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Question Everything: Exposing False Science
There is already a perfectly good way to name your chords, it already makes perfect sense, and, it describes what notes you are supposed to play, where you might play them on the neck and, in what order you should consider arranging the notes. What's in a name? Predictability and...
Lamb Of God: 'Ghost Walking' Guitar Solo Lesson With Chris Zoupa
Level: Intermediate/Advanced Tuning: C# G# C# F# A# D# I've always loved Lamb of God. They've attributed to many speeding fines and weightlifting injuries as a result of my body surging from their unique brand of heavy metal testosterock. I had a few requests on my channel to look at...
How To Improvise Blues Guitar Solos That Move Your Audience
Would you like to be able to touch the hearts of the people that hear you playing? When most blues players train improvising, they just arbitrarily keep playing lick after lick and think that the moment will come that they suddenly sound like the great blues players. Well, that is...
The Relative Nature Of Time: Calculating For The Speed Of Music In Space-Time
Break out the reading glasses, bring the iPad to the bathroom, it's story time! A short story, long, about the importance of clear oral communication when speaking the language of music. Music theory is boring. Music language is fun! Learn to talk good! Music as linguistics! Then later on in...
How To Boost Alternate Picking Speed And Accuracy
Because of the strict "up & down" nature of alternate picking, players will encounter difficulty when attempting multi-string playing because the picking always remains the same regardless of what passage/lick is being played. Sometimes the picking direction for a string cross can seem downright illogical! Especially if you come from...
The Lydian Mode With Jens Larsen
I've had a lot of requests for a lesson on the Lydian mode, so I thought I'd finally try to honour that. I'll try to give you some, hopefully new, melodic and harmonic tools to make it easier to make lines that has that sound. The lessons also contains some...
The Role Of Self-Esteem For Musicians - With Kevin Goetz
Self-esteem is one of those things that seems like some people have it naturally, and others simply don't. Unfortunately for those who seem to lack it, confidence in yourself is one of the most crucial components of motivation and creativity. The next few episodes of my Musician Psychology series are...
Slap Bass Triplet Exercises
Although these exercises can be set to different rhythms, I'm focusing on just triplets as the slap, index, middle pattern works nicely as you have three different strikes (motions) which creates a single beat. For those of you that don't know a triplet rhythm is basically three equal notes (equal...
Upper String Chord Sweeps (Sweep Picking)
Sweep picking across small triad shapes is a very cool sound that can be applied into both instrumental melodies and within your guitar solos. If you've ever tried it, sweep picking technique is not exactly an easy technique to perform and thus will require a lot of practice to end...
How To Sound More Like Your Guitar Heroes
This is a follow-up lesson to my last article, How to Avoid Sucking as a Self-Taught Guitarist - a simple song-learning strategy designed to help self-taught guitarists find direction, enjoy the learning process and get better results with less cut-and-dry practice. This article takes the strategy a step further by...
Become A Better Acoustic Guitar Player By Studying The Styles And Techniques Of Chet Atkins
A great way to improve and expand your own guitar playing is to study the styles and techniques of others, and then apply what you like to your own playing. Chet Atkins is a great candidate for this and in this article we are going to hone in on some...
How To Play 'Atonal' Guitar Metal Licks
You know your metal guitar scales like the back of your hand but you have noticed that your guitar heroes sometimes are simply "ignoring" the scale and play seemingly random notes ... and yet they still sound amazing? How is that possible? Well, it's not black magic, it's just a...
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