Six Un-Advanced Tips to Improve Your Guitar Playing I began this post with the intention of putting all the best music theory tips needed to create great blues and rock solos. However, that was too ambitious, so I’ve distilled the article down to a few common...
Guitar Theory: Roots, Movable Chords, and Intervals Explained Here are a few important concepts to understand when learning guitar that will help you progress faster. In this post, we’ll break down four common questions—what the root note means, how movable...
Go Next Level with Arpeggios! Playing arpeggios is one of the first things to focus on when you learn to improvise. No matter what type of music you play or how complicated the chord progression is, understanding how to use arpeggios is crucial, but especially if you...
In today’s cigar box guitar lesson, we will learn Blues Jam #2. One notable difference is that I’ve added some rhythm using a guitar looper pedal and a few other effects like the octave pedal. You don’t need a looper pedal to learn this blues jam – just a...
In today’s lesson, we will make a simple 12 bar blues solo in the key of D using the open position blues scale in open D guitar tuning (D A D F# A D). Most guitarists can do this naturally in good old standard tuning after learning a few blues scales and then...
Learning how to play the slide guitar can be one of the most expressive ways to play the guitar, be free of your tempered fret tuning, and seamlessly glide between notes. To make your guitar sing like an angel or stutter like a motorbike is possible with this tiny...
DADF#AD tuning or “Open D” is a fantastic tuning that many guitarists and resonator players use instead of standard guitar tuning.  You can produce big lush sounding chords that give your guitar style a pleasant change. Open D is a very convenient tuning...
Toronto-based trumpeter and composer Brad Eaton draws inspiration from all corners of today’s diverse musical landscape. As the son of two professional trumpet players, Brad was deeply immersed in music and the arts. Brad is a graduate of the University of Toronto...
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