Learn Electric Guitar

Chris from the Classical Guitar Blog wrote recently about Choice Research and what it means for guitar practice.  He writes specifically about playing classical guitar, but his words can apply equally to the electric guitar, or indeed to any musical instrument whatsoever: “In ‘The Paradox of Choice’, Barry Schwartz spends a lot of time talking [...]

Josh, from the consistently awesome and extremely worthwhile Fretterverse blog has recently vented his frustration about what he terms the world’s must infuriating guitar product. The product he is referring to is the Power Chord Trainer.  This product is a small bit of plastic that fits between your fingers to train your fingers into the [...]

Procrastination is the biggest enemy of many beginner guitarists.  Typically, after someone has bought their first electric guitar and had their first few lessons, they will lock themselves in their room for hours and practice until their fingertips are too sore to keep playing.  But after a couple of months, once the initial excitement has [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

Darrin Koltow of the Guitar Noise blog has written recently about practicing first thing in the morning: “Practice first thing in the morning. The fatigued you is not the ideal, guitar-practicing you. The morning you is. Even if you’re not a “morning person,” you may still feel that boyish/girlish feeling in the morning – the [...]