Every guitar player likes to talk about their axe, so I thought it might be fun to look for 50 of the strangest, most bizarre guitars ever created for us guitar players to talk about. Enjoy, and ask your friends which one they think is the weirdest! Let’s face it, if you are going to […]
The Bm chord. It’s the one that makes beginners quit and intermediates swear. You’re cruising through a song in D or G, feeling good, and then—boom—B minor shows up and everything falls apart. Here’s the thing: the standard Bm barre chord is genuinely difficult. But there are easier ways to play it that sound just […]
One of the questions I often get is this: Jonathan, how can I connect the different scale patterns so that I can play across the whole fretboard, and not just a few frets of it? Well, the method I teach in guitar scales lessons uses just three main scale patterns to cover the neck. These […]
A little while ago I received a Planet Waves O-Port in the mail from the kind folks over at D’Addario. I was eager to install it on my acoustic guitar, as it promised to improve both the quality and quantity of sound that comes out of it. Installing the O-Port is a fairly simple process, […]
Today (June 9th, 2011) would have been Les Paul’s 96th birthday, and Google is honoring that with a cool gadget on the top of their search engine, that looks like this: Google regularly creates these little doodles of their logo, but this is probably one of the cooler ones they’ve come up with. If you […]
Here’s a more advanced guitar lessons for those of you who are ready for it! In this lesson Colin will give you some ideas on using 3rds from the G major scale. You’ll have to know your scales pretty well to follow this, as Colin moves around using the whole fretboard, though he’s also using […]
Copying a lick is the easy part. Stringing licks into a solo that sounds intentional, instead of just running up and down the box, is the part nobody teaches. Four free video lessons on the timing and phrasing that turn the pentatonic shape your licks come from into something that actually sounds like music.