Guitar Noise

Susan Schwartz returns to Guitar Noise with two stories of recent trips – one to the Martin Guitar Factory in Nazareth, Pennsylvania and one to a small town in Maine where there happened to be an open mic night. You never know where you’re going to find a chance to play and enjoy music!

You never know who you’re going to meet in life. And, given the way things are these days, you also never know who you’re not going to meet yet still get to know and appreciate. Joining FODFest the past two years has hammered home, to me at least, the point that every life can make a difference in this world.

If you’re looking for an appreciative audience or looking for a way to give back to the community or even just looking for a way to fine-tune your performance, chances are you can do all this very close to home. Here Chad Andrews tells of his experiences and advice concerning this easy way to make a lot of people happy!

Sharing music is what Guitar Noise is all about and what better way to do so than to help give a little encouragement to someone? Here is a cool story and some advice from Laura Lasley, writer for Guitar Noise’s The Other Side.

Sharing music is what Guitar Noise is all about and what better way to do so than to help give a little encouragement to someone? Here are a few stories and tips from Guitar Noise readers from around the world.

We at Guitar Noise want to remind people of why we run this site and, much more importantly, why we play music in the first place.

Music is best when it is shared. Here is what happened when our film crew found itself in a part of the world where music was the only common language.

There may be many different features of music that people relate to. But emotion is the one common thing that is not tied to interpretation or preference.

There are two important goals for any guitar student: learning to play properly; and making sure that practicing and playing guitar is something you enjoy.

In honor of the joy of guitar, columnist Dan Lasley shares with us some of his favorite things about the world of music.

This article examines the myth of the self-taught guitarist.

On the one year anniversary of his first article for Guitar Noise, David Hodge takes off on one of his tangents and considers all things in the guitar universe.

Getting out there and playing music with others can be a lot of fun. Here’s a personal account of what goes into one big summer jam.

Let’s break musicianship down into three basic parts: what you were born with, what you can learn, and what you can dream. Where do you go next?

Sometimes it pays to take stock of things and remember what made you want to play music in the first place. Here’s a short interlude for any season.