Archive for June, 2009

Warm-up at the start of your practice session. Let's think for a moment about star athletes. A world class runner does not begin the day running at full speed. The best baseball players still take batting practice and field grounders before the game. Athletes ease into full practice and performance. Why do I bring this up? Because, as much as playing the guitar is a creative, ... View Lesson

This jam track is an upbeat shuffle, B.B. King style 12-Bar Blues in the key of G. If you want to jump in and just jam, go for it! Locate your favorite G blues scale pattern, click the play button below and wail away! The following short video shows the backing guitar parts so you can play the jam track yourself. It might help you out the ... View Lesson

Polls are important for keeping this site relevant to you, the reader. I want GuitarTeacher.com to help you play guitar better and the feedback these polls provide helps me shape the the lessons I post here. With this in mind, if you can take a moment to complete the poll below I would genuinely appreciate it. It should be fun! And informative! Practicing long and hard ... View Lesson

Working as a guitar teacher I realized early on where to focus if I was to continue getting paid. Students continued taking lessons with me because of the value I provided to them. Sure, some students seem willing to hang out because of the music store atmosphere, my playing ability or the the simple thought of "Jeez, that Storm is a really cool guy". ;) ... View Lesson

Some lead guitar licks you hear over and over again. These licks are clichés and they are valuable to have under your fingers. Just like their verbal cliché cousins, tried-and-true sayings (such as "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush") these licks can quickly get over used but they get over used because they work. The following 10 Early Rock licks work ... View Lesson

If you have never taken an online guitar lesson before, then I hope you can come join me Thursday when I take the FREE section of GuitarTeacher.com to a new level! Tomorrow, Thursday, June 12th from 2:00-3:00 PM(PST) I am previewing FREE LIVE GROUP GUITAR LESSONS. No registration required. Simply go to my Live Lesson ... View Lesson