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Topic of the Month

Celtic Music for Guitar

Since Saint Patrick’s Day is this month, it kind of makes sense to celebrate by having “Celtic Music” as our Guitar Noise topic of the month. Plus we’re due for a few new song lessons featuring some traditional tunes from the Emerald Isle in the upcoming weeks.

Avoiding Avoidance

Guitar Lessons | Gerald Klickstein

Some guitarists underachieve because they shirk regular practice. Gerald Klickstein describes how musicians can keep their creativity rolling.

Improve Your Guitar Teaching

Guitar Lessons | Tom Hess

Tom Hess describes how to break down a bad teaching habit so that both teacher and student can tackle it in easy, manageable steps.

From the Blog

Good Habits

Our Blog | Darrin Koltow | March 12, 2010 Comments (2)

Here’s a habit that doesn’t relate directly to playing guitar, but can have a great impact on your practice and playing: Keep a journal.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Rock Guitar

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Rock Guitar is for the beginner guitarist who wants to get up to speed quickly playing rock music. The earliest exercises up to the more advanced are all focused on the rock genre, not classical as in other books.

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Q&A with David Hodge

Review: Joe Hempel: Fingerstyle Collections

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It’s very cool when the music you listen to at home and /or in the car comes from people that you know. This winter I’ve bought or received some CDs created by members of the Guitar Noise community as well as from people who have contacted me through Guitar Noise. And I’d like to share [...]

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From Our Archives

Sting's "Fields of Gold" – Songs for Intermediates # 7

We’re going to take this four chord song and make a breathtaking solo guitar arrangement for it. It’s a great work out for finger-style guitar.

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Even Gordon Sumner’s mom and kids call him “Sting” so I guess we will, too! Read our artist bio of this Rock Hall of Fame and Songwriter’s Hall of Fame artist.