How to Use a Metronome

If you haven’t already, I suggest you read my two part (yes, two part!) blog post on why you NEED to use a metronome. After posting that article, I realised that many people become confused by metronomes. There are so many different types with different (and sometimes crazy) functions that you may never even use! [...]

March 9, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

How to Play with Confidence

Photo by paulodonnell I was watching someone play guitar the other day, and I noticed how- although technically accurate- the performance lacked confidence. It just wasn’t convincing. Guitar Technique Now, I’ve talked quite alot on this blog about guitar technique- which is all well and good- but it’ll mean nothing to you if you can’t [...]

March 1, 2010 at 4:28 pm | How to, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

Beginner Guitar: 5 Reasons You need to change Your Guitar Strings

Photo by keela84 CC BY 2.0 If you haven’t already read it, I did a post a while ago about re-stringing your guitar in which I explained how to replace old guitar strings… …when they become old… …but how old is old? I don’t want to turn this into one of those “How long is [...]

February 24, 2010 at 4:16 pm | How to | No comments

How to Play “Metal” Guitar

If you’re a young, beginner guitarist then this might be something you’re interested in, and if not you’ve at least heard about it. Either way, it’s something that’s been talked and written about again and again (possibly too much?). What caught my attention, though, was this article on www.guitarlearninglesson.com. As I was reading through the [...]

February 16, 2010 at 9:42 pm | How to, Music News and Opinions | 1 comment

Guitar Lessons: How to Solo

This post is about this lesson, where I talk about how to improvise. No, I’m not talking about “what scale should I use over this?” or “what mode am I in?”! I’m talking about actual “improvisation”. Basically: How to make stuff up. If you’ve already seen the above lesson then this post probably isn’t for [...]

January 20, 2010 at 1:17 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to | No comments

Buying an Amplifier (part 2)

In my last post, I explained the different options available to you when buying a guitar amplifier (read it here) and in this post I’m going to take you through some of the things you should look out for in a good (or bad) amp. You may also want to check out my articles on [...]

January 5, 2010 at 3:00 pm | How to | No comments

Buying an Amplifier

On many occasions I’ve talked about the importance of having a good amplifier for your electric (or electro-acoustic) guitar. After all, however good the sound is that you put into an amplifier, the resulting tone is going to be shaped by the quality of the amp (and/or speaker cab). I’ve had many occasions in the [...]

January 4, 2010 at 2:42 pm | How to | 3 comments

Old Woman Blues, Next X-Factor Star?

Recently, on YouTube I came across this video of an old lady from Belarus playing the guitar with a lightbulb. The guitar is out of tune, and you can only vaguely make out the melody, but I don’t care. I think this video is great. I can’t even tell if the passers by are giving [...]

December 14, 2009 at 4:22 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to, Music News and Opinions | No comments

Why Do We Even Need Barre Chords Anyway?

This post is a response to “Bar Chords: Do You Have to Learn Them” posted on another guitar-based blog called “Not Learning Guitar” by Gary Fletcher. I agree with alot of what is said in the post, but there are a few points I would have to clarify for anyone reading it (guitar-technique related points, [...]

December 10, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to, Music News and Opinions | No comments

How to Listen by Ear

So I’m sitting here right now, listening to Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” album (‘tallica rules!) and when I listen to an album, I really like to listen. You should too! Maybe I’m a bit more “geeky” about music than most people, but I really think that listening to an album, whatever the band or genre, [...]

December 8, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to | No comments

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