Do all your minor pentatonic guitar licks and riffs seem to sound the same? Do you feel like you’re recycling the same ideas over and over again without ever creating anything new? If that’s the case, I have good news for you. You’re at the end of the first phase of learning how to use […]
Though heavy metal was the reason why I picked up the guitar in the first place, I couldn’t start playing my favorite genre from the start. When I heard heavy metal guitar techniques like fast legato runs or sweep picking being played I believed that it would take me ages before I could even start […]
In this lesson, I gave you a set of exercises to train yourself to play the guitar with a pick. In today’s lesson, we’ll take guitar picking an extra step by using the pick together with the remaining fingers: Hybrid picking. In order to execute hybrid picking technique, your thumb, and index finger hold the […]
Learn what sus chords are, how to play them, and how to use them in songwriting. In this lesson we’ll go into three aspects of suspended guitar chords.First we’ll see what they are made of, from a theoretical point of view, and what makes their sound so distinct from other chord types. Secondly I’ll give […]
If I had to try to answer the question “How many guitar chords are there in all?”, my answer would be inaccurate, incomplete, and completely useless to your guitar learning progress anyway. The reason is that the answer to this question would depend on variables such as whether: We’re including every position of each chord […]
In this lesson we’ll explore 7th guitar chords: How they are formed from a theoretical point of view, how to play them (chord diagrams) as well as how to use them in a musical context. Part 1: 7th Chord theory A major or a minor guitar triad is made of the 1st, 3rd and 5th […]
If there is one thing guitar students of this era have in abundance, it is guitar exercises. There are millions of exercises on the Internet, some pretty generic, some aimed to teach you a specific topic. Needless to say, this is amazing. In my days we had to scrape the little money we had to […]
If you are new to playing electric guitar and are just starting out explore what pedals do it can be an overwhelming en devour. There are more choices today than ever and it seems that new products come out almost every day. With a little bit of knowledge and experimentation you will be able to […]
In this lesson I gave you a general approach you should use when learning guitar scales as well as some examples on the major and minor pentatonic scale. In today’s lesson we’ll go into more depth in learning and using major guitar scales. A bit of theory first A scale is a linear pattern of […]
If you’re asking whether you can learn the guitar or not, I have good news for you. If you can read this article, you definitely have enough mental abilities to learn the guitar. Yes, some people do have “natural talent” that is, the ability to learn (either everything in life, or a specific thing, such […]