Hybrid Picking

“Hybrid picking” is kinda a mix of “pick picking” (for want of a better name…) and “fingerpicking”. I explain in more detail in today’s video: Any questions? Please leave them in in comment section below… Rob.

May 31, 2011 at 5:11 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, How to | No comments

Guitar Techniques: Two Handed Tapping

Just a short video on Eddie Van Halen style fingertapping. This technique can sound very impressive (when really we know that it’s nowhere near as difficult as it sounds…). Any questions, please comment below. Rob.

May 29, 2011 at 12:11 pm | Exercises | No comments

Practice Routine: Self Evaluation

If you’ve followed this series, then you would have first figured out what to practice and then set about creating a practice routine that focused on those goals. After some time, however, you’re going to need to make sure your practice time is still being used effectively. I can’t tell you how long you’re gunna [...]

May 27, 2011 at 8:00 am | Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

Transcribing: Jamming the Key

So, as I promised, this series is going to help you when you want to tab stuff out. One of the easiest ways to start is to simply “jam” over the song as a backing track. Sounds kinda simple for something that’s supposed to be so difficult, right? First, read the pages on the major [...]

May 26, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Developing Your Ears, How to | No comments

Metal Rhythm Guitar: Pinch Harmonics

Firstly, if you don’t know what a pinch harmonic is, watch this awesome example: Wanna know how to get the guitar to squeal like that? Those are “Pinch Harmonics”. Playing Harmonics A while ago I did this video for bass, which explains where the natural harmonics live on the strings (and what notes they are). [...]

May 24, 2011 at 2:43 pm | Guitar Technique and Exercises, Rhythm Guitar | No comments

Practice Schedule (part 2)

Following on from last week’s post, today I’m going to be finishing off what I was telling you about how you can create a personalised practise routine just for you. We’ll start where we left off, with the third section of the routine (please read the previous post for the first part of this article). [...]

May 20, 2011 at 8:00 am | Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

Why Transcribe?

Well, this might seem obvious to you: you want to transcribe because you want to “figure out” the guitar tab for a certain song, right? Of course, that’s only after you’ve checked google (or your favourite tab site) for someone else’s work (which has the potential to be wildly inaccurate, sound nothing like the original [...]

May 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Developing Your Ears | No comments

Rhythm Guitar: Strumming

So you know how to strum, right? Well, do you? Do you ever find that your strumming hand gets “out of time” or certain rhythms just feel awkward to play? It might just be that your strumming technique needs working on… I have talked about the importance of the strumming hand before, and how important [...]

May 17, 2011 at 11:00 pm | Exercises, Guitar Technique and Exercises, Rhythm Guitar | No comments

Practice Schedule

So, over the last week you should have created a list of things to practice (and if you haven’t read last weeks post, I suggest you read that first). This week we’ll be doing the complicated bit: putting together a personalised practice routine just for you. I know some practise routines that you find on [...]

May 13, 2011 at 8:00 am | Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

How to Transcribe

Have you ever been in the situation where you’re scouring the Internet for a guitar tab- an accurate guitar tab- of one of your favourite songs only to be unable to find it? It sometimes seems like some of the best songs are either not tabbed out at all, or -maybe even worse- the only [...]

May 12, 2011 at 6:00 pm | Developing Your Ears | No comments

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