Learn Electric Guitar

Blues guitar is a common starting point for new guitarists.  My first ever guitar lesson was learning a 12 bar blues in A, and it’s easy to see why it’s popular way for teachers to ease their students into playing – it’s a great way to introduce many fundamentals of playing guitar, such as playing [...]

Are you new to playing guitar, and not sure how you should go about learning?  There are a number of different ways you can get Guitar Instruction.  The best way to go about it depends who you are and what stage you are at.  Here are the common was to learn guitar, and the advantages [...]

There’s an excellent post on the Guitar Noize blog with a great explanation of vibrato technique.
In my opinion vibrato is one of the most crucial embellishments to tackle for any intermediate player learning electric guitar, and yet for something so ostensibly simple it can be one of the most surprisingly difficult things to explain.
One of [...]

Hey everyone,
Recently I’ve been thinking it would be cool to write a short guide for people learning the electric guitar.  Not an in-depth, comprehensive course, but a short little eBook just to help people get started.  When I’ve written it, I’ll post it on this blog for people to download for free.  But to do [...]

In my earlier post on guitar instruction methods I talk about why it is best to get private lessons from a good teacher.
I still think this is the ideal approach for learning electric guitar, for the same reasons that I listed before.  That is to say, that having a teacher right there in front of [...]