Many people start off learning to play the guitar with a lot of bad ideas already in place. In this short lesson, Colin Daniel will address 7 of the most common mistakes that beginners make on the guitar. Keep in mind that his list is drawn up from the experience of having taught over 5000 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Three free videos. The fretboard isn't twenty separate positions, it's one system that keeps repeating. Once you see that, the chord shapes you already know stop being mystery moves and start being the where of something bigger. I'll show you in about fifteen minutes total.