Tabs
Practical Advice For The Speed-Impaired
If you are struggling with getting your lead playing up to speed, pinpoint and target your specific weaknesses with these exercises.
Read moreHow To Do Lead Guitar Harmonies
Having two guitars that play the same melody but at different intervals in a scale, you can create the same beautiful effect for your lead guitars that choirs use for vocal harmonies.
Read moreA Site With a New Take on Tabs
A web site called YouTab has just been launched. It has an interesting way of enhancing guitar tabs – it scrolls them in realtime with the song (has been done before) and syncs them with a video of the song. This is potentially a great tool for learning new songs. There are a few obstacles to […]
Read more7 Essential iPhone Apps for Guitarists
Even if you are extremely busy or always on the go, you can get a lot done musically done with your iPhone or iPad. Here are the apps I use most to learn and create music.
Read more10 Great Tips from Wikihow on Writing Thrash Riffs
I found a list of 10 great tips in an unexpected place – Wikihow. Wikihow is a collaborative site with how-to manuals on almost every subject, including writing thrash riffs apparently. The tips are simple but really very good and most of them can be applied to writing music in general. Here’s the list in […]
Read moreGuitar Pro for iOS – Tab Editing on Your iPhone
Guitar Pro has always been an invaluable tool for my guitar learning. First as a tool to not only read tabs but actually hear them – it’s incredible how the wrong tempo/phrasing can transform a tab for a newbie into a completely unintelligeble song. Lately I’ve been using it to tab down my own compositions, […]
Read moreAdvanced Palm Muting for Metal
Palm muting is really essential to most metal genres, and fast alt.picked palm muting even more so. I’ve really put time into my alt picking – practicing slowly with a metronome at first – really aiming at getting a consistent sound between upstrokes and downstrokes, and getting a good chug out of each note. It’s […]
Read moreHow Do You Get Started Playing?
I get this question a lot – how do you get started playing guitar? Learn From the Best Well, I’m clearly no expert – I didn’t really get started until I was 33. Luckily, there are numerous experts. One of the best is Justin Sandercoe, an Aussie living in London. His site, www.justinguitar.com, is one […]
Read moreFull Version of Tab App Progression for iPad
The tab authoring app Progression for iPad was only available in a restricted free version when I last wrote about it. Recently the full version was released, with lots more instruments and support for opening Guitar Pro files, which you can download using an in-app browser. The price is quite reasonable at €3.99. Some basic […]
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