Canadian guitarist Greigg Fraser spills the beans on essential reading for guitar students everywhere.
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Canadian guitarist Greigg Fraser spills the beans on essential reading for guitar students everywhere.
Fingerstylist Steve Pappas arranges a beautiful Irish ballad for guitar.
The formulation, explanation and practical use of a new guitar tuning method.
How to play the same rhythm-melodic sequence on the same beat, starting on a different sixteenth each time.
A brand new column by Billboard Magazine Top Rated Instructor Scott Morris.
A look at ways to create scales that are not taught, but invented.
Mike returns with some ideas on how to incorporate half-tones and other non-scale notes into your lines.
Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess teaches you the important aspects of a good string shake.
A bunch of ways to spice up our old pal: the Dorian mode.
Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas gives great advice to both new and experienced guitar instructors.
Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess shows you how to select a good guitar instructor (and how to avoid a bad one).
Mike returns with some fun arpeggio licks he uses in his own playing.
Greg Rapaport discusses the importance of maintaining your timing and rhythm while improvising.
Guitarist Williford pushes the envelope with 4 note per string legato licks and sequences.
Even more ways to spice up our old pal: the Dorian mode.
Greg Rapaport talks about developing some serious synergy between the picking and fretting hands.
It`s not Frankenstein or Dracula, simply more Greasy Fingers.
Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas talks about the sticky topic that will energize your practice sessions.
How to personalize and colorize our old friend - the blues.
Learning the fretboard through scales by Mike Campese.
Using harmonics to get a great shimmering sound, from an award winning guitarist.
The changes to John Coltrane`s classic can result in inspiration for original solos.
How to develop the ability to use right hand figers along with the pick.
Steve Pappas is back with another piece for solo fingerstyle guitar originating from Ireland.
How to control a potentially rebellious picking hand.
A complete primer on these amazing scales.
How does anybody know what key they’re in? Let's find out.
Systems and ways to organize large clumps of knowledge in the area of chord construction.
Gain control over your instrument and improve your ear for harmonies.
Greg Rapaport discusses advanced tapping forms.
More ways to master the fretboard through the use of the pentatonic scale.
How you can add something different to your solos to sound a little more `out`.
Are you aurally challanged? Learn how to improve this vital skill.
Steve Pappas is back with a beautiful Christmas carol arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar.
How to view frustration as a positive thing. No, really.
How to avoid wasting your time learning things that will not help you achieve your goals.
Know who you are playing with before you play any super big, wide sounding chords.
Guitarist Jeff Scheetz` own blistering version of this holiday chestnut.
Get a grip, pencilneck! A solid way to strengthen your fretting hand.
How to expand your soloing arsenal by reworking some familiar ideas.
Sooner or later, you`ll want to make your solos more exciting. Start by making up new scale sequences.
Italian guitarist Salvatore Vecchio with a column on mixing various pentatonic scales to achieve something fresh.