Published stories - Lessons & Advice

Video game makers use motion capture technology to put real people into animated worlds. These guys do that for guitar. I'm not sure if it is useful but it looks pretty cool

Siggi Mertens is an awesome guitarist and teacher on Youtube.

The half/whole diminished scale is what we call a symmetrical scale, meaning it is based on a repeating pattern of specific intervals.

Don't fret, a local guitar technician gives advice on buying your first guitar

More than just a random calculation of the guitar-maker's whimsy, or a spec that affects playing feel but little else, scale length - the distance between a guitar's bridge and nut - plays an enorm...

Sharpen Your Pick? that one was new to me. Some good advice.

A 12 part video guitar lesson has been posted on YouTube for the song “The Day That Never Comes”, off of Metallica’s new album, Death Magnetic.

Here’s what I think: Throughout the first few years of your playing your progress is very trackable.

I was recently browsing the Guitar Player Magazine forums and, in response to the magazine's regular '10 Things You Gotta Do To Play Like...' feature, a reader posed the question: What are the 10 t...