November 2016 - Unlock the Guitar

Steve Morse Style Alternate Picking Arpeggios

If you’re a fan of Steve Morse’s playing, one of his most prominent techniques is alternate picking arpeggios instead of […]

I’m a big fan of ideas like this that reduce thinking and allow you to come up with some great […]

If you’re an intermediate level, or even advanced guitarist, sweep picking is probably one of those techniques you feel you […]

Big thanks to guitartricks.com and Alex Brice for this excellent beginner’s guide to getting a great guitar tone. Here I’ve […]

If you haven’t already, check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this series of posts as they relate to […]

In the beginning, I struggled a lot with rhythm guitar, and for an unusually long time, no matter how much […]

I’m not a huge fan of the CAGED System, but I am grateful to its existence because it forced me […]

My first guitar teacher was and still is a great funk player. I’d go see him play at the local […]

I love outside playing, the more outrageous the better. I think it was Allan Holdsworth who called it, ‘playing all […]