As guitarists we tend to focus on guitar-specific things such as learning licks, riffs, technique and the accumulation of gear. While this is all well and good, at some point you’ll wish you’d taken at…
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If you’re struggling to remember musical formulas, or if you’re at, or have ever been to, Music College, it’s probably dawned on you that there’s a ton of information to digest as far as scale,…
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For the most part I taught myself to play guitar. I spent a year at Music College and had a teacher for the year or so prior to going there, which accounts for less than…
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Music theory is still somewhat of a mystery for a lot of guitarists, but most have that nagging feeling that at some point they should learn some. Unfortunately, this is usually when they get stuck…
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One of the most challenging things about learning to use modes is crafting your licks and runs to bring out the flavor each mode has to offer. If you’ve learned the generic major scale patterns…
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For many, learning guitar is a painful process, and it’s not just people’s fingers that are hurting; their brains are hurting too. It’s no wonder though, as we guitarists have a lot of ‘fluff’ to…
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We all know that sitting down to learn a bunch of chord shapes is probably one of the most tedious things you can do on guitar, second only to learning how to sweep-pick. Chords in…
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I have to admit it’s been a while since I’ve taken or even reviewed a guitar course but I was intrigued by Tyler Larson’s Guitar Super System course whose premise is to a) provide all…
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