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Calling all Guitar Teachers and Students!!!
One of GuitarGear.org’s readers recently plugged his guitar instructional site, Teach Wombat, in one of my articles about moving into a new chapter of my guitar life. I normally don’t like random...
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It’s That Time Again…
I normally don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Haven’t done it in years. I’ve always felt there was something innately dishonest about making resolutions like “I’m going to be a better person,” or “I’m...
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Epiphany in Modal Scale Theory
Note: This isn’t going to be an instructional piece… just a sharing piece… mostly… I’ve been playing guitar for over 35 years, but it hasn’t been until the last couple of years – actually the last few...
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Learn Guitar in 3D!!!
There’s a new site called “I Perform 3D.” Check it out! It’s a trip! http://www.iperform3d.com/. Don’t know if I’d join, but I’ve never seen anything quite like it! Here’s a video: Posted in guitar,...
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New Gear: VOX JamVOX Jam and Practice Tool
Even though I have some patterns and scales that I practice, I usually end up jamming to jam tracks that I either write myself or download. But I also like to jam to music from popular bands. The only...
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The Beginner (and Master) Guitarist’s Guide to Playing Great
Ah, Padawan. Come to receive the wisdom of the ages, you have I see. Into the realms of guitar playing greatness delve deep do you wish; to play among the stars of guitar such as Vai, Satriani, Johnson...
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Learn a Classic Peter Frampton Solo!
My friend, Vinni Smith of V-Picks is an incredibly talented guitar player, and one of the things that has really sparked our friendship is our love of Peter Frampton’s music. It was hilarious to find...
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So You Wanna Be a Guitar Hero… Study Jeff Beck!
Pick up one of the major guitar mags, and you might think that to be considered a “good” guitar player nowadays you have to be able to shred it up playing 64th notes up and down the fretboard non-stop....
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Better Guitar Playing Through… HYPNOSIS?!!!
I recently read a press release on Harmony Central where this company, Hypnobusters, has just released a self-hypnosis audio to improve your guitar playing. I snickered at first because when the word...
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Got Lessons? Get ‘em at MarkWeinGuitarLessons.com!
I normally don’t write about instructional sites, mainly because they’re a dime a dozen, and most follow the same model of discussing theory, and providing scale diagrams that accompany the theory. Not...
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Why a Great Guitar Will KICK YOUR ASS!
…but it will also make you a better player! Pictured to the left is the very first Saint Guitar that I ever played. Even though she wasn’t mine, I nicknamed her “Baby Blue” and the name kind of stuck;...
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Give Your Rhythm Parts a Boost with Partial Chord Shapes
I’ve spoken about him before, but Mark Wein of Mark Wein Guitar Lessons really knows his stuff, and I’ve gotten a lot mileage from his free video tutorials. One set of tutorials that I found as a real...
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Blues With Brains Journey Update
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I purchased Chuck D’Aloia’s “Blues with Brains” series. After a month, I still haven’t moved past Volume 1, but that’s only because I’m going slowly and methodically with...
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