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In: Guitar Lessons
18 Feb 2010I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute some articles to the April issue of GuitarEdge magazine. This is starting to become a regular thing for me and I am really enjoying contributing to a magazine that is more focused on education.
Here are the links for the articles:
Style File: Russell Malone
TipJar: Rootless Voicings
Workin’ Band: [...]
In: Guitar Lessons
24 Jan 2010I was lucky enough to be asked to do some writing for GuitarEdge magazine. The lessons are in the March issue with Alice in Chains on the cover. GuitarEdge is a magazine that contains mostly transcriptions and lessons with a few articles about gear and artists. As a guitar teacher I really like this magazine [...]
In: Guest Post| Guitar Lessons
28 Oct 2009Fingerstyle or classical guitar seems daunting at first. Like any other style of guitar, however, the basics apply to everything. The purpose of this article is to get you playing some beginning patterns with the right hand fingers.
In: Guitar| Guitar Lessons
25 Aug 2009I created a few worksheets for my students to help them learn some different voicings for major, dominant and minor seventh chords. These were the most downloaded worksheets from my last blog and I thought it would be useful to post them here again.
Major 7th Chord Voicings
Dominant 7th Chord Voicings
Minor 7th Chord Voicings
I will also [...]
In: Guitar Lessons| NGW
15 May 2009Finding the right teacher is the best way to insure success in any endeavor, not just learning to play an instrument. Unfortunately, we have been conditioned by our school systems to accept the teachers they put in front of us. So often when we actually do have a choice like selecting a private teacher, we fall back into the habit of accepting whoever is available.
I am a guitarist, writer and teacher living in Connecticut. During the day I work for the National Guitar Workshop as Director of Marketing and Artist Relations.