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Guitar Chords: How To Solo Over Chords With The Minor Pentatonic Scale by John Bilderbeck Soloing over guitar chords is easy when you know how to use the minor pentatonic scale. Add spice and power to your solo's with these simple but highly effective techniques... Read More

Guitar Players...Get a Balanced Practice Diet by Craig Bassett Do you have a wide variety of things that you practice. Or do you like to binge? (You know...the type of player who practices sweep picking for a kazillion hours a day but only know three chords)!... Read More

Guitar Players...Learn About The Point Of Discipline by Craig Bassett Have you ever started learning a lick or exercise and stopped practicing it before you had mastered it? Now I don't know you, but my guess the answer to the question is yes! Why is that?... Read More

Guitar: What Is The Ultimate Way To Practice On Your Guitar? by Peter Edvinsson What is the ultimate truth about guitar practicing? Is there a best way to practice on your guitar? ... Read More

Guitarists -- Don't Use Your Head, Use Your Neck! by Joey Robichaux Want to expand your versatility on the guitar? Don't use your head -- use your neck!... Read More

How to Play Slide Guitar by Dennis Tryon Don’t you just love the distinctive sound of a slide guitar, whether it’s on a country tune or the down and dirty blues? There has been a renewed interest in slide and bottleneck guitar playing... Read More

Learn to Play Guitar - Pinch Harmonics and Making your Guitar Scream by Todd Arsenault In this article I'll explain how to make your guitar squeal with Pinch Harmonics. A lot of guitarists have trouble learning how to do these, but it's really a simple technique... Read More

Learn to Play Guitar Easily - Really by Frank Foxx I’m on a mission. To convert. To convert guitar players and aspiring guitar players to open-D. It’s the tuning so important to guitar in the last number of decades, but too often, overlooked by the mainstream... Read More

Right Hand Guitar Playing Tip by Yuri Nikitin This lesson can open for you a secret of high-speed guitar playing... Read More

Your Best Guitar Practice Routine by Griff Hamlin Coming up with the best guitar practice routine is a matter of first deciding what your goals are. For most guitarists when they think of a practice routine, the goal is to improve speed and technique... Read More

Bluffers guide to Playing Jazz by John Winkler Notes about playing jazz; a fun guide to this inventive music... Read More

The Art of Playing Jazz Guitar - A True Preparation Primer Part 1 by John Belthoff I'm not going to kid you; playing Jazz Guitar is extremely difficult at best and almost downright impossible at worst. However there are things you can do to improve your improvisation skills and feeling and we'll discuss them throughout this multi part series... Read More

The Art of Playing Jazz Guitar - A True Preparation Primer Part 2 by John Belthoff In part 1; we discussed various metronome techniques to advance our awareness, concentration, feeling, and broaden our minds while practicing. This article will go into what we should be practicing and, more importantly, thinking when using those techniques... Read More

Guitar Lessons - Guitar Vibrato by Bill McRea Playing a guitar without vibrato is like eating Mexican food without salsa. Vibrato is one of the most definitive techniques in defining your musical style... Read More

Guitar Lessons - Hammer-On, Pull-Offs by Bill McRea One of the primary legato techniques all guitarists must learn is the hammer-on, pull-off. This technique is important because it allows for nuances in tone and expression, and it allows the picking hand a “break” since it does not have to pick the notes on the hammer-on or the pull-off... Read More

Guitar Lessons - Playing Harmonics by Bill McRea A harmonic is a tone that’s created by the guitar by touching the string above a fret on an open vibrating string... Read More

Guitar Lessons - String Bending by Bill McRea Bending strings is used to give the guitar a more personalized and harmonic quality. The technique is used mostly by lead guitar players but is also applied in all styles of playing... Read More

How to get a Jazz Guitar Sound by Adrian Martin The word Jazz often evokes a darkly light Smokey club with musicians expertly improvising against seemingly complex chord progressions... Read More

Polychords and the Jazz Improviser: How to Practice & Apply Polychords to Improv by Andrew Hanna In the world of music, many Jazz improvisers and Classical composers eventually venture into exploring poly-harmony within their respective art form. Poly harmony is the simultaneous sounding of more than one harmonic concept... Read More

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