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It appears that a group of students and a professor in the UK have created an algorithm that can analyze the audio file of a song, and spit out a score that indicates the… [more]
A common trajectory that many beginning guitar players follow goes something like this: They learn the basic chords, and a few songs as well. They learn bar chords, to st… [more]
Have you ever thought of music as being a language? I know a lot of players that think of it that way, and it can be a powerful analogy to help you learn. Today I thought… [more]
I don’t know if you caught this in the news or not, but Gibson has had some problems with some wood that they’ve imported (been doing it the same way for year… [more]
Every guitar player likes to talk about their axe, so I thought it might be fun to look for 50 of the strangest, most bizarre guitars ever created for us guitar players t… [more]
From time to time I recommend other teachers’ guitar courses. If you’re on my newsletter, you’ve no doubt seen me doing this from time to time. It has a… [more]
Today (June 9th, 2011) would have been Les Paul’s 96th birthday, and Google is honoring that with a cool gadget on the top of their search engine, that looks like t… [more]
So it’s my 30th Birthday this weekend, and that gave me the bright idea of having a 30% off everything sale! After all, how many times do you turn 30? I wanted to t… [more]
Improvising is probably definitely my favorite aspect of playing the guitar. When I used to play trumpet, there was very little improvising involved; we would simply play… [more]
If you’ve been watching my guitar videos here for any amount of time, then you’ve probably seen my acoustic guitar in action. It’s an old (1975) Takamin… [more]
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