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Breaking The Barline-Phrase Placement

Wednesday, May 2, 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

Friday, April 27, 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 [...]

Expand Your Harmonic and Fretboard Knowledge by Utilizing Spread Voicing Triads

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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Triads are pretty much a guitarist’s best friend. We start out learning to play open chords on the guitar, built from triads, and if we expand our playing into the classical, jazz or improvised music realm, these three-note chords expand to take on a whole new meaning and level of significance in our playing. While [...]

Fender FSR American Standard Hand Stained Ash Telecaster

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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The Fender FSR American Standard Hand Stained Ash Telecaster is a very special guitar and should be treated as such. In fact, FSR stands for “Factory Short Run,” and this limited edition guitar has been released from Fender’s iconic Corona facility. So, this Tele isn’t going to be aimed at you’re average Joe guitar player; [...]

Brockman-Andrade: AIRS – A Rock Opera

Saturday, March 10, 2012

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I can remember a moment, not so long ago, when the music world collectively sighed at the prospect of the Internet and what effect it would have on “the biz.” CD sales dropping, people buying songs instead of full albums, the inundation of thousands — if not millions — of bedroom musicians and bands being thrust onto [...]

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

Saturday, March 3, 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

Thursday, March 1, 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

Sunday, January 29, 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

Sunday, January 22, 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?

Monday, December 12, 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, [...]