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Do This One Thing and Your Guitar Playing Will Get Better. I Guarantee You!
[Updated 2014] Sounds like a bad late night infomercial huh? I can guarantee that this will work, but I can’t guarantee that it will be easy. This pretty much goes…
Blues Guitar Method 2 Coming Soon [Updated May 15 ]
Now that I’ve worked much more on the course and had some people look over it, I’ve decided to remove some of the content that was originally going to be…
New Site Updates
This year has been very interesting to say the least and I’ve accomplished a lot but haven’t really got a chance to make any new lessons yet. As the site…
1966 Fender Vibrolux Replacement Speaker Shootout
For some time now my 1966 Fender Vibrolux has been developing what is called “Cone Cry”. It’s more pronounced when using humbucker guitars, and after experiencing it a lot more…
Arm Injury Update – 9 Months Later
9 months ago I suffered a nerve injury due to leaning my elbow on my desk while working on the computer. 9 months later it is still not fully healed.…
Slide Guitar Open E Tuning Course Update
Today marks the re release of my best selling Open E Tuning Slide Guitar Course. This course has been out for a while but I felt the need to add…
Please Come Home For Christmas
Hello everyone! It’s the Christmas season again and this year I’ve put together a cover version of the Christmas Classic “Please Come Home For Christmas”. It’s been a lot of…
Customer Success Story – Jesse Canarte
The following is a testimony written by Jesse Canarte about what it took for him, a married man with kids to be successful at learning to play slide guitar. Jesse’s…
Featured on Musicians Friend
A few weeks ago I got an email from Ginger at Musician’s Friend. They wanted me to write a short blurb about why I love my acoustic guitar. I thought…
2013 Look Back – What a Year!
Wow is all I can say when I look back at what all has happened over the course of 2013. It has been a memorable year for sure with lots…
My Updated Blues Guitar Method
This Course is now available here. Read more… I’ve recently gone back and updated my best selling blues course and put a lot more info into these lessons. The Blues…
How to Respond to Failure When Learning Guitar
I write about setting goals a lot when playing guitar and it really does work. However, there is another side of the coin which is equally important. What happens when…
VL Effects Greentone Demo
In this video I want to show you a Demo of the VL Effects Greentone Overdrive Pedal. This pedal is in the family of tubescreamer style overdrive pedals, but this…
Roll Down the River EP Preview
This is a very exciting time for myself as I have been working on my new EP entitled Roll Down the River for several months now and it’s about finished.…
How to Put More Emotion into Your Guitar Playing
One thing I have been thinking about lately, is that humans are emotional creatures and respond to almost anything that seems to come from the heart. If this statement is…