Sometimes playing guitar isn’t enough. Banging out chords is way more fun when you can sing along. So let’s talk a bit about how to one and one together and get awesome. These are my best tips on how to play guitar and sing at the same time. Continue reading
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- Ok, you can get good at air guitar pretty quick.
Over the last 20 years of teaching guitar, I’ve been asked this question exactly 1.6 billion (give or take a billion) times. “How long will it take me to get good at guitar?” And my answer is the same every time. “No good teacher will give you an answer to that question.”
There are a few reasons for this… Continue reading
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could always be perfectly focused on what we’re doing without any outside distractions? Of course, we all know that doesn’t always happen. And sometimes it doesn’t happen at pretty important times. Like when you’re playing guitar… on stage… in front of hundreds (thousands!) of people. Continue reading
The best thing you can do for yourself in learning how to play the guitar, the #1 thing that will help you improve quickly, is having a good practice strategy.
Now, before we get into this, I want you to understand something important… Continue reading
Even after almost a quarter century of playing guitar, you can learn some new stuff along the way. If you keep looking, there’s always something new to learn on the guitar.
Recently I learned about a tuning technique I’d never thought of before.
One of the big problems with the guitar is that it’s not a perfectly tuned instrument. Really, no instrument is, because equal tempered tuning is just a little bit off in a lot of places. On the guitar, the B string in particular can be a nasty bugger to get right. This technique of standard guitar tuning really seems to nail it pretty well. Continue reading
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