Playing at jam sessions is an important milestone in the life of all guitarists. Getting together with other like-minded people is great fun, fosters friendships, and will really advance your guitar skills. After playing guitar for 20+ years, I’ve had my share of jams, good ones, and bad ones. There are a number of guitar…
Learning to play the guitar at home through DVDs is a great alternative to hiring a personal teacher. There are lots of DVD courses out there for beginners and those who are looking to go in-depth with a specific genre, for example, blues or metal. But which ones can be considered the best guitar lesson…
Learning how to tune your guitar, and keeping it in tune is one of the most important technical elements of playing the guitar. If your guitar is not in tune, you simply won’t be able to hit the notes you want, or play the songs you love, since it will all sound out of tune….
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Learning to play blues guitar is awesome, since it’s one of the easiest genres to master on the guitar. Because of this, and the fact that playing the blues is fun and expressive, many beginner-intermediate guitarists choose to learn the blues. And yes, it is possible at an early stage already. To start playing the…
Hello to all my esteemed students! First off, I want to wish you all a Happy and Successful New Year. I wish I could say it to all of you individually, but this is the next best thing. As a little twist on my usual post covering the most viewed lessons of the previous month,…
The Holidays are upon us, which means peak seasonality in the guitar industry. Why? ‘Tis the season of giving! Many people receive a guitar as a gift, but of course, can’t play it. Yet… This is where online lessons come into play. As I mentioned in my article on how to teach yourself guitar, the…
The Holidays are here again 🙂 This time of the year means different things to different people, depending on your religion, your upbringing, where you live, and in general, the kind of person you have become over the years. What the Holidays means to my family For myself, becoming a parent (4 years ago and…
I’ve been thinking about migrating TheGuitarLesson.com (which runs on WordPress) to HTTPS for quite a while now. There are many advantages of moving a site to HTTPS, there are a lot of articles online that deal with the subject, so I won’t go into detail on them. Being secure is important, but for me, the most important factors were:…
‘Tis that time of the year again. Mistletoes, Christmas lights, and guitar lessons. Yes, the seasonal sale over at JamPlay.com has begun. It is a bit more expensive than it was last year, by $10 to be exact. I guess inflation has hit JamPlay as well 🙂 No seriously, they have advanced heaps through the years, so a…