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GuitarTeacher.com's "Ask The Teacher" service is now free!! After offering online guitar support for the past six months with just a handful of subscribers, I will now give away my experience by answering your questions in our Forum page. I figure the extra page views that an active forum will provide ... Full story

I have to laugh at my profession getting skewered in the following two clips from YouTube! You do know there are good guitar teachers on YouTube, right? The Guitar Lesson httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK7UHJC0WY4 Hot Guitar in 5 minutes with Bernie Burns httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_yhKFXxXqU Full story

In the following video guitar lesson I show the opening riff and main guitar parts for "Get On Your Boots" from the new U2 album 'No Line On The Horizon'. The lesson includes both full and half speed versions and an explanation of the parts shown. If "Vertigo", the first single from U2's last album, is any indication, get ready to hear this new U2 ... Full story

When I started playing guitar and first learned barre chords, I thought using a capo was "cheating". "Shouldn't everyone learn how to play an F chord or C# minor?", I thought. While this is surely true, I now realize that the sound you get by using open strings is such a beautiful tone that understanding and ... Full story

I am excited to let everyone know that Twitter is now integrated with the GuitarTeacher.com website. You can follow GuitarTeacher.com by visting our Twitter profile at http://twitter.com/guitarteachrcom. Note the missing 'e' in teacher if you are typing it directly into your browser. Twitter user names are only 15 characters so I had to give up ... Full story

Hey, GuitarSlingers! Looping jam tracks are a popular feature here. I looked back and realized there are now more than 20 free looping jam tracks here at GuitarTeacher.com. Following is a recap of these to this point to refresh everyone's memory about these older tracks. Hopefully this provides a handy jumping off point and may drive you guys deeper into older content on GuitarTeacher.com. Each ... Full story

Back in 1980, I bought my very first record album from Tower Records (remember them?) in San Francisco. It was "Blizzard Of Ozz" by Ozzy Osbourne. I don't really know why I bought that album. The cover kind of freaked me out and I don't think I even knew who Black Sabbath was at the time. Regardless of my sheltered childhood I fortunately purchased one ... Full story

In teaching guitar I come across students with various reasons as to why they will have trouble learning to play. Maybe they are taking up the guitar later in life, they might have small hands or other physical challenges, a lifestyle with time limitations, whatever. If large hands made a great guitarist then basketballer Shaquille O'Neal would probably be the greatest guitar player around! I can ... Full story

Note: A PDF document for the Major Scale Chord Chart in this lesson can be found here. In a previous post, I presented a Guitar Harmony Chart for twelve major keys. In teaching guitar I find that there are five keys that are far and away the most common. In fact, any one of these five might be used more than the remaining ones ... Full story

One of the best experiences of attending Musicians Institute was having limitless opportunity to jam with the other students. On one such occasion, I was introduced to the progression for "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix. Little did I know that I would end playing this song hundreds of times on stage and in jam sessions! This backing track uses a handful of common chords, both ... Full story