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The Missing Ingredient In Your Guitar Playing… Is It You?

A few years back, I was asked to be the guitar tutor at a local music school. For one day each week, I would work with a handful of guitarists giving guidance and tr…

Video Lesson: How to Play the Ballad Strum

Video Lesson: How to Play The Ballad Strum Some of you will recall I did a free strumming series on YouTube a year or so ago. In it I covered some essential guitar s…

Funk Guitar Secrets Revealed…

In a recent lesson I was asked about my approach to playing funk guitar solos, which caused me to pause… because I’ve never really analysed what I do when playing fu…

Video: How to Play Wake Me Up by Avicii on Acoustic Guitar

Here’s a fun little number to learn. It’s called ‘Wake Me Up’ and it’s by Avicii. You’ve probably heard it before… It’s got everything – picking, cool chords, and a…

Peter Green Frank Zappa

Welcome to 1979, the last year of the great music decade that was the seventies! Here are two absolutely exemplary guitar instrumentals from two guitarists divided n…

Video: How to Play The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding on Acoustic Guitar

Learn how to play The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding on acoustic guitar. This is a great classic song for any guitarist to know… Whether you’re playing parties or y…

Robin Trower

Here’s English guitarist Robin Trower, formerly of Procul Harem, playing the title track from his 1974 classic rock album Bridge of Sighs. Robin plays his own signat…

English Blues, British guitar

Leaping about Ten years forward from the last post today sees us focusing upon the purely British talents of Mick Taylor and Keith Richards, Peter Green and Danny Ki…

Rock and Roll

Are you with The Jets, The Sharks, or the Hawks? 1960 the year in which the Studebaker Hawk I saw this morning was manufactured, was a big year – the U.S. sent troop…

The Easy Way to Learn Guitar Chords Fast

Looking for an easy way to learn guitar chords fast? Well, you’re in the right place son. Pull up a pew and let me ‘splain somethin’ to ya about a little known piece…

Blues Boy King

Ever wondered where it’s at ?It’s right here…check out the crossover between B.B.King here and Clapton’s live performance from the 1980 album Just One Night in Budok…

5 Reasons You Don’t Feel Like Playing Guitar

Did you wake up this morning totally uninspired… in a funk… like you just don’t feel like playing guitar today? Maybe you thought about heading to the guitar room, b…