Learn Electric Guitar

When you’ve just started learning to play guitar, it can be easy to get to a point where you ask yourself “what song should I learn next?” Here are 10 rock songs that sound great and aren’t that difficult to play.  If you’re a rock player and you’re looking for something new to sink your [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

So you are learning electric guitar, and unsatisfied with the pace you have set? Learning to play any sort of instrument does largely come down to consistent practice. But there are a few things you can do that will help you learn electric guitar fast. 1) Use a metronome There are many types of metronomes [...]

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 [...]

Southpaws have a few different options when they first start learning guitar.  Some people who are naturally left handed will just get a right handed guitar and learn to play it like any right hander would.  This gives you the most options with guitars to buy, and considering that the left hand does a lot [...]

Isn’t it strange how performing in front of a crowd can sometimes make something as fun and enjoyable as playing into a real nightmare?  Here are a few tips to sort out those nerves.. Know your parts Learn every part of every song you’re going to play, and learn them backwards.  Get to the stage [...]

Another alternate picking exercise: Click here for full-size image This is a bit different to the exercises I posted before – instead of being based on a blues scale, it involves a suspended second arpeggio shape repeated across the strings and descending chromatically. Be careful to practice it very slowly to begin with, and speed [...]

I haven’t added any exercises here in a while.. though I do plan to get one more post on alternate picking exercises before christmas.  In the meantime, check out these licks from Jon over at Guitar Noize. He’s written up some string skipping exercises, they are written out legato though as he suggests, you could [...]

I got an email from some dude called Dave, in response to what I’d posted about the video of the blind dude playing some killer electric guitar. He had a link to a youtube video of a great guitarist.. with one of his arms amputated above the elbow. Check it out: This is the first [...]