These days I tend to play nylon stringed electric guitars, for chord melody guitar playing. I’ve grown more into nylon stringed guitars so they don’t tear my fingernails apart and I’m able to play chord melody guitar easily. I generally swap between pick style and finger-style within the same tune which is why I like [...]

Research shows that young people who take music lessons have significantly better developed brains then those who have never learned music. There a countless articles and discussions on the topic of children's music lessons and the development of the brain.

Alan Parsons is a world renown producer and has a website I found very interesting

Simply put, a “fake book” is a book of lead sheets. Lead-sheets are a basic musical skeleton of a tune with the melody and chords and lyrics (if any).

I want some feedback from the music community and I pose this Question; What Is The Most Difficult Aspect Of Learning An Instrument?

You realize that the cheers from the audience after a particularly difficult passage are for a sports play on the big screen TV over the bar, and that in fact, no one is listening to you. When the gig you drove 200 miles for to make $100, and had to pay for a hotel room, [...]

Many people consider the bass guitar to be the “soul instrument” of music. It gives a song life, and if you can learn to play, you can impress your family and friends! So don’t waste any time, and learn to how play bass guitar. Many people are more into electric and acoustic guitars because they’re [...]

You need to develop a good understanding of how to read and use diagrams if you want to learn to play guitar chords. Whether you’re an absolute beginner or a bit experienced, the easiest path to becoming a pro guitar player is by learning some simple chords. That way, you can apply them to learning [...]

In the simplest terms, a guitar tab is a word that is used to describe a musical notation, which may contain either numbers or letters and explains to the musician where to place his/her fingers on the instrument. Guitar tabs consist of multiple lines and is often called a ‘staff notation.’ These lines, which are [...]

What grooves you? Why do you want to improve?   Regardless of your intentions – whether to get started playing, learn a few licks of your favorite tunes, or want to expand your repertoire to include blues, funk, or rock and roll music, on your way to recording yourself, there are resources out there that [...]