Learn Electric Guitar

Hey everyone, this post follows on from an earlier one on alternate picking, so check that out before you get stuck into this. These are some more alternate picking exercises on a blues scale. They are written in B, but don’t contain any open strings, so you can move them up and down on the [...]

Hey – check out this lesson on combining hammer ons, sweep picking and tapping, from an awesome blog I read called “i heart guitar”. This is great stuff because by practicing licks like this you can stop using advanced techniques like sweep picking and tapping as a “trick”, and start using them a seamless part [...]

I had a student who took a couple of alternate picking exercises from a magazine, and worked at it until he got some impressive speed and accuracy.  Which is awesome – practicing regularly is the only way to develop some real chops.  But then when it came time to stop playing through the exercise and [...]

This video is great.  A friend showed me this quite some time ago, and normally I wouldn’t post up something this old.  But in case anyone out there missed it when it came out, you owe it to yourself to take a look.  It doesn’t matter what kinda tunes you’d normally enjoy, this is really [...]

If you want to learn the electric guitar, chances are good that sooner or later you will be in the market to buy one.  I guess you could conceivably get by just by relying on the kindness of friends and strangers to let you borrow one to practice on, but that could get real old [...]

Hi.  Welcome to my new web page.  This is where I’m going to be posting thoughts and ideas about learning the guitar.  Expect to see some exercises, some theory, some different approaches to learning, some links to cool videos and stuff I find on the internet.  Whatever I feel like really.  First post up tomorrow. [...]