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Rocking The Rest Home

Special to Guitar Noise

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!

Making Music - Playing Well With Others (and other rules Mom gave you to live by)

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.

Making Music - Tales of Playing Well With Others from our Guitar Noise Readers

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.

The Joy of Music

Special to Guitar Noise

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.

Tales From the Ili Valley

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.

Playing With Emotion

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.

The Fundamentals of Fun

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.

My Favorite Things - Bass for Beginners # 13

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

Common Sensei - (or, The Myth of the Self-Taught Guitarist)

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

Thanks (Giving and Getting)

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.

Build Your Own Band Buffet - (or What I Did on my Summer Vacation)

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.

If I Only Had…

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?

On Gifts and Giving - An Interlude for the Holidays

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.


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