What do Mariah Carey, Miles Davis and Steve Vai have in common? Ask a random person this question and it is likely they will give you an answer along the lines of: “Well, the three of them are (or were) celebrated, skilled musicians who have contributed a great deal to music, and have inspired a [...]
August 16, 2010
I believe that true guitar mastery can be directly judged by a player’s ability to improvise. You can learn all the technique you want, know all the theory, be able to play any song beautifully -no matter how technically difficult- with all its dynamic subtleties, and to me you’d be merely good. But to be [...]
August 13, 2010
Many times I will have a certain musical idea in my head, for example, a phrase that just popped into my mind. Or perhaps it’s part of a solo that I heard on the radio earlier. I want to be able to play it on the guitar but I am having a hard time figuring [...]
August 9, 2010
When I was a teenager I used to hang out with other kids in my school who also played an instrument. I remember one guy in particular, who was a guitar player, who I really looked up to. He had been taking lessons for a couple of years, and I had only just picked up [...]
August 24, 2010