How To Learn Challenging Guitar Chord Changes
One of the most fundamental skills to develop if you want to play guitar well is the ability to change chords accurately and reliably.
How To Massively Improve Your Rhythm Guitar Playing
{linkto https://www.guitarmetal.com/music-articles/item/202-improve-rhythm-guitar.html} Have you ever listened to the rhythm guitar ideas of your favorite bands and wanted to make riffs of your own? If you are like most guitar players, you would love to play riffs like your favorite bands but have a hard time creating great sounding rhythm guitar ideas.
How To Avoid Bad Guitar Advice – With Tom Hess
{linkto https://www.guitarmetal.com/music-articles/item/213-avoid-bad-guitar-advice.html} Do you have the habit of looking through Google or YouTube trying to find good guitar advice? If so, you are like almost every guitar player these days. Most guitarists get nearly all of their information for learning guitar directly from the internet.
Edward Cupler – Forcing The Major 3rd Improv Solo
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Improving Your Phrasing – Part II
In my first article, "Improving Your Phrasing, Part I," I explained what phrasing is and why it is important for guitarists to develop this critical skill. I also showed you a few ways in which you could start the process of improving your own skills. Hopefully, you’ve spent some time thinking about some of the…
Getting Results From Your Guitar Practice
Maximizing Practicing Efficiency In my previous articles (“Natural Talent” and “Reasons for Not Reaching Your Goals”, I talked about some non-musical aspects that often prevent people from reaching their goals. With that said, there are also a great many things that are specific to musical training that also make a huge difference. In this essay,…
How Many Guitar Chords Do I Need To Know?
Guitar chords, (note groups played specifically on a guitar,) differ only from other types of chords by virtue of instrument; they're simply a series of three or more notes played together. These notes don't necessarily have to be played simultaneously, however. Broken chords (also referred to as arpeggios) are three or more notes that aren't…
Learning How To Play Guitar Quicker Easier Using Tutorial DVD’s
When you pick up your guitar you want to start to be able to play your favorite songs as soon as you can. Let's face it - learning to play the guitar should be fun and not boring or frustrating. Nowadays there are so many methods to teach you how to play the guitar and…
The 80/20 Law – Maximum Results With Minimum Time
by Tom Hess www.tomhess.net Have you ever noticed how some players, who practice less, seem to make more progress than others who practice more? That can be really frustrating for people in the second group! If you are like most guitarists, the following two statements are approximately true (whether you are aware of it or…
Tips For Beginner Guitar Lessons
Does this sound familiar? A guitar case lying around in your house doing nothing but gather dust. Chances are that despite your best intentions, you have one and probably never learned how to play, or started taking beginner guitar lessons and soon lost your enthusiasm, or something else got in the way. Taking beginner guitar…
~ Begin at the End ~
One of the most valuable lessons to be learned, in terms of achieving goals, is to begin at the end. When working towards any goal, most people begin at the beginning (sounds logical doesn’t it?). The problem with starting at the beginning is most of us are focused on where we are right now. It…
Are You a Bad Student? I was! – Part 1
Wasted Years I wasted years of valuable time, thousands of dollars and much frustration in my pursuit to become a great guitarist and "make it" as a professional musician. If I knew then what I know now, I might have been able to turn pro a lot faster than I actually did. The mistakes I…
SPEED GUITAR MASTER – Part 1
angel@angel-zamora.com www.angel-zamora.com Have you ever wanted become a speed guitar master? If you are reading this article, the chances are the answer to the question is yes. The problem is that many guitar players want to be shredders to some extent, but don't know what to do to achieve this. It is like a mystery…
How to Avoid Musical Burn Out
Do you sometimes find it difficult to stay focused and motivated to practice or play music? Most musicians I know (including myself) have had at least one significant period in their lives when they have experienced musical burn out – a general feeling of being uninspired, unmotivated, bored, or just plain lazy! I’m not necessarily…
Are You An Unhappy Musician?
10 Ways To Get Musical Pain Relief by Tom Hess Are You happy and fulfilled with Your level of musical skills? Can You honestly say that You have reached all of Your musical goals? Has Your playing consistently gotten better during the time You have been playing? I don’t know about You, but when I…
The Pursuit of Artistic Greatness
The Pursuit of Artistic Greatness has been among us for thousands of years, yet it has eluded most of us. It seems almost impossible to pursue that which we can hardly define.(artistic greatness).
How to Become a Professional Guitarist & Musician ~ Part 4 ~ “Making it”
You want to “make it” in the music business, right? Does it seem almost impossible to make it happen? The perceived realities of the music industry seem too harsh, too risky, too difficult and too unstable to pursue a lucrative long term music career.
Scandalous Behavior: What Happens At The Afterparty, Stays At The Afterparty!
Musicians work hard. They write for days. They rehearse like fiends. Drag heavy gear here and there. Sweat like pigs on stage. Put marathon hours in at the recording studio. Work their fingers to the bone…well, at least into some pretty gnarly calluses. But, musicians also like to play hard: booze, drugs, groupies, and trashed…
