When one picks up the guitar, or any instrument, the initial stages of learning are a heady rush. You can’t take in all the basics fast enough, but you’re making music and making progress so you just keep going. At some point, though, you either hit a plateau or you realize that while you’re making […]
Suppose, just for the sake of discussion, that you’ve decided to take up playing guitar. Any instrument would do, really, but let’s go with guitar because we’re guitarists, after all! Now suppose you’ve turned up for your first lesson with your teacher. You’ve got your guitar out and tuned and you’re holding it and ready […]
…in a deep and dark December. Well, it’s not that deep but it’s definitely dark. At least where I am. As 2010 draws to a close, no matter how deep or dark or wintry it gets, we’re still celebrating playing guitar at Guitar Noise by giving away two autographed copies of my latest book, The Complete […]
Our question today comes from both the Guitar Noise Forum pages and an email, so I’ve taken the liberty of combining parts of both in order to make one single inquiry: I’m reading The Complete Idiots Guide to Rock Guitar and I’m on Chapter 3. I’m at the exercise at the end of that chapter, […]
Less than ten months ago, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Rock Guitar wasn’t even out in bookstores (or online, for that matter). Now we’v just turned the page of the calendar to December it’s still just sinking in how amazing it is to have two books come out this year. To celebrate the two […]
November is flying by!  It’s already November 15 and time to announce our latest winner of our Guitar Noise giveaway. As you know, we’re giving away two autographed copies of my latest book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar, each month up through December 2011. If you’d like to enter this giveaway, just get yourself a […]
From a fairly recent email: Hi! I’m wondering if you can help me….?! My guitar teacher moved away in the middle of helping me with the song “Darkness, Darkness” by Jesse Colin Young and the Youngbloods. Â I think the rhythm guitar has an awesome and intriguing sound, hard for me to decipher….but then a lot […]
Hello to all It seems like a million or more years ago, but it was back in October, 2002, that the Guitar Noise Sunday Songwriters’ Group (or “SSG” for short) was formed. The SSG is essentially a weekly assignment for songwriters to use to help keep themselves working at their writing. Creating songs is just […]
As it’s November 1, it’s time to announce another winner of an autographed copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar. On the off chance that didn’t know, Guitar Noise is having an ongoing contest to give away two autographed copies of my latest book each month – usually on the first and fifteenth of the […]
One of the members of the Guitar Noise Forums recently wrote to tell me he’d bought a copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Rock Guitar. And then he let me know that he’s also started a blog in order to post his review of the book. He intends to go through it chapter […]