If you’re just learning guitar, getting started with playing solos might seem daunting. It’s a big change to go from strumming chords to your favorite songs, to playing lead lines. The best thing is to start out easy, but not too easy. The more you challenge yourself, the better a guitarist you’ll become. Just remember to take everything in bite size chunks as you’re learning. To help you get started with solos, I’m recommending a couple that I’d learn if I was just getting started - one from three different genres. The feeling of learning and playing lead is amazing. Let’s get into it.
The last time we talked about guitar books, I gave you some great recommendations that work whether you’re a beginner or a more advanced guitar player.
Today I’m back with 6 more recommendations for books that are sure to help you along your journey in becoming a great guitarist.
Books are one of the best values out there, because they contain lifetimes of knowledge for about 20-30 bucks.
Welcome to week one of the Song in September Challenge. If you’re not sure what the challenge is, at the end of August I asked you to join me in writing, recording, and mixing just one song in the month of September. I’m going to share my progress with how it’s going, and I’d love you to share your progress too.
This week, it's all about putting the "bones" of the song together. In this post I'll show you how to get started.
Being an Ernie Ball player for over a decade has allowed me to get an idea of how their strings have progressed and how they hold up. When I heard Ernie Ball was releasing an "unbreakable" version of their strings called the Paradigms, I knew I had to review them.
In this review I compare the Ernie Ball Paradigms to a standard set of Slinkys. Check out the audio examples and decide for yourself!
Guitar Pro 7 is here. In this review I show you some of the guitar specific features Arobas has added, why this version is easier than ever for songwriters, how the look and feel of the program has received an overhaul, and why it's the right choice for guitar players who want a fully featured songwriting program that won't break the bank.
