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Have you changed your guitar strings this month?? This year??? Ever???!!! If you haven't because you are intimidated by the process, this lesson is for you. There are many benefits to keeping your strings fresh, including better tone, better feel and better dynamics to mention a few. Of course your guitar will look better. And a guitar with clean, new strings practically begs to be played! Replace ... Full story

Today's post is a looping jam track with a feel reminiscent of rock-fusion pioneer Billy Cobham. It is in the key of B with a distinct minor/Dorian character. Try the following scales: ... Full story

Learning the parts of the guitar is fundamental. The most common guitars used today can be classified as either Acoustic Guitars or Electric Guitars. Both types share the same three basic areas in common: Head, Neck and Body. The head of the guitar (or 'headstock' as some prefer) is ... Full story

Some of you may know that I held live internet group lessons weekly between 2001 and 2003. Following is a repost of the links to those archives. Hopefully you can find something in these to keep your fret-fingers busy ;-) These lessons use the RiffLick plugin from Riff Interactive™. This browser plugin ... Full story

Hey, six-stringers! In the change over to the new website format I know alot of the old content is now unavailable. I will repost old favorites as I can with plenty of new content to come!! Today's post is a looping jam track with a Santana flavor. You can play standard rock and blues licks but ... Full story

Learning guitar scales often overwhelms beginning and intermediate guitarists. Entire phone-book sized manuals are devoted to the subject that intimidate with the volume of information. Actually learning and mastering guitar scales is not that difficult. The first step is to break down the neck into positions (patterns). Then realize that each of these patterns ... Full story

Lesson covering Major/Minor Pentatonic soloing and intervallic sequences. Video Archive (33 min. - 85.5 MB) Early Rock 12-Bar Early Rock 8-Bar Documents Early Rock Licks (PDF) Scale Sequences - Groups & Intervals (PDF) Full story