Thoughts on Guitar Amp live EQ Settings
I play a lot of gigs of all kinds and styles of music , as I always enjoyed doing that. I always considered myself a bit of a 'session guitarist'…
Funk Guitar Comping Tips Pt2 Ghost Notes and Muted Notes
We have seen how in the previous 'Funk Tips' video we can build a simple line and make it Funky...here I show example using muted notes and ghost notes. Simple…
The Importance of Repertoire
In this short post I want to spend a few words on the importance of knowing tunes, either written by other musicians or by yourself. 'Repertoire' is often a fancy…
Tempo Memory – By Mike Outram
This is a guest post by Mike Outram. Mike is a London based guitarist, professor at Trinity College of Music and The Royal Academy of Music with performing credits including Tony Levin,…
Tips: play Giant Steps on guitar
Giant Steps has always been a challenging standard to play, in this video I give a few tips on how to approach this famous tune. The Chords (from the fake…
Basic Music Theory for Beginners Pt 2:on Guitar, Practical Application.
Basic theory knowledge pt 2: on Guitar! Let's now go back to the basic theory post (quite successful over 10k views just the day I posted!) , and let's see how…
Basic Music Theory for Beginners
Basic theory knowledge What follows is just a brief summary of basic theory and harmony necessary to understand practical applications on your instrument. The natural sounds are: English C D…
Chord Scale Relationship, a Practical Tip.
Throughout the last few years, every time I learnt a new chord I always tried to associate the right scale to cover that same area. Watch the video and you'll…
Getting into the studio by Guy Gardner
This is a guest post: by Guy Gardner. Gifted jazz pianist and author, Guy's début recording as a leader is 'Emma's Dream' with Bassist Jeff Clyne and Drummer Trevor Tomkins,…
Interval Color for Soloing
One of the ways to fight 'patterns' playing is to explore all the intervals you can find in a scale. It is a really easy concept you can apply to…