How to Improve Your Sweep Picking Technique
Sweep picking isn't easy. But if you look at the pitfalls you're likely to run into, that can go a long way toward making this technique work for you. Mike Philippov examines the aspects of sweep...
View ArticleHow To Improve Your Guitar Technique – Part 1
Sloppy technique leads to sloppy playing and you can especially notice sloppy playing on the electric guitar! Tom Hess looks at the three basic problem areas and addresses two of them in depth in this...
View ArticleHow to Advance Your Lead Guitar Solos
Mike Philippov details five important steps to making memorable and interesting guitar solos. These are not only easy to follow, they also make a lot of sense! This post first appeared on Music...
View ArticleGuitar Teaching: Lesson One
If you have read our lesson "Could You Teach Guitar?" and finished with a resounding "Yes!" then the next question is "How?" This article hopes to answer that question with a detailed look at how to...
View ArticleHow To Improve Your Guitar Technique – Part 2
In the second article in this series, Tom examines the sloppines of extraneous string noise and demonstrates some excellent muting techniques that can benefit advanced players as well as beginners,...
View ArticleHow To Shred Like Paul Gilbert
One way of developing speed, whether you're a shredder or not, is to combine your picking and legato (slurring) techniques. Mike Philippov lays out some step-by-step exercises to help you gain both...
View ArticleTeaching Chords To Beginning Guitar Students
In his latest article, Tom explores some of the problems that beginners tend to have making and changing guitar chords. Whether you're a guitar teacher or just someone starting out on the guitar,...
View ArticleCould You Teach Guitar?
Have you ever thought about teaching but then thought that you might not be qualified? Let's dispel a lot of the myths about what it takes to teach guitar. This post first appeared on Music Careers, ©...
View ArticleImprove Your Guitar Teaching
Sometimes the desire to fix every problem a student may have all at once may cause even more problems. Tom Hess describes how to break down a bad habit so that both teacher and student can tackle it in...
View ArticleHere Is Why Your Guitar Picking Speed Isn’t Improving…
If you aren’t playing at the speed of at least 200 BPM in sixteenth notes, Mike Philippov’s latest article will greatly help you to get closer to this goal. This post first appeared on Music Careers, ©...
View ArticleHow to Improve Your Sweep Picking Technique
If you began to read this article, chances are that you have been working on your sweep picking technique and struggled with improving it. If this sounds like you, then I want to show you how to avoid...
View ArticleHow To Improve Your Guitar Technique – Part 1
Do you want to improve your guitar technique, play guitar cleaner, eliminate sloppy playing and unwanted string noise? Sloppy guitar technique is a very common problem. Many guitarists have been asking...
View ArticleHow to Advance Your Lead Guitar Solos
If you are like most guitarists, you probably, at one point or another have found it difficult to improvise solos on guitar. Even if you possess a high level of technique and good knowledge of music,...
View ArticleGuitar Teaching: Lesson One
If you have read Nick Minnion’s article “Could You Teach Guitar?” and finished with a resounding “Yes!” then the next question is “How?” This article hopes to answer that question with a detailed look...
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How To Improve Your Guitar Technique – Part 2
If you are still suffering from sloppy guitar playing, the cause is likely unwanted string noise. For some guitar players, improving guitar technique may have nothing to do with how they are playing...
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How To Shred Like Paul Gilbert
Are you stuck in a rut with your guitar playing? Do you get tired of playing the same old sequences and licks using the same articulation? If you answered “yes,” then I am going to show you how to...
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Teaching Chords To Beginning Guitar Students
A very common and frustrating problem beginning guitar students face is not being able to change chords quickly, fluently and musically. This may be frustrating for you, the guitar teacher, too, when...
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Could You Teach Guitar?
Imagine going through week after week earning more than enough money to maintain a fun lifestyle, but not even noticing that you have done any work. That’s what being a guitar teacher means to me. I...
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Improve Your Guitar Teaching
Although there are many different ways you can help your students become better guitar players and musicians, we can group almost everything you do into three main categories: 1. Inspiring and...
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Here Is Why Your Guitar Picking Speed Isn’t Improving…
Good News and Bad News First, the good news: You can develop fast picking speed on guitar, if you have fully functioning limbs and a desire to succeed. More great news: you do not have to practice...
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