6 Of The Guitar’s Biggest Problems Today

The guitar is starting to get left behind in the music world. All of our musings on scales, Hendrix, and the degradation of the “mainstream” are causing a seriously unhealthy outlook on the reality of the industry, while helping us put aside the fact that the instrument is becoming irrelevant. Blasphemy you say??? Hardly. I […]

The Case Against Chords: A Coldplay Guitar Lesson With Tabs

Guitar chords don’t actually tell you how to play the music you hear. They’re actually just a shortcut to the song’s harmony that kinda, sorta helps you sound like the song. G, C, and D will help you play a lot of music for the guitar, but not everything, like a lot of guitar methods […]

7 Guitar Music Theory Tricks You Need To Know

When I first played a pentatonic scale pattern, it clicked. The whole mystery of guitar music theory was resolved in a moment. All you had to do was play a certain combination of notes that the flimsy book at my side had told me to. And voila, I was a lead guitarist. Sadly most players […]

How To Create Sexy Spanish Guitar Music: A Lesson On Exotic Guitar Scales

One of the things I’ve been getting into lately are these chillout mixes using Arabic, Spanish, and Indian melodies that you can listen to on YouTube. Ever since I watched Temple Of Doom when I was little, I’ve been entranced by anything that hints at exotic locales like deserts, beaches, city nights, etc. So when […]

How To Play Music From Star Wars, Rocky, and Last Of The Mohicans On Guitar

This might be a pointless piece of trivia to most of you, but I still can’t believe Daniel Lanois, one of the producers of U2’s Joshua Tree album, won’t let Billy Bob Thornton release the director’s cut of All The Pretty Horses that has his score in it! The movie is adapted from one of […]