If you want to start playing slide guitar, I would recommend experimenting with different slide guitar tunings. There are a variety of these different tunings, and each one has its own sound and feel. Not only this, but each tuning alters the relationship between the strings of your guitar in...
In my opinion, learning how to connect the 5 pentatonic shapes across your fretboard is one of the best ways to improve your lead guitar playing. It will help you to improvise freely, to create interesting blues guitar solos and to navigate comfortably across the entire neck of your guitar....
Guitar practice is difficult. In fact, I would argue that creating an effective guitar practice routine, and then sticking to that routine is one of the biggest challenges that most guitar players face. For even though all guitarists know that they should practice, I think the majority of players struggle...
Over the course of his career, B.B. King crafted some of the best blues guitar solos of all time. A huge part of this came down to his soft touch, signature vibrato technique and his beautiful blues tone. Yet it was also down to his phrasing and note choices. B.B....
Learning to navigate around your guitar fretboard is difficult. In fact, the challenge that it presents is so great, that most guitarists don't even attempt it. And for some guitarists, just thinking about how and where to start with learning the logic of the guitar fretboard causes them to feel...
If you want to create effective blues guitar solos, I would strongly recommend learning the blues scale. As the name suggests, this is a scale that creates a distinctly 'bluesy' sound. And as such - it has been used to great effect by countless blues and blues rock guitarists. In...
If you want to create varied and interesting blues guitar solos, I would strongly recommend getting to grips with the major pentatonic scale. As you might have guessed from the name, the major pentatonic scale is closely related to the more commonly used minor pentatonic scale. The latter is a...
If you want to play lead guitar, then learning the minor pentatonic scale is one of the best places to start. The minor pentatonic scale is by far the most commonly occurring scale in blues and rock music. It has been used to craft a huge number of famous riffs...
Record producer Mike Vernon once described Peter Green as the 'very best blues guitarist' that England has ever produced. That is saying something, considering that Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page - amongst others - all grew up calling England home. Yet it was a sentiment that was shared by...
Playing the guitar quickly has never been a natural strength of mine. For some reason still unknown to me, my fingers just don’t want to move very fast. Over the years I have tried a huge range of different guitar exercises to try and get quicker. But despite these efforts, it...
If you want to start playing slide guitar, I would recommend...
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The pickups that you use in your guitar play a fundamental...
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In my opinion, learning how to connect the 5 pentatonic...
Guitar practice is difficult. In fact, I would argue that...
The world of guitar slides is not easy to navigate. As is...
When it comes to choosing guitar strings, players seem to...
If you want to get started playing slide guitar, the first...
If you want to dial in a killer blues tune, I would...
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