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Start a Guitar Community and Save the World

Sunday, January 29, 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

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, [...]

30 Days to Better Jazz Guitar by Dr. Matt Warnock

Sunday, December 11, 2011

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My good friend and fellow blogger, Dr. Matt Warnock, is doing great things for the guitar community. Through his work on the Guitar International website and his own personal website, Matt has been challenging us all to be better guitarists, and his recently published eBook – 30 Days to Better Jazz Guitar – is his [...]

Is the Gibson Firebird X the Death Of the Guitar?

Thursday, September 29, 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 [...]

CD Review: Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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It is often said that our biggest periods of growth come after the most traumatic events. If that’s is true, then progressive rockers Dream Theater recently received an Olympic-sized injection of HGH when in 2010 it was announced that drummer and band patriarch Mike Portnoy was no longer with the band. It would be fair [...]

The Pentatonic Scale Has Been Banned!

Tuesday, September 20, 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 [...]

Demystifying Fingerstyle Guitar

Friday, September 16, 2011

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If you’re intrigued by fingerstyle guitar playing but haven’t yet found a way into feeling comfortable with the technique involved, then you’re not alone. It took me ten years of dabbling on and off with fingerstyle guitar before I finally felt like I had a handle on how to fingerpick. Then, I found a teacher [...]

Fretterverse Releases First eBook in Series

Friday, September 9, 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

Wednesday, August 31, 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. [...]