By now, you may be familiar with - or at least heard of - the CAGED System. CAGED is a five-pattern system based on the chords C, A, G, E, and D (major) with the idea that these chord shapes are...
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I have the joyous privilege of being a musician and a father. Having been a professional guitarist since 2003 teaching countless kids how to play guitar, I always knew I wanted to someday teach my...
Prospective students often ask me how difficult learning the guitar is compared with other instruments. I typically get this question from piano players or folks looking to choose between guitar and...
Learning guitar can be a frustrating experience, in fact so much so that I have written a few articles around the subject in previous months. For example, I wrote 11 Tips To Beat Guitar Learning...
I became a professional guitarist almost by default. I am a class-A guitar nerd, obsessed with the guitar in such a way that there was no other course of action but to play and be around guitars for...
In the advanced stages of your guitar playing adventures, new doors open up for rhythmic possibilities. The brain moves out of the way and a musical soul takes its place, meaning thinking stops and...