Hello and welcome to my “Play It All Acoustic Guitar” review. Peavey Presents “Play It All Acoustic Guitar Beginner” is a DVD for the complete beginner who is just starting to play the guitar. John McCarthy is the instructor on This Rock House Method beginner program. Along with the 100-minute DVD, each Rock House product … Read more
You’ve diligently been practicing your guitar. You can tell that you’re improving. Chord changes are coming easier. You’re getting songs up to tempo. You know inside that you’re getting better. Aren’t you? One way to gauge your real progress is to record yourself playing a tune or an exercise over a period of time. Here’s … Read more
For my money, learning the notes on the guitar fretboard is an essential skill to help you learn to play guitar quickly and effectively. If you’re just starting to learn guitar, and even if you’re learning guitar from tablature, knowing what notes you’re playing will be extremely helpful. Knowing the notes on the guitar fretboard will help … Read more
A metronome is a mechanical device that provides a click sound at a selected tempo. The metronome lets you learn to control the timing of the music. Critics of metronome practice rightfully claim that real music is not played at a strict click-click metronome tempo. In live music, the tempo gets pushed or pulled back. … Read more
Mickey Baker’s Complete Course in Jazz Guitar has been around for over 50 years. It’s definitely an “old school” style of music book. But if you’re an intermediate player, can read standard notation, and want to get started playing jazz guitar, this book will get you started. Watch the video briefing for Mickey Baker’s Complete … Read more
Charting your weekly guitar practice is a great way to keep you on track with your guitar-playing goals. You do have distinct guitar-playing goals? Don’t you? If not, stop and read, Guitar Tip: Set Your Guitar Playing Goals. First, establish how much time you can allocate to guitar practice during a typical week. In my case, … Read more
Hello and welcome to my Blues You Can Use review. If you want to play blues guitar, Blues You Can Use will get you going right. The book is a comprehensive study of virtually all of the popular electric blues guitar styles from Gospel Blues to Texas Rock Blues, a la Stevie Ray Vaughan. The … Read more
Don’t even think about practicing your guitar without having a pad and pencil handy (or pen, if you prefer). The pad/pen complement the digital timer I suggested in Guitar Practice Tip: Use a Countdown Timer. See my post, How to Practice Guitar With a Metronome.First, I like to use a mechanical pencil, with a decent eraser. One … Read more
You may be wearing one of the most effective guitar-practice tools on your wrist — a digital watch with a countdown timer. If you don’t have a countdown timer on your watch get yourself a digital kitchen timer. I bought a kitchen timer for about $7 at Target. Mine has a magnet and I can … Read more
Why do you want to play guitar? What do you want to get out of your guitar playing? Why practice? — to master a new tune? to learn to sight-read? to get faster? to pass the audition? Even if you don’t realize it we all practice to achieve some guitar-playing goal. To get the most out … Read more