Courtesy of Jesse Sterling Harrison We tend to focus on makes, models and color, but what about the different types of wood used for guitars and their role in tone... The type of wood used to build a guitar has a lot more to do with it's sound than you might think. In the...

Courtesy of Jesse Sterling Harrison Live shows are hotbeds for the effects of Murphy’s Law. With all the ingredients that go into playing out, there’s always something setting up ready to go wrong. For example, we’ve probably all had a musician beg off an already-booked...

Courtesy of Colleen Kinsey You’re getting ready to walk onstage at a packed house with the familiar buzz of a crowd bleeding with anticipation. Two problems: you’re currently playing in your unfinished basement, and your crowd consists of an ominous spider in the corner...

Figure it Out Friday's: Lesson One - Part One Welcome to the first, "Figure it Out Friday," Ear Training Guitar Lesson.  The focus of these lessons will be to study how to transcribe, (learn by ear), a new guitar melody or a chord progression every week...  Musical...

GuitarBlog: Guitar Chord Mapping Study... Chord practice, (developing chord shapes), tends to be an often overlooked area for a lot of guitar players. It's kind of funny, in a way, since rhythm guitar makes up at least 80% (or more), of what we do when we're playing...

Courtesy of Teja Gerken For many guitarists, bliss is playing a great acoustic with nothing but strings, wood, and fingers generating a beautiful tone. But it also can be fun to amplify your instrument — not only to make the guitar louder, but to shape its tone in myriad...

Video Courtesy of Per-Olov Kindgren For many classical-guitar students, tackling the Bourrée in E minor by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) is a rite of passage from playing mere exercises to playing music that many non-musicians will recognize and appreciate... Bach wrote...

Courtesy of Jesse Sterling Harrison What are those magic elements that all hit songs seem to have in common? You’ve been working hard on your sound, composing music in the shower, practicing your arpeggios, and checking out your stage moves in the mirror. You’ve perfected...