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Start a Guitar Community and Save the World

29 January 2012

Kids these days. Seems like every generation says the same thing about the younger ones. “When I was your age, yadda yadda yadda” is something we always hated to hear growing up, but now seem to find ourselves saying it more and more. I’m not here to lecture anyone on sociology, the trouble with kids [...]

Learn to Play Guitar and Sing at the Same Time

22 January 2012

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For many people, myself included, the guitar is not just an instrument; it’s an accompaniment. I have always enjoyed expressing myself through music, in particular by singing. Not long after I really started getting interested in music in my teens, I decided to purchase an acoustic guitar at the age of 19. At the time, [...]

Have You Set Your Guitar Goal for the New Year?

12 December 2011

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Yes, it’s that time of the year again; the end of the year. That time when we start to drool with anticipation and count down the days to see if our loved ones got us all of the guitar goodies we asked for. (And I know one of those things was our Scale Mastery eBook, [...]

Why is Rush NOT in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

14 October 2011

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I have a profound distaste for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It would be fair to say that I think it’s a joke, a disgrace, and nothing more than a way for a select few music executives and critics to get together once a year and circle-jerk while they tell each other how [...]

Is the Gibson Firebird X the Death Of the Guitar?

29 September 2011

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It’s not a mystery that the line between analog and digital has been getting smaller and smaller over the years. I think Line 6 was the first company to truly innovate and show us what was possible. With modeling now taking such a prevalent position in the music product industry, it was only a matter [...]

The Pentatonic Scale Has Been Banned!

20 September 2011

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If ever there was a crutch that would forever stunt the musical growth of guitar players throughout the history of time, that crutch would be the Pentatonic Scale. Thousands of potentially great guitar solos have been spoiled by that little sequence of five notes that simply will not die. More disturbingly, millions of potentially great [...]

Fretterverse Releases First eBook in Series

9 September 2011

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We hinted about it here — and was a bit more blatant about it here — so it’s not really a surprise announcement by conventional standards. But, we (Fretterverse) are quite pleased to announce the release of its first eBook — Scale Mastery. Over a year in the making, Scale Mastery takes you way beyond [...]

The Hump Day Guitar Challenge

31 August 2011

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If ever there was a day of the week when motivation simply does not exist, Hump Day would be it. It’s still a wee bit too early to get excited about the weekend, it’s never a paycheck day and, as much as you really want to sit around and do nothing, you know you can’t. [...]

Some Days I Wish I Didn’t Have a Guitar Blog

26 August 2011

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You know, there are those times, though few and far between, when I really wish I didn’t have a guitar blog. I think it pretty much goes without saying that if you have a guitar blog you’re more or less relegated to writing only about guitar, right? I mean, who in their right mind would [...]

The eBook is Coming! The eBook is Coming!

24 August 2011

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It’s taken me a year to finally be able to make this great announcement. I’m happy to tell you all that I am now putting the finishing touches on the first volume in the Fretterverse Guitar Concepts eBook series, which will be available for sale very soon! Volume 1 is called “Scale Mastery” and, obviously, [...]