In this lesson I will show you how I advise my students on choosing a variety of guitar picks - we will look at which ones are suitable for which type of song, guitar and genre of music. Choosing 3 picks is something I recommend you do too. How many...
Learn To Sweep Pick In One Week
In my opinion, 90% of guitar players fail because their lack of discipline and believing in themselves. I got a solution - they should believe that it's possible to learn difficult thing like sweep pick in one week with very simple exercises step by step. For example I took A...
Soloing Scales To The Dominant Chord With Thomas Berglund
The dominant chord is an important chord in improvisation and in music in general. You can experiment a lot with the dominant chord regarding to scales and chord shapes. In this lesson I'll talk about three scales that work very good to use when you improvise. I'll show them in...
Conquering The Fretboard - Part 1
This lesson shows how the guitar tuning dictates shapes we get on the guitar, and shows how we arrive at the various octave shapes, which in turn break a 12-fret block of the guitar into 5 regions. Getting to know where these regions exist is a good way to reduce...
Diatonic Exercise No. 2 With George Salas
Hey guys, here's a short lesson on single string pedal point shapes. It is all in C major but as usual, I urge you to apply this to every key and string. A pedal point is a note that is either sustained (usually heard in organ pieces and usually a...
An Idiot's Guide To Overcoming The Physical Limitations Of Chording
The eleven chord is a strange beast all to its own. It is one of the easiest chords to play, but also one of the hardest to wrap your head around. The essence of the 11 chord is this: the root of the chord, is not always the root note....
The Key Change: Useless Cliche Or Lost Art?
Key changes are almost a taboo subject in the music community. Some songwriters shun the use of them, while others like them so much they employ them constantly. So who's right? The way I see it, there are two schools of thought when it comes to a key change. The...
How To Play And Use A II-V-I Progression Properly
The basic chord progression in modal music is the famous ii-V-I progression. This turnaround is common in jazz music but also in other popular music styles that are based on modal theory. It determines the tone of the key in the song and if it's major or minor. It doesn't...
Learn Blues Soloing Strategies
I'm no guitar hero but I'm very into improvising and soloing with my guitar. I have some advices for soloing strategies. Actually they are basic but I think they work out really good. Here's my two cents. Be a player who always has the ear and attention of the public....
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