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Boy Howdy! Today, for your six-string pleasure we have a cut-time, country jam track in the good 'ol country boy key of A major. It's just a simple I-IV-V progression but moves along at fast clip. Y'all give respect to those country and bluegrass players who can make the changes and get 'er done. Country Guitar Jam Track - Key of A... Full story

The Beatles are in the news a lot lately. On 9/9/09 they released the rhythm game The Beatles | RockBand. They also have remastered all of their albums for the new Beatles: Remastered Box Set. The Box Set is great if you want to hear the Beatles (amazing early reviews) and the RockBand ... Full story

Jam Bands like The Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic are known for awesome, extended improv sections and solos. The free jam tracks here on GuitarTeacher.com are perfect vehicles for practicing your own extended solos, awesome or otherwise! So today I am pairing a jam track with the jam band. For your noodling pleasure, a Latin/Rock/Samba/Blues/Wait-For-My-Cue-Before-Ending-My Solo/Jam Band jam track. This track vamps groovily between C ... Full story

When you play in a lot of cover bands (guilty as charged) you discover some riffs that always get a good crowd reaction. ZZ Top's "La Grange" is one of those riffs. Learn it and channel Billy Gibbons channeling John Lee Hooker in an all-time blues-rock boogie classic. La Grange also is a great jam night song ... Full story

A great guitar exercise for strengthening your fret hand. Long-time GuitarTeacher.com reader Mike(MJK) asked (via Twitter) "What is a good lesson to strengthen the fretting hand?" Following is one of my favorites for increasing left hand stamina and strength. It is called the "6 Minute Trill Drill". I believe I learned this at an open counseling session with guitar great Gary Hoey during my time ... Full story

Inside each individual major scale there are three different minor pentatonic scales. In the tradition of the "Secret" Pentatonics lesson let's continue looking for pentatonics in undiscovered places. Maybe our familiar, five-note friend has been 'hiding' under our noses, just waiting to be revealed in other familiar scale patterns? In fact, this is the case! I present (drum roll, please!): Hidden Pentatonics. We will start ... Full story

On average, how much individual guitar practice time do you put in each week was the question in our last reader poll here at GuitarTeacher.com. 210 readers took the time to responded. The results give a pretty clear picture of  readers' practice habits - and the outlook is good! Results shown below:... Full story

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, ... Full story

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 ... Full story

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 ... Full story