Blog archives for November, 2011

Today marks the single biggest online shopping day of the year. It’s bigger than Black Friday and all other gift-giving holidays by far. I try to make this blog full of great guitar posts to help you learn and grow (and I think I’ve done a decent job so far), but we’d be pretty inept [...]

Our Student Forum is full of student recordings and videos. New ones are posted daily. It’s a lot of fun to look through a certain student’s history of recordings and hear how far they’ve come from that first song they recorded and posted for us. I thought I would collect a bunch of these and [...]

A few weeks ago, I traveled to Cuba to help run a music and arts camp for a week.  This trip was birthed when we were contacted about bringing certain people to train at a camp for music and arts teachers in Cuba. They requested vocal instruction, guitar instruction, and someone to do drama. So, [...]

Here’s your chance to get that Mississippi Delta Blues sound!  With some simple ideas to improvise, learn how to create your own acoustic blues tune.  Stop playing other guitarists ideas for today and start playing the music that is inside of you. Enjoy!

The best guitar teacher you will ever have is your own creativity.  There is just something about figuring out something on your own that solidifies it immediately into your memory.  A guitarist gathers information from a variety of sources but it’s only when that information is used and acted upon does it start to become [...]