Learn Electric Guitar

An interesting comment from blog reader ‘stevo’ on my last post on learning to play other people’s songs:     “why would you wanna play other people’s songs? just develop your own voice” There’s so many different ways of responding to this, because different people have different reasons for wanting to learn other people’s songs. I’ve [...]

Hey, been a while since I’ve posted.. I’ve been a bit distracted from this because I’ve just joined a new band.  It’s a 5 piece doing covers of hard rock and old-school heavy metal songs.  I’ve had about 30 new pieces to learn, and some of them are really stretching the limits of my technique.  [...]

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 [...]