Learn Electric Guitar

Hey everyone, not long ago I contacted Dr. Matt Warnock about writing a guest post for us here at the Learn Electric Guitar blog.  Matt is a professional performer and guitar teacher, writing for Guitar International magazine and teaching at Western Illinois University.  I asked him if he could write something about improvising over a [...]

The late Stephen Ray Vaughan is a Texas Blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter known for his work as a solo artist and with the band Double Trouble. Stevie Ray Vaughan is often referred to by fans by his initials, SRV. Stevie’s first guitar was a plastic toy guitar, given to him in 1963. SRV got [...]

“One of my favourite things on the album is the title track, where we can hear you flip the pickup switch… Oh yeah! I love that because usually you’d edit that kind of thing out, but hearing little details like this is just great! Oh yeah! I like doing things in one take, not chopping [...]

The 12 bar blues is one of the most popular types of chord progression in contemporary music.  As the name suggests, it features in blues guitar a great deal,  It is also used very commonly in jazz, rock, pop, country and even heavy metal.  A 12 bar blues can be played in any key, and [...]

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 [...]