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    Feature Articles

    The Yardbirds’ Chris Dreja: Re-Inventing the “Rave Up”

    By Adam St. James
    The band that launched the careers of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck is still out there rockin’… As of 2010, the Yardbirds are on tour again, with dates in the U.S. and worldwide.
    This archive interview, in which I spoke with founding member Chris Dreja a few years back, details how [...]

    Learn Guitar

    Improve your guitar playing with these online guitar courses and resources:

    Logical Lead Guitar
    The most user-friendly DVD-based lead guitar course ever! Four hours of DVD footage, more than 500 musical examples, and extremely detailed instruction on the use of all five Pentatonic and all seven Diatonic scale patterns, plus all five CAGED arpeggio patterns -- and so much more!

    Shut Up 'n' Play Yer Guitar
    20 columns and 3.5 hours of DVD lessons on everything from guitar finger exercises to scales and arpeggios to chords and chord progressions -- a great overview for the beginner or intermediate player!

    12 Week Guitar Course
    Guitar lessons at Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels -- and all FREE!

    Guitar Leads
    Learn Solos from Black Magic Woman, Sweet Home Alabama, and dozens of other classics!

    Song Surgeon
    Learn to play any song 667% faster -- by slowing it down so you can hear what's being played!

    Video Surgeon
    Extract videos from the internet and slow them down -- works great on YouTube lesson videos!

    Project X
    The DVD guitar course that shows you how to solo all over the neck using only two patterns!

    Ultimate Blues Primer
    A total blues guitar course on DVD!

    Ultimate Fretboard
    The DVD guitar course that will explain the complete layout of the guitar fretboard!

    Essential Rock Guitar Techniques
    Learn to play in the style of Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and more!

    Sweep Picking and Arpeggios
    Learn to shred with techniques popularized by the likes of Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and more!

    Monster Tapping Techniques
    The ultimate course on Van Halen style finger-tapping!

    Chicken Pickin' Chops
    Learn the incredible -- and incredibly fun -- Chicken Pickin' technique with this in-depth DVD-based guitar course!

    BluesLessons.com
    The ultimate source of blues related songbooks, DVDs, and instructional materials on the web!

    RockChops.com
    DVDs, songbooks and more -- everything from AC/DC to ZZ Top, from Elvis to Elvin Bishop, from Smashmouth to Soundgarden!

    JazzGurus.com
    Instructional resources to help you master every aspect of jazz -- on guitar or any instrument!

Feature Articles

New Guitar Course Is Live, Totally FREE!

It's here, the new guitar course that is going to really get your guitar playing fired up! And it's totally, completely, ...

Robin Trower: Guitar Icon Returns To Form

By Adam St. James Procol Harum’s self-titled 1967 debut album, featuring the hit “Conquistador,” and more importantly, “Whiter Shade of Pale,” ...

featuredimage 3 Doors Down’s Matt Roberts: Home, Home on the Road

By Adam St. James From Super to Supreme, 3 Doors Down continues their killer ride to superstardom with Seventeen Days. I ...

featuredimage Rock Steady: Guitarist Mark Kendall of Great White

by Adam St. James Pure decadence. It was the hedonistic ’80s. Lipstick wearing “hair” bands ruled Hollywood’s Sunset Strip – and ...

featuredimage Re-Mixed: George Lynch Reconstructs his Past

By Adam St. James [Adam's notes, 2008: I really loved George Lynch's playing in the hey-day of Dokken, the band that ...

Artist News

New Bluegrass Release from the Grascals

 
Celebrated Bluegrass Group The Grascals Release
The Famous Lefty Flynn’s March 30th on Rounder Records
 

Band to Tour with Hank Williams Jr.’s Rowdy Friends Tour in April
 

NASHVILLE, TN - The Grascals, one of bluegrass music’s most highly awarded and acclaimed bands, will release their brand new CD, The Famous Lefty Flynn’s, on Rounder Records March 30, just a [...]

Feature Articles

New Guitar Course Is Live, Totally FREE!

It’s here, the new guitar course that is going to really get your guitar playing fired up!
And it’s totally, completely, 100-percent free of any charge of any kind whatsoever!
Get started now:
12WeekGuitarCourse.com
Just for getting started you’ll receive, in addition to 12 weeks of guitar lessons by the author of Logical Lead Guitar, Shut Up ‘n’ Play [...]

Guitar Industry News

Industry Legend Shares Secrets of Music Stardom

Agent behind The Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, The Judds, Merle Haggard, Roy Clark, Tammy Wynette releases book

Jim Halsey set to appear on Fox & Friends, Fox Business Network, and SiriusXM all on March 4th
OKLAHOMA CITY – After building the number one country-music agency in the world, Halsey eventually sold it to found the Jim [...]

Guitar Lessons

How To Find The Right Chords for a Melody

I get a lot of email questions relating to things I teach in my various courses, and/or just things guitarists are working on in their own musical world. I just got an email from Christopher in the U.K. asking how to figure out appropriate chords for a melody.
Here’s what I told him:
Thanks for [...]

Resources & Links

Musical Associations: The Definitive List

AFTRA (American Federation of TV and Radio Artists)
AFTRA represents actors and other professional performers in television, radio, sound recordings, and new technologies. AFTRA negotiates pay scales and contractual payments for over 80,000 performers. AFTRA also offers health insurance and retirement benefits for active members.
5757 Wilshire Blvd, 9th Fl.
Los Angeles, CA
90036-3689
P: 323-634-8100
F: 323-634-8147
E: swhite@aftra.com
www.aftra.com
Contact: Sidney White
American [...]

Reviews

Essential Jazz Guitar Lesson DVDs and Book/CD Packages

I’ve been getting a lot of email and blog comment questions about Jazz guitar lately.
There are definitely some great books and DVDs available that I would recommend for building your jazz rhythm and lead chops.
Check out some of these:

50 Licks Jazz Style will give you some great soloing ideas, and after you learn a bunch [...]