Am I Too Old to Learn Guitar?
Am I Too Old to Learn Guitar I sometimes get asked the question: “Am I too old to learn guitar?” Usually that question comes from someone who contacts me to start lessons, but who is worried that there’s an age limit to learning an instrument, beyond which learning guitar becomes too difficult. Needless to say:
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How to play Joe Satriani’s Tears In The Rain
How to play Joe Satriani’s “Tears In The Rain” In today’s blog, we’ll cover the first half of Joe Satriani’s “Tears In The Rain”. You can find this song on Joe’s “The Extremist” album. I strongly recommend you get this fantastic album. Some of the benefits you’ll get from learning “Tears In The Rain”: it
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Guitar Essentials
My New Book “Guitar Essentials” I recently published my first book “Guitar Essentials”. This book had been in the making for many years, and I finally published it. The book is jam-packed with practical exercises and drills that produce amazingly fast, strong results in mastering the covered material. The lessons are snapshots from my guitar
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Cool Guitar Gear and Musicians You Want To Know About
Cool Guitar Gear and Musicians You Want To Know About Klaus Nomi: David Bowie’s I recently read this really great article about Klaus Nomi. He’s most well-know for being the backing singer on David Bowie’s famous SNL performance. More importantly though: Klaus was a ground-breaking entertainer, who was too far ahead of his time or
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Why You Want To Embrace 2nd Intervals
Cool Guitars, Innovative Guitar Ideas, And Some Silly Memes I wrote this free lesson blog for the many students who strongly dislike the sound of 2nd intervals. It’s interesting that world-class, top-level composers and musicians embrace and love the dissonance of 2nd intervals with the same level of intensity that guitar students dislike them with.
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