As a guitar teacher I get asked a lot of questions. What's the proper string gauge for a Fender Telecaster? What's the easiest song to learn on guitar? What's the best way to learn barre chords? While I share in…
As a guitar teacher I get asked a lot of questions. What's the proper string gauge for a Fender Telecaster? What's the easiest song to learn on guitar? What's the best way to learn barre chords? While I share in…
Let's face it. Alternate tunings are a problem that isn't going away. We guitarists work so hard for many years to learn a vocabulary of chords, scales and arpeggios in standard tuning. We agonize over our guitar's intonation until we…
Sometimes it is the small things that make a big difference in your guitar playing. I generally don't do a lot of product endorsements, but every now and then I find something that I think is worth sharing. This is…
Because I can’t afford to waste my valuable practice time, I always try to make sure that whatever routines I am practicing incorporate three important things: technique, theory, and musicality. Experienced guitarists need to integrate more and more topics into…
One very common musical exercise that I have noticed all the best guitar teachers recommend is to sing what you play. A lot of instrumental players tend to think that singing is for singers and that they don’t need to…
One question I ask all of my beginning guitar students is, “What made you decide to learn guitar?” Over the years I have noticed that the responses to this question reveal a few common goals we all share when it…
This is just a quick post that will hopefully answer a question that I get asked all the time. The short answer is: “Yes.” A slightly longer answer would be: “Yes. Definitely.” Rather than try to explain to you why…
In a previous post I talked about the Florida Guitar Foundation and their monthly Classical Guitar Open-Mic Nights. The performances are held at the Miami Conservatory of Music in Coconut Grove. Last week was my first opportunity to go and…
This weekend the Florida Guitar Foundation is hosting an open mic night at the Miami Conservatory of Music. I have signed up to perform “Classical Gas” by Mason Williams. I am a little nervous because I really never perform classical…
The Blues is one of the most fascinating developments in the entire history of music. At once profoundly simple and staggeringly complex, the blues seems to capture the very essence of pain, struggle, and the whole of human experience. After…