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Avoiding Avoidance

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.

Solving Timing and Rhythm Problems

Guitar Lessons | Nick Minnion

Whether you are a guitar teacher or a self-taught guitar player you are likely to come across problems related to playing in time and interpreting rhythm.

The Ears Have It

Guitar Lessons | David Hodge

If you want to be able to play guitar, you have to go through all the "grunt work" - that means practicing. Not surprisingly, that means using your ears.

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Featured Topic

Since Saint Patrick's Day is this month, it kind of makes sense to celebrate by having Celtic Music as our featured topic of the month.

Featured Artist

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.

Bumping around the blogs

How To Achieve Finger Separation On Guitar

www.guitarprinciples.com

This student is demonstrating the “Walking Exercises” from “The Principles Of Correct Practice For Guitar”. When properly practiced, they give anyone perfect form and functioning in the left hand for guitar. A common question…. Hi Jamie, When I first pick up the guitar and raise my left hand and place my fingers on the finger board I have [...]

Review: Joe Hempel: Fingerstyle Collections

www.davidhodge.com

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 [...]

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.

Strumming for Beginners

Beginners are not the only ones who find strumming difficult. These lessons start with some very basic techniques working up to more advanced ideas.

Audiofanzine Guitar News

[Musikmesse] Ampeg Heritage Series (19/03/2010)
Ampeg announced a new line of heads and cabs designed and assembled in the U.S.A.
[Musikmesse] Two Notes VM-202 (19/03/2010)
The VM-202 is a dual-processor guitar/bass cab simulator, designed to handle both analog (line balanced/unbalanced) and digital signals (S/PDIF, AES/EBU).
[Musikmesse] New Blackstar Amplification Effects (19/03/2010)
Blackstar announced the launch of three new effects pedals: HT?Delay, HT?Modulation and HT?Reverb.
[Musikmesse] DBZ Guitars Venom Snake Skin (19/03/2010)
Dean Zelinsky created a textured Snake Skin finish using new techniques: in Frankfurt, Germany next week DBZ will reveal the new Venom Snake Skin guitar along with its entire line of guitars at Musikmesse.
TC Electronic PolyTune Review (18/03/2010)
When it comes to guitar tuner pedals innovations don't come by everyday, so when TC Electronic announced the PolyTune, a pedal that allows you to tune all strings at once, we got curious...
Fernandes Ravelle & Monterrey Elite Tremolo (16/03/2010)
Fernandes has released several new models of guitars.
FEA Labs The Growler (16/03/2010)
FEA Labs announced the FEA Growler pedal as the forth pedal to their lineup - it is designed to add second harmonic warmth for the player who is looking to add that extra "growl" and "punch" to their bass tone.
[Musikmesse] Orange Amps Crush & Crush PiX (16/03/2010)
Orange are announcing at the Frankfurt Musikmesse a range of new models and changes.
Voodoo Lab Pedal Power ISO-5 (10/03/2010)
Voodoo Lab announced that it is shipping Pedal Power ISO-5, featuring 5 isolated, regulated, and filtered output sections-a solution for small pedalboards, rack shelves, or as an additional supply for larger boards.
Mills Acoustics Merlin 212 (08/03/2010)
MILLS Acoustics introduced the latest addition to their lineup of Pro-Tour Guitar Cabs, the Merlin 212.