š« Tickets for LIVE! Justin Hawkins Rides Again…for the first time! UK Tour: https://tinyurl.com/kneukve2 š¤ VIP Meet & Greet Ticket Upgrades: https://tinyurl.com/yc4ej3ev I’m revisiting guitar virtuoso Plini today as he has a recent track out called Ember. I’ve always found it difficult to connect with this kind of progressive rock […]
Learning barre chords can be one of the most difficult steps when learning the guitar. It can hold people back for months, or worse, put them off playing altogether. In this guitar lesson, I explain a simple way to play barre chords that means you’ll learn correctly and effectively, saving […]
Why is it that there are only 12 notes used in music? Why not 13 or 14? It comes from the circle of fifths. Much of Western music is built on the relationship between the tonic and the dominant. If we are to work out the dominant of each dominant […]
The pentatonic scale is often the first scale that beginner guitar students learn. This doesn’t always happen with other instruments and also these scales aren’t necessarily more important than major scales or minor scales. In this video, we look at what makes the pentatonic scale unique, and how it is […]
What do all the letters, numbers, and symbols in chord symbols mean? How do we work out which notes to play? How are chords structured? What are chord symbols? If you’re a beginner guitarist, understanding complex chords can be quite challenging, but all chords are very simple when looked at […]
Why do musicians worry so much about playing wrong notes? Many musicians, especially those who begin improvising with jazz, worry about playing wrong notes. However, there’s no need to worry about playing wrong notes in music. In this video, I use the example of playing the guitar to show how […]
