Many players don’t take the time to tune their ears before they play. Ear training is a crucial skill for any musician to have and it can greatly improve your musicianship if you have a skilled ear. When you are first learning the guitar the best and easiest way to train your ear is to […]
Lessons
How can I make money playing my guitar?
Becoming a professional musician is a long, hard road. However this is not to say it is impossible. Anyone with a desire to become successful at something can do it. This applies to music and any other field that you could want to apply yourself to. When I first decided that I wanted to dedicate […]
Listening and guitar II
After the last post on listening and guitar it’s time to focus upon one of the world’s greatest listeners, Evelyn Glennie, the Scottish virtuoso percussionist who has been profoundly deaf since age 12. This does not inhibit her ability to perform at the international level. She regularly plays barefoot for both live performances and studio […]
ShredNeck
If you’ve ever found yourself in a situation where having your guitar with you to practice or warm up on just wasn’t possible, the Shredneck might solve that in future instances. Touted as the ‘ultimate practice and warm up tool for guitarists’ if frees you from the need to have your ‘full sized’ guitar with […]
How to Tune your Guitar
As we already mentioned in past articles, we always receive emails from users with interesting questions. Some of you already know how to tune a guitar but some of you don’t! For you, here is a reminder on how you can tune your guitar. Learning how to tune your guitar is an important skill to […]
Agile Partners Guitar Tool Kit 2.0
If you haven’t already searched the slew of music apps available for the iPad, you won’t be surprised to learn that are some great guitar apps worth checking out. One such app is Agile Partners’ Guitar Tool Kit 2.0 featuring a number of essential tools any guitarist will benefit from. For a very reasonable fee […]
Playing the blues – its as easy as 1, 4, 5
Playin’ tha blues – it aint no big thing and it aint nobodies business if i do!
To play the blues you only have to count to five. Well holy schmoley Batman! That`s one number too darn many fo` some! Right , look out people because today’s post is about as much fun as a mouthful of sand – dry, uncomfortable and nitty-gritty; but just like your monster-in-law its a necessary evil if you want to reap the rewards!!!
Keeping track of your progress
In this post we look at an old but very relevant article by Ben Edwards from the early Jamorama days in which he discusses why it’s important to keep track of your progress. An old piano teacher of mine used to record my playing at different times throughout the year. At the end of the […]
Writing Songs
A very common question for every beginner guitarist: How do I find musical ideas? How do I write music? Not an easy question to answer I would say! One of the challenges all musicians have is finding ideas for music. When you are creating original music it is important to have steady stream of inspiration. […]
Practicing Vs. Playing
Today we are going to have a look at practicing versus playing. You may be wondering what this means exactly. To simply define it; playing is when you are out on stage or in the studio by yourself or with a band. Practicing is when you are in a room by yourself or with your […]