Learning to play the guitar can have its ups and downs. But, you can't let the bad feelings get a hold of you. Learn to focus on all the good that comes from playing music and the guitar. It will do wonders for your attitude toward practice and with your further development...

Spice up your rhythm playing with these easy chord strumming embellishments... Playing chords and strumming different types of rhythm patterns makes up the largest part of what the rhythm guitarist does within a song. And, if the rhythm guitarist plays the same chord shapes...

GuitarBlog: Diminished Scale Licks and Runs Spice up your Jazz lines by learning one of the coolest sounding Jazz scales on the planet... One of the most common Jazz scales (applied in nearly all styles of jazz music), is the Diminished scale.Often referred to as...

Famous teachers and guitar players will tend to inspire us to take the next step in our playing. If you need some inspiration to go a little further, to move yourself into a new direction or to simply motivate yourself to practice more (keeping the passion alive), then you're...

There are a lot of ways to make chord progressions sound more directed as well as more interesting. Techniques like  using embellishments, articulation and phrasing devices are some of these. But, another way is through the use of chord inversions... Inverted chords...

GUITAR BLOG INSIDER... GUITAR TACTIC:  Modal Melody Swapping Modes for guitarists can be quite confusing. But, when the intervals for each mode are individually focused on their sound will start to open up. By performing each mode through just one guitar lick, players...

Are you interested in learning how to use the seven major scale modes on the guitar? If so, this modes breakdown will help you better understand the differences between the modes and how they're used musically... Most of us begin learning scales by studying the Ionian mode...

We all want to become great guitar players. In fact, we want to become the best guitar player that we can be. And, while this might sound obvious, for many it isn’t obvious on how to get there... A lot of guitar players have the tendency to compare themselves with other musicians....