Getting a good pick can make a world of difference when you're playing guitar. It's also fun to try different picks for different playing scenarios. When they look, feel, sound and play as well as Swiss Picks? That's a home run. Check out my full review of their lineup.

I love warming up with pentatonic box shape patterns. They're familiar, and easy to use when writing quick warm up riffs. Check out this awesome E min Pentatonic riff you can use to get your fingers going.

I'll never forget the day I met Les Paul. Working as a mid twenties salesperson in New Jersey, I got to meet this legend of the guitar. With all of the competition in the guitar world right now, Les taught me a valuable lesson.

It's helpful to look at professions outside of music to see how other folks get so good at what they do. In this post I help tie together basketball and guitar, with some helpful tips on how you can be better today.

I won't even try and compete with the enormous amount of news that'll be coming out of San Jose today. Apple is holding their World Wide Developers Conference, and it's typically one of their most exciting events.

String skipping can turn run of the mill riffs into really exciting ones. The technique also helps you break out of the box of playing scales up and down the fretboard. Practicing string skipping in your warm up can help you be more accurate as your practice session goes on. Today I want to show you how to improve your string skipping by using a familiar set of patterns that you may already know.

Getting lost on the fretboard is one of the most discouraging things while playing. Today we're going to learn a bunch of different examples to help you never get lost on the fretboard again! All the examples use the octave method to find your way around the fretboard, whether that be high up on the guitar neck or down low.