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Quick Guide to Open Position Scales

The first Led Zep album I bought was Houses of the Holy. If you haven’t got it I suggest you […]

We all know that sitting down to learn a bunch of chord shapes is probably one of the most tedious […]

I touched on how to connect scale patterns briefly at the end of this post a while back, so I […]

Making the decision to go to Music College takes balls. I did it back in the early 2000s before Music […]

Guitars, like other wooden instruments, are very sensitive and while you might think your guitar will live, and sound great […]

Most guitarists I know, myself included, have a fairly large collection of guitar books and teaching methods, and if you […]

So that was all the encouragement I needed to stop practicing for a while, not that I practiced a hell […]

Let’s face it, learning scales is hard work; there are just way too many of them, and how do you […]

Singer, guitarist and songwriter Ben Mauro has just finished up a major European tour with none other than legendary pop/funk […]

Stereotypes can sure be annoying, and unfortunately female guitarists put up with more than their fair share. If you missed […]