The 7 Most Common Beginner Mistakes on Guitar

Colin Daniel has taught over 5,000 students. These are the 7 beginner guitar mistakes he sees most, and how to fix each one.

This will make a MASSIVE difference in your guitar playing

I talk to guitar players all the time who are looking for a legitimate way to make some massive progress on the guitar. Let’s face it… we don’t all have 8 hours per day to dedicate to practicing guitar (like Steve Vai did when he was starting out). So how can a normal guy or […]

The World’s Ugliest Guitar Player

So in my “travels” I recently came across an article talking about the Blobfish – recently voted as the world’s ugliest animal. Anyhow, this Blobfish looks for all intents and purposes like a pinkish blob with eyes, a nose like thing, and a mouth. Basically, it sits about 900 meters underwater, looking for stuff to […]

One of the most important guitar lessons I ever learned

Way back when I was in highschool, just learning how to play guitar, I distinctly remember spending an entire afternoon playing La Bamba on guitar. It was great – the whole song is three chords, and even better – we were playing them all using the E major bar chord shape. E, then barred at […]

The most self-conscious guitar player in the room

I was talking to this guy named Chris – he told me a story I’ve heard all too many times before… Basically he loves to play guitar with his mates, but his big problem is if there isn’t a page of chords in front of him, he’s totally lost. He kind of gets by, bit […]

1 Song You Can’t Touch

I was talking to a friend the other day who picked up guitar in the last year. He knows that I teach, and so we got to talking about guitars, and how his playing was progressing. He described to me how he goes about learning new guitar songs: basically he searches Youtube to see if […]