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How To Make A Great Guitar Solo

By Tom Hess

It’s not what you play, it’s how you play it. There are lots of ways to make guitar sol...

How To Improve Your Guitar Technique - Part 2

By Tom Hess

If you are still suffering from sloppy guitar playing, the cause is likely unwanted string ...

How to Advance Your Lead Guitar Solos

By Mike Philippov

If you are like most guitarists, you probably, at one point or another have...

How To Improve Your Guitar Technique - Part 1

by Tom Hess

Do you want to improve your guitar technique, play guitar cleaner, eliminate sloppy playing...

Here is what's wrong with YOUR sweep picking technique

by Mike Philippov

If you began to read this article, chances are that you have been working on yo...

5 Big Mistakes You Should Avoid When Teaching Beginning Guitar Students

by Tom Hess

Do your beginning guitar students usually progress slowly with you? Do they sometimes ‘ge...

Why You Struggle To Get Guitar Students

by Tom Hess

Do you struggle to attract a lot of new guitar students? Do your guitar teaching ads and we...

3 Reasons Why You May Not Be Getting Big Results From Taking Guitar Lessons

by Tom Hess

Have you ever tried taking guitar lessons and ended up quitting in fru...

How To Improve Your Guitar Teaching Business. Eliminate These 9 Guitar Teaching Mistakes

by Tom Hess

Are you struggling to be a highly successful guitar teacher? Do you want to h...

Tapping: Vertical and Diagonal Patterns

by Ysrafel

One of the most popular techniques for lead guitar playing is tapping. Many guitarists have a...

How to Make the Right Contacts in the Music Industry

by Tom Hess

You know that making the right music industry connections is a key factor in developing a s...

Improving Your Phrasing - Part 2

by Nick Layton

In my first article, “Improving Your Phrasing, Part I,” I explai...

What is Your Sweep Picking Type?

by Ysrafel

Sweep picking is one of the most desired and sought after techniques in the current ge...

Improving Your Phrasing - Part 1

by Nick Layton

Many times you will hear or read about professional guitar players talking ...

Are you having trouble playing cleanly? Here’s why ….

by Ysrafel

Practice your techniques slowly and build up speed. With slow practice and accuracy, speed wi...

The Attitude of Mastery

by Jamie Andreas

We all experience problems when we practice. ...

Pentamodal Idea

By Paul Tauterouff

Note: Prior knowledge of the five Minor Pentatonic box patterns and the...

Why haven't you reached your music career goals?

By Paul Tauterouff

Seems like a simple enough question, but can you answer it? I have read and be...

Taking Your Guitar Technique To The Next Level

by Mike Philippov

If you are not yet playing guitar at the level you desire, th...

10 Ways To Get Musical Pain Relief

by Tom Hess

Are you happy and fulfilled with your level of musical skills? Can you hon...

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...

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...

Aggressive Practicing

by Jamie Andreas

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

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...

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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