Apps & Tech 6 Best Guitar Lesson Apps For Your Phone Guitar lesson apps make learning guitar more convenient than ever. While guitar lessons are easier to access than ever before from your laptop (and there are a lot of great lessons available from big players like Fender, and from local guitarists on places like Teachable), the odds are that you
Guitars & Gear Guitar Review: Orangewood Guitars New Highland Sage (Grand Auditorium Cutaway) Orangewood Guitars recently announced the launch of the Highland, a long-awaited all solid guitar collection to add to the lineup of Orangewood's high-quality and reasonably priced acoustic guitars. Orangewood describes the new line this way: Inspired by rustic timelessness and sleek playability, Highland is Orangewood’s collection of
Album Announcements Album Review: PSALM by Dan Arcamone Dan Arcamone just released his new jazz album, PSALM - a trio collaboration with Panagiotis Andreou on bass, Steve Pruitt on drums, and Arcamone taking care of guitar and compositions. The album is inspired by John Coltrane's iconic four-part album, A Love Supreme. Arcamone describe's it
Album Announcements Album Review: "Folding Space" by Spencer Elliott Folding Space is Spencer Elliott’s third release with Candyrat Records and this newest effort displays his continuing growth as a composer and showcases his focus on instrumental story-telling.
Knowledge Base Why Is The Guitar Tuned The Way It Is? Why is there that odd gap between the G and B string on a guitar in standard tuning that breaks that pattern? Specifically, why are most of the strings tuned a fourth a part while G and B are a major third apart? While it seems like it would'
Learn Guitar Top 10 Fingerstyle Guitar Courses on TrueFire TrueFire.com is a massive, online center for guitar lessons. It's what Guitar Player magazine has called, "the planet's largest and most comprehensive selection of online guitar lessons." And in the area of fingerstyle guitar, they deserve particular attention for carrying a series of
Fingerstyle Speed Techniques in Fingerstyle Guitar Many players transition from using a traditional pick to playing fingerstyle guitar because it gives them better control, tone, and connection with the instrument. But fingerstyle can make it feel harder to play fast lead lines and melodies. So how do you keep up the speed on single-line melodies and
Guitars & Gear Top 5 Best Acoustic Guitar Strings The acoustic guitar is a very transparent instrument - what you play is what you hear. There’s not a lot of digital effects to hide behind. So choosing the best acoustic guitar strings is important. Now, you can go down the rabbit hole of obscure acoustic guitar string choices.
Acoustic Guitar A Very Useful Gypsy Jazz Chord Today I'd like to share with you a very useful chord shape for playing gypsy jazz. Below is an image of one way of playing a 'minor six' chord shape. Using 'minor six' chords in place of minor triads is very common in gypsy
