by Tom Bills If you are seeking a way to improve the tone of your guitar or thinking of having a custom guitar made for you, one small detail you might consider that can have a big effect on the tone and playability of your guitar is the nut. The nut is the part of [...]
Read the full story »by Gohar Vardanyan In classical guitar technique there are two different ways we can sound the string: rest stroke and free stroke. Each stroke has unique qualities that serve a specific purpose. Rest stroke gives us the ability to play notes with warmer timbre, more volume and more assertive power; free stroke allows us to [...]
Richard Gilewitz On the surface, the concept of effectively achieving a basic hammer-on effect while fingerpicking can seem ludicrously simple. However upon closer examination, fine tuning and locking down your patterns to create a solid groove involves a bit more than meets the eye or the ear. The trick to eliminating hammer-on hiccups it to [...]
Harper Willis As a jazz improviser, what you play over dominant chords makes up a big part of your sound and style. Popular scale choices for dominant chords include the mixolydian scale, the mixolydian scale with a raised 4th, the altered scale and the whole tone scale. The diminished scale is another great and perhaps [...]
by Richard Gilewitz I never imagined my music would one day take me to Tasmania. But, it makes sense to eventually end up there since I’ve traveled nearly tip to tip on the globe – from Invercargill, New Zealand to the Orkney Islands and Hoy, which is two ferry boat rides away from the northern [...]