Is Sight-Reading On Guitar a Necessary Skill?
Sight-Reading On Guitar: Necessary Skill? It all depends. What are your goals? What do you want to learn on guitar? Where would you like to be on guitar 5 years from now, 10, 20 years from now? If none of your answers to this include: Become a top level guitar or music teacher Join jazz … Is Sight-Reading On Guitar a Necessary Skill?
Tips and Tricks To Make Guitar Solos More Melodic & Colorful
How To Make Guitar Solos More Melodic How do you make guitar solos more melodic? There are 2 main answers to that question. 1) Outline the chords better. For example: avoid hitting too many F notes on a C chord (the F clashes with the E note in a C chord) 2) Play less scalar … Tips and Tricks To Make Guitar Solos More Melodic & Colorful
Posted in Harmony/Chords, Melody/Improv, Music Theory Tagged arpeggios, guitar solos, improvisation, listening skills, melodic curve
How to play Steve Winwood’s “I’m A Man” On Guitar
How to play Stevie Winwood’s “I’m A Man” On Guitar Stevie already sounded like a 40-year-old black soul singer when he was a teenager. Here’s the studio version: The song only has 2 song sections: verse and chorus. It keeps alternating between those 2 song sections. As you might be able to detect by ear, … How to play Steve Winwood’s “I’m A Man” On Guitar
Multi FX vs. Pedalboards. What is the best choice?
Multi FX vs. Pedalboards For all too many years I used to be a tone purist, so to speak. What I mean by that, is that there was absolutely no way I was ever going to use Multi-FX processors. I LOVED my amazing-sounding stompboxes too much. I had strong feelings and opinions against what I … Multi FX vs. Pedalboards. What is the best choice?
Posted in Guitar Gear Tagged AX8, Fractal Audio, Guitar Effects, guitar pedals, multi-effects processors, pedal boards, stompboxes
Nice Guitars and Fun Musician Stuff
Silly and Funny Memes Congra… God Creates. If The Earth Was Flat Keith Urban Knock It Off I have no idea who Kevin is. This meme must be referring to something in popular culture that I’m not aware of. Yet, I LOVE Joe Pesci, and just seeing his face on this meme, made it funny … Nice Guitars and Fun Musician Stuff
