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Breaking The Barline-Phrase Placement

2 May 2012

Improvising over jazz standards can be a very difficult thing to do. Once you learn all your scales, arpeggios, licks etc., you may find yourself in a rut with what to do with all the harmonic knowledge you have learned. For me, an incredibly important as aspect of improvisation that is overlooked is phrase placement. [...]

Learn Guitar with StrumSchool.com

27 April 2012

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For those people who want to learn guitar and are completely starting from scratch — I’m talking the people that don’t even know that the guitar has six strings — it can be be difficult to try and figure out exactly where to begin. Surely, youTube, Fretterverse, and plenty of books and DVDs have plenty [...]

NeckFx – Adding Visuals to Your Next Gig

25 April 2012

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I’m going to let the video speak for itself; what do you guys think?

Trapped In The Box – Why The Minor Pentatonic Scale Remains A Crutch

3 March 2012

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Oh minor pentatonic scale, how I love you. You are easy to learn and you sound at least reasonably good in a great many musical situations. Blues and rock music would not be what they are without you, and lots of my favorite players use you all the time. But minor pentatonic scale, I also [...]

Fake It ‘Til You Make It

1 March 2012

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I remember about 15 years ago I was offered an interesting one-night gig. A co-worker of mine had a band that was playing a show that evening. That morning, their guitar player severely cut his hand in a bizarre weed-whacking accident. (I kid you not.) As this was a pretty important show for them, the [...]

Start a Guitar Community and Save the World

29 January 2012

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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 [...]