About Adam St. James
Adam is the author of Logical Lead Guitar, plus many books for Hal Leonard, the world’s largest music publisher, including “101 Guitar Tips: Stuff All The Pros Know And Use,” “101 Singing Tips…,” “101 Recording Tips…,” and “Incredible Scale Finder.”
Additionally Adam edited many other great instructional books, including Hal Leonard’s “Picture Chord Encyclopedia,” and the REH ProLicks series books: “Blues Solos For Guitar,” “Country Solos For Guitar,” Jazz Solos For Guitar,” and others.
He also wrote for most of the major guitar magazines (and nearly 60 other publications) during a 20+ year journalism career, and currently writes the “Workin’ Band” column for Guitar Edge magazine. Adam was the long-time editor in chief of Guitar.com and Musician.com and has had the opportunity to interview and produce videos with hundreds of guitar and music celebrities.
His music industry credits also include running vintage guitar website Gbase.com, guitar lesson site GuitarVision.com, and work for Fender, Washburn, D’Addario, Planet Waves, Guitar Center corporate, FM Jam, and Sammy Hagar.
After years performing on the stages of the Sunset Strip, Adam now performs at clubs and festivals throughout the American Midwest with his Allman Brothers and Southern Rock tribute band, The Almost Brothers Band.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Hey, Adam – Cool new site. I like it a lot. I’ve doing well with LLG. In fact, I was brave enough to post a two minute sample on my site. If you want to check it out, hit http://www.LakeLopezOnline.com and see the post called Last Night’s Wine. Talk to you soon – I’m off to practice.
Lake
March 16th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Loved it, thanks.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
I want to see more of these blog posts! What an awesome teacher!
May 6th, 2009 at 5:25 am
Great stuff!
May 9th, 2009 at 7:09 am
I just came across your website, I opened it but did not go through it completely yet. will take a longer look at my convenient time. Great interview with Jeff Beck, by the way!
May 27th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Excellent post, keep it up
June 1st, 2009 at 4:05 am
I always wanted to write in my site something like this,this is great post , surely bookmark this, thx!
June 6th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Thanks
June 14th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Interesting point of view.
June 15th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Thanks for the great post. I had added a link to your site to share this information around. Learn How to Play Guitar | Learn Guitar | Free Guitar Lessons | Learning Guitar Online
June 21st, 2009 at 11:40 am
Very cool blog, some of your finger exercises have been really helpful…
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:54 am
just added your site to my rss feed…
I love your explanation of modes…
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:38 pm
thanks for the article!!
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:54 am
Thanks for this. Bookmarked.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:12 am
keep the guitar lesson posts coming Adam!
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
How ’bout “American Woman?”
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Man, you’ve interviewed some awesome players! Who was your favorite?
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I realy like your Workin’ Band column in Guitar Edge dude… my band has used some of your tips!
June 24th, 2009 at 9:12 am
When did you first publish Logical Lead Guitar? I wish this had been out when I was first learning 7 years ago… I’m going to get a copy soon!
June 24th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
cool
June 25th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Thanks for this great blog Adam. Bookmarked.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Saw you jam one time with Rik Emmett from Triumph… You rock dude!
June 28th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Thanks for teh cool blog adam
June 29th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
got any guitar clinics coming to California?
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:13 am
jolly good old fellow there
with the luck of the irish this is dreadfully amazing!
glad I found your blog and will start working on the guitar finger exercises right away!
July 13th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
AH! This is the sort of thing I have been looking for. Great articles and guitar exercises. Doing some research for an article. You should add buttons to the bottom of your posts to social bookmarking sitest.
July 14th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Thank You for that info. I was searching the net and stumbled across this blog thinking I was gonna waste my time but I was very wrong. I’m working on your guitar finger exercises right now!
July 20th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Excellent site,Thanks for this great post – I will be sure to check out your blog more often.Just subscriped to your RSS feed….
August 1st, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Thanks for posting this, it?s great to be here! Hopefully your readers will enjoy it!
August 22nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
You are a very smart person!
August 26th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
I like your blog