Resources Gypsy Jazz Guitar Q & A: Part 1 A series of posts designed to answer common questions about gypsy jazz guitar. From Studygypsyjazz.com’s head tutor, Harry Edwards. * Gypsy Jazz Guitar Q & A: Part 1 * Gypsy Jazz Guitar Q & A: Part 2 * Gypsy Jazz Guitar Q & A: Part 3 You may also want to
Fingerstyle Binge-Watch Some Tommy Emmanuel: Complete San Francisco Workshop 2014 Tommy Emmanuel is widely hailed as the best acoustic guitar player in the world. He's got a cult following around the world. And, certainly, we're a tiny bit obsessed here at The Guitar Journal. So, imagine the delight upon finding that a generous YouTube user (thank
Resources Top 10 Jazz Standards for Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Some musicians who play acoustic fingerstyle guitar sound like there is definitely more than one guitar playing. Many jazz standards can be arranged for fingerstyle guitar and this style of guitar playing lends itself well to the genre. Let’s take a look at some of the top jazz standards
Resources Peer-to-peer Guitar Rental Marketplace: An Introduction to Fretish I'm excited to have a guest blog this week from Sam at Fretish℠. Sam is the founder of the recent site, Fretish.com, which aims to make borrowing a guitar easier. Talking with Sam this week, it was easy to see how bringing the sharing economy to guitars
Apps & Tech App Review: Keeping Your Tabs Organized with Practice Book Practice Book solves a basic problem for all sorts of guitarists: quickly accessing your favorite tabs. If you’re like me, you often look up a tab (or ten) and simply leave them open in the web browser while you play. Then, the inevitable happens. A week later, you refresh
Learn Guitar An Introduction To Gypsy Jazz Lead Guitar Gypsy jazz guitar is a unique guitar style that was created through the playing of the late virtuoso Django Reinhardt. Django played guitar in such a novel way that he has since inspired musicians all around the world to take up this fun and accessible guitar style. Gypsy Jazz is
Resources Guitar Aerobics: An 80's Title, But 2016 Worthy We're two weeks into 2016. Right around the time that your willpower begins to wear out on those New Year's Resolutions. The gyms will slowly be emptying out over the next few weeks. The fast food restaurants will be slowly filling back up. What about you?
Resources 5 More Great Guitar Blogs Worth A Follow I wrote a popular post a while back called "10 Great Guitar Blogs Worth a Follow". Well, the time has come to update that list a bit with "5 more great guitar blogs worth a follow". In no particular order: 1. tonefiend.com The personal blog
Learn Guitar 13 Great Country Acoustic Guitar Lessons on YouTube As we all know, YouTube has a wealth of lessons and "how to play" tutorials for guitar. If you want insights into playing a particular song, riff, technique, or for exploring a new genre, it's the perfect place to search. A quick disclaimer: I don'
