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Learning to use musical form will help you "cast" an idea into an entire song.
Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the “5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.
a simple and fun trick that many professionals often use in their songs.
How to use your 'dead time' tp maximum advantage.
Rosocha teaches permutations - altered scale shapes based on fretboard position.
Exploding the myths surrounding talent, inspiration and writer's block.
Gaining fluency with triad arpeggios will help your soloing and rhythm playing.
Play great songs such as “Landslide”, "Dust In The Wind" and "The Boxer".
Tommaso delves into guitar solo harmonies - they are not as hard as they look.
Take you guitar playing to the next level with Tommaso's best advice for the intermediate player.
Tips on how to ready yourself for your next burst of songwriting inspiration.
Slide guitar offers a very cool and unique sound that cannot be emulated any other way.
Anyone (including yourself) can learn to develop creativity by using the proven methods and strategies for reaching this goal.
Mark covers the essential picking styles new guitarists need to learn (or at least be familiar with).
Mike shows you several ways to spice up your riffs, lines and solos with some chromatic passing tones.
A technique that allows you to play both the melody and accompaniment parts of a blues tune at the same time.
Online streaming is a good way of adding a new revenue channel to your live shows.
Mike teaches you scale sequences (in the Hanon style, adapted from piano) that are great for your dexterity and precision.
There's a chance you have too many unfinished songs sitting on your computer, or maybe even on your bookshelf - let's finish them.
Melodies are what stick in the listeners mind and convey passion and emotion: creating coherence in your solos.
These exercises will help you to focus on string crossing with alternate picking, and also to help you develop left/right hand synchronization, speed and stamina.
Anyone (including yourself) can learn to develop creativity by using the proven methods and strategies for reaching this goal.
An original work (part one of two preludes) composed for solo electric guitar, in tabulature and standard notation.
Some creative uses of digital delay when writing or recording.
Tips for playing arpeggiated chord progressions using string skipping.
An arrangement of the Tchaikovsky piece for solo guitar, in tabulature and standard notation.
New Jersey guitarist Paul Kuntz takes time out from lunch to give you his assurance that there is life beyond the blues scale.
Don`t let your current concept of reality dominate your guitar playing.
Arnold Schulman discusses lyric writing for the beginner.
An original work composed for solo classical guitar, in tabulature and standard notation.
Jason Pruett offers his light-hearted yet insightful views on getting the most from your guitar and busting a playing rut.
Learn some substitutions for those tried and true barre chords. How the knowledge of triads can help you come up with original sounding guitar parts.
New Jersey guitarist Paul Kuntz is back and aside from a ravenous appetite, he`s got plans to teach you all about tuplets and fitting the notes to the rhythm.
Do you still think the Aeolian mode is a ship from Star Trek? Are you comfortable discussing Mixolydian and Phrygian modes in mixed company? Tony Young cuts to the heart of modes.
Just can`t get enough info about modes, can you? Guitarist Tony Young relates modes to chord progressions.
If you`ve got the urge to explore jazz after a background in rock, you`ll need to understand the differences between the two styles. Guitarist Sean Gill gives you the keys to unlock the door to jazz.
Houston guitarist Rusty Cooley figures that with ten fingers, there`s got to be times when you can use over half of them to express your ideas.
British guitarist David Knopfler has a few words to say about the separate lead guitarist vs. rhythm guitarist identities.
British guitarist David Knopfler recalls the days when the Stratocaster was held in esteem as the instrument of choice--if you could afford one, that is. A tale of how dreams can come true, and how old feelings never quite die.
Instrumentalist Joe Bochar serves up a thinly disguised look at chromatics.
Guitarist Paul Kuntz is back with some fresh ideas on getting out of playing `in the box` and save untold wear and tear on your frets.
The beautiful part about the tempered music scale lies in it`s flexibility. One of Ken`s favorite tricks is to take one shape, and use it to move up or down the fretboard in a linear way. The similarities in chord shapes will allow you to do the same.