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Jerry Garcia and His Bluegrass-Influenced Picking

Jerry Garcia and His Bluegrass-Influenced Picking It’s been said that a guitar player’s personality comes through their picking attack.  Take a moment to think about it and you’ll see how…


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Restarting practice after an injury

Restarting practice after an injury A hand injury can be an existential crisis for a guitar player. I had the misfortune of slipping on the ice on Christmas Eve, landing by my outstretched…


Play More of the Music by Playing Solo Guitar

Play More of the Music by Playing Solo Guitar Solo guitar melody arrangements are a fun and satisfying way to play more of the music by yourself. Working up an arrangement also helps pull…


Guitar Resolutions for the New Year

Guitar Resolutions for the New Year Make this the year your resolutions lead to some musical resolution. In this age of the internet guitar multiverse, you could easily see more lesson…


Guitar Practice: Touch and Tone

Touch and Tone The best compliment I ever got on my tone was from the producer on a recording session. He said, “you’re the only guy I know who can make a Gibson sound like a Fender”.  He…


Triads and Melody

Guitar Practice: Triads and Melody Triads are chords in their simplest form. You might think that the “box” forms you learned early on are the simplest ones, but any major or minor chord…