Learn Electric Guitar

I have been playing guitar for a while now – my entire adult life actually.  I think I first started hacking away at it in 1994.  But, as the truism goes, “you never stop learning”.  And there are a few things about playing the electric guitar that the past year has really underlined for me, and I think they’re [...]

“You never stop learning”, that’s the message Joe Bonamassa had for electric guitar players everywhere, in a recent interview with the East Anglian Daily Times. Having played over 200 gigs in the past year, in a performing career that stretches back 21 years to when he opened for BB King as a 12 year old, [...]

Yesterday I wrote a little article about how to learn the electric guitar without immediately blowing all your money.  So today I thought I’d take a different tack: stuff you can buy if you’re really on a mission to spend as much money as you can in the shortest time possible. Jimmy Page’s new autobiography [...]

As guitarists we are continually presented with new things to spend our money on.  Some of them are exactly what we need, others are a great idea for someone else, other items still are a total waste of money.  Being constantly shown new bits and pieces to play or to plug into, it’s very easy [...]

Guitar Center have published three snippets from a video interview with former Yardbird and jazz fusion groundbreaker Jeff Beck.  These videos are worth watching whether you have never picked up a guitar before or you’ve been playing for decades.  I was lucky enough to see Jeff Beck play live in concert just a few months [...]

“Shut up an’ play yer guitar” – Frank Zappa For years now, I have made a habit of frequenting music forums and blogs quite a bit.  I’ve made a few firm friendships that way, learnt a great deal, and had some laughs along the way.  In reading the posts on some of these places I [...]

The world of guitar instruction has changed a little since I was first started playing electric guitar as a teenager in the early 90s. Home internet was around back then, but it was very new, and downloading hours of video or audio content was certainly not something that ordinary people had the connection speeds to [...]

It happens to all of us some of the time.  Anybody learning electric guitar will at some stage reach a point where every time they pick up the guitar they end up playing the same few things that they played last time. It’s worth noting that playing similar patterns does not have to be a [...]

After finding a band looking for a guitarist, you will need to meet up with them for an audition.  Often, with rock bands, things will be a little less formal and instead of planning an audition, somebody in the band will just say “hey dude, come over to our practice space for a jam” or [...]

Playing guitar at home can be very rewarding.  And for many people, that’s enough.  But, to really learn guitar beyond a beginner level, to really progress with your playing you will need to jam with other people.  Learning to really lock into a band and to listen and connect with other musicians is completely different [...]