You must master the ability to play with both speed and creativity in order to make your licks stand out.
The Guitar Player's Resource
Displaying 337 - 378 of 4119
Enjoy over 24 years of staff columns, guest columns, interviews and more!
You must master the ability to play with both speed and creativity in order to make your licks stand out.
A guided tour of the 2015 album by the Scott Allen Project.
Comparing the opposing mindsets of successful and unsuccessful musicians.
If your guitar heroes use a lot of "wrong" notes and make them sound "right" (and you can`t), here`s how to do it.
Maximizing your on-stage guitar tone so that you can make every gig an enjoyable experience.
Reynaert takes you on a journey through the possibilities of blues rhythm guitar playing.
UK guitarist Sam Russell shares his personal methods on finding the inspiration to be creative musically and lyrically.
I strive to be the best I can, and I do that by incorporating everything I know into my music and I never stop learning.
Guitar Nine's April-May 2015 newsletter.
Without a strong sense of melody and phrasing your music will never have that magical sense of wonder.
Mike Campese puts both hands on the fretboard to deliver more triad arpeggios.
Stay alive. Stay sane. Stay healthy. There are methods to achieving compositional greatness that do not involved personal pain.
Before you will become a highly successful professional musician, you need to get rid of several false beliefs that will cause you to fail in your music career.
There was no goal or idea to create an album initially. The music on the album was gathered from many musical ideas that I had had over the last two years or so and were composed in many different places.
My vision and formal concept of an album is always a full length CD. And I´m surprised at how many people actually order my physical CD album. Actually I´m selling quite a few more CDs than downloads.
I didn`t want that DIY vibe for the artwork, or the sound/production. I wanted a quality product that will stand the test of time, and that meant really deciding what I could do myself, and what would be better left to a dedicated professional.
Guitar Nine's February-March 2015 newsletter.
Mike Campese delivers a fistful of single string triad arpeggios - major, minor and diminished.
Here are 11 common guitar teaching mistakes that less experienced teachers make.
UK guitarist Sam Russell has some cool ways to spice up both open chords and standard chords with modal notes.
Learn how to develop great rhythm and time with your playing.
Read on for seven advantages and benefits of being a six-stringer.
Simple music is about balance. It is about taking 1 to 2 musical ideas, weaving them together and manipulating the musical elements just right.
Tom Hess identifies the five keys required for becoming a truly great guitar player.
Musicians who build and sustain successful music careers utilize an entirely different set of skills, thought processes and values.
Two Reasons Why You Have A Hard Time Expressing Maximum Emotion In Your Guitar Playing
Mike Campese gives you a nice sweep picking arpeggio workout using the chord progression from Pachelbel`s Canon in D.
The key to playing killer guitar phrases is focusing on how you play - not necessarily which notes you use.
Dealing with blues songs featuring incredibly complicated chord changes can be easier than you think.
Do you feel like you are at a dead end with your guitar playing? Here are five killer ways that will totally change the way you play your acoustic guitar from now on,
RadioAirplay.com - there is nothing like getting your stuff heard and getting new fans. It costs but it works and does generate interested fans who like your music.
I personally think that since everything is in HD today, it gets too clear sometimes, and then, the enchanted atmosphere is not there.
Pressing Musical Boundaries