Guitar Life: stories, interviews and adivce
Fuel your motivation and find advice from teachers
Reading the bio and facts about our favorite guitar players is always an excellent source of
inspiration. In this section, you can read about some of the masters that have taken the guitar
to the next level. You'll also find advice for life as a musician.
#1 Who invented tapping on guitar? Maybe a doctor from Italy
Van Halen did NOT invent tapping on guitar. Here's an articles and a video on an italian amateur guitar players that in the sixties was used to tap his guitar with the right hand... Read article
#2 How To Make Money as a Musician
This article will explore some ways to make some money off your musical skills. Lessons, transcribing, but also creating jingles, music therapy and more.. Read article
#3 How To Write Songs With Your Guitar | Songwriting Tips
This tutorial will provide you with some useful tips to get you starting writing your songs and lyrics on your guitar.. Read article
#4 Discipline Equals (Fretboard) Freedom | What a Navy Seal can teach you
Learn how to apply the Navy Seal mindset to our guitar practice and become a more disciplined, focused and committed guitar player.. Read article
#5 Kaki King | The new guitar Goddess
Introducing Kaki King, named by Rolling Stones The New Guitar Goddess. One of the most innovative guitar player of the last years, a genre unto herself.. Read article
#6 Tosin Abasi | 8 strings guitar genius
This article will show you Tosin Abasi's awesome technique and style, a genius of eight strings guitar and progressive metal.. Read article
#7 Life against the Odds : The Story of Jason Becker
The story of the guitarist Jason Becker: hard work and resilience that take the talent and forge it into something of transcendence.. Read article
#8 The Father of Gipsy Jazz: Django Reinhardt
In this article you find the story of Django Reinhardt, the father of gipsy jazz and a real guitar genius. Read article
#9 Keith Richards Open G Tuning
In this lesson you'll learn the Open G guitar tuning, one of the favorite tunings of Keith Richards. Your guitar is going to sound like a Rolling Stone!. Read article
#10 Angus Young's diabolical riffs
In this lesson we're going to take a look at a standard pentatonic lick in the style of Angus Young. This one is in A minor, and features the kind of aggressive bending and pentatonic playing that Angus often uses.. Read article