7 Things You Should Do Now to Begin Your Music Career

by Tom Hess

Why so many good musicians struggle to begin their music career.

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Vibrato Control

by Tom Hess

Vibrato is one of the most, if not the most, expressive tools that we guitarists have in...

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Seymour Duncan video guide: Installing pickups

Here's some hands on videos from Seymour Duncan about replacing pickups. There's three separate videos: 1 for replacing on a Gibson Les Pau...

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Aggressive Practicing

by Jamie Andreas

I have a student, who shall remain nameless but not blameless, who has oft...

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How to become a professional guitarist Part 4: Making it

by Tom Hess

You want to "make it" in the music business, right? Does it seem almost impossible to ma...

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How to become a professional guitarist Part 3: Acquire an accurate map

by Tom Hess

The basic map analogy used this article was inspired and adapted from author Steven Cove...

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How to become a professional guitarist Part 2: Facts and myths

by Tom Hess

To get the most out of this article, it is critical that you read Part 1 to this series ...

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How to become a professional guitarist Part 1: Facts and myths

by Tom Hess

"What does it take to become a professional guitar player and musician?" The answer rem...

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How to develop your own style - Part 2

by Tom Hess

As you can see in Part 1 of this article series, the concepts behind developing your own mu...

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Are You a Bad Student? … I was! - Part 1

by Tom Hess

I wasted years of valuable time, thousands of dollars and much frustration in my pursuit...

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Guitar players: Why not guitar synth?

by Brian Murphy

Guitar Synthesizers have been around for years. I remember seeing a picture of ...

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Blues guitar scale lesson: Common scales used in blues guitar - Part 2

Learning blues guitar can be frustrating if you don’t know what guitar scales to use. Because of that, in this blues guitar lesson we'll take...

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The pursuit of artistic greatness

by Tom Hess

The Pursuit of Artistic Greatness has been among us for thousands of years, yet it has e...

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Recording the guitar to a computer

by Brian Murphy

You want to record your guitar, make your own riffs, music, etc. You want to pl...

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Blues guitar scale lesson: Common scales used in blues guitar - Part 1

by Craig Bassett

In this blues guitar scale lesson we'll take a look at a really common guitar scale used for blues improvisation. T...

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An Analysis of “SUCK” - Part 1

by Tom Hess

I received the following e-mail from a young guitar player about 9 or 10 months ago...

"My friend and I started...

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