The best way to learn to play guitar is through one-on-one sessions with a professional guitar teacher. However, this method can be quite expensive and you need to schedule a specific time of day for this activity. The second best alternative is to watch online videos from guitar experts and learn by following them. This … Read more
“Can anyone recommend a decent website for guitar lessons?” is a perennial theme that pops up constantly on guitar forums (along with the many happy NGDs). The permanent answer? JustinGuitar.com (opens in new tab). Back in 2003, it’s doubtful Justin Sandercoe, then a 20-year-old native of Tasmania, had any idea that his fledgling website would … Read more
From the July/August 2022 issue acoustic guitar | By Peter Madsen Many guitarists talk about finding their own voice on the instrument. It’s a noble concept, but how do you deal with it? Producing something unique from scratch can seem like a daunting task. However, it is a blues tradition to combine licks and phrases … Read more
Breaking into the guitar world, especially as a self-taught individual, can be a confusing time. What brand of guitar to buy, how to learn the fretboard, how to position your fingers for each chord, there’s just so much going on. Luckily, there are many online resources that can act as teachers in players’ journeys, teaching … Read more
Just like Eddie Munson in stranger things 4, Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” is “the most metallic of all time” for me. I spent my teenage years obsessively learning guitar, and Metallica was one of my biggest influences. The combination of vocalist and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield’s thrash riffs and progressive song structures along with lead … Read more
Rocksmith has been around since 2011, starting as an alternative to the 5-knob rhythm guitar craze, characterized by allowing players to use their own real six strings as controllers, turning actually playing a guitar into a rhythm game. Over the years it’s been touted more for its success as a guitar learning instrument than as … Read more
Of the September/October 2022 problem of acoustic guitar | By Lisa Liu The extended arpeggio is one of the most beautiful sounds in western music. With its dreamlike quality, this sonority is often used in television shows and films to accompany alternate universes and dream scenes. The French Impressionist composer Claude Debussy used the extended … Read more
David Malachowski, a Schenectady native who started playing guitar at the age of 8 and has progressed from regional bands to music director for country superstar Shania Twain in the mid-1990s and touring worldwide musician in pit bands for Broadway musicals such as “Rent” and “Mamma Mia,” died Thursday. He was 67 years old. The … Read more
(October 3, 2022 / JNS) On Sunday, Yiddish music could be heard from the Jewish community center in the center of Warsaw, which wove Ukrainian songs in and out. dr Yuri Vedenyapin, a professor of Yiddish at McGill University and a musician, conducted a concert for Ukrainian Jewish refugees ahead of Yom Kippur. Of course, … Read more
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s children are all grown! The “Speed of Sound” rockers and Shakespeare in love The actress gave birth to two children during their 13-year marriage: Apple, 18, and Moses, 14. After tying the knot in 2003, the former couple announced their “deliberate separation” in 2014 and officially divorced in 2016 , … Read more