Category Archives: Guitar Lessons

I’ve seen it so many times I’ve lost count. I’ve seen it in magazines, on websites, even in private lessons (when I used to take private lessons). It may be the single most detrimental assumption to improving your guitar technique, yet it still exists today as one of the main components of conventional guitar wisdom.Continue Reading

Aussie guitar virtuoso Chris Brooks has started a series on his YouTube channel called ‘Guitar Licks on Demand’ where you, the fans, get to choose something you would like Chris to teach in a short video. I asked Chris to teach the opening riff to ‘Feeding The Myth’ from his album ‘The Axis Of AllContinue Reading

Compression can be a very subtle effect, especially on electric guitar or it can be used in extreme fashions. There are many things to consider when using a compressor on a guitar. For instance, when miking a tube amp that is overdriven, the tubes are actually compressing the signal, so there is really no needContinue Reading

Dream Theatre’s John Petrucci sits down with Trivium’s Matt Heafy to talk about various guitar techniques. The first two available focus on picking techniques where John is guiding the already very capable Matt Heafy on how to improve his technique. Part 1: Alternate Picking Part 2: Sweep Picking Part 3: Part 4:

In this video Andy Timmons explains his approach to arranging melodies to improve your compositions by taking examples from his new album Andy Timmons Band plays Sgt Pepper for http://www.axemagazine.it/. via Truth In Shredding

In the pro audio world with so many choices and options on recording instruments, microphones have become a paramount ingredient. Mics are the true translation of guitar tones to recording and should be as accurate as possible. Every guitarist wants to record the sound he hears in the room through the amp, the question becomesContinue Reading

This is a new montly feature by Brian Tarquin, a Multi Emmy Award winning composer/guitarist and owner of Jungle Room Studios. It’s the age-old question of how to keep your guitar in the mix, without loosing the integrity of the tone. Engineers have been grappling with this for years to have it stand tall inContinue Reading

I really wish I lived in the US, although I’m not sure my wife would agree to me forking out a couple of grand for a guitar holiday but I think this one would be well worth it. Alex Skolnick (Testament, The Alex Skolnick Trio) and Chris Broderick (Megadeth) are hosting a 5 day winterContinue Reading

Great news, Guthrie Govan now has a column in Guitar World called “Professor Shred” this is the first installment from the October 2011 issue of Guitar World. In the video, Govan reminds shredders that musicality always comes first, among many other helpful pieces of advice.

Almost every guitar player dreams about doing music full-time for a living. There are different ways to make this happen, including performing with a band and doing session work (covered in this excellent article by Michael Dolce), but I think most guitar players overlook the fastest and easiest way to fire your boss and makeContinue Reading