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Drop High D Tuning for Slide
The first thing you may be asking when you see this post is, “What the heck is Drop High D Tuning?” Well you have probably heard of Drop D Tuning where you tune the Low E string a whole step…
Open E Tuning Chord Lesson
If you are new to Open E Tuning then there is one question that you will no doubt begin to ask. How do you play any chords in Open E Tuning? Well it’s pretty simple actually. In this post, I’ll…
Ryan Harris – Customer Testimonial and New EP
My name is Ryan Harris, and I play slide guitar in open E tuning. I front two bands in the Raleigh NC area — JetHorse, which has a jammy, Allmansy kind of sound, and The Ryan Harris Band, which has…
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 against the: PLAY THE GUITAR OVERNIGHT OR YOUR MONEY BACK…
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 in there and add some additional material to the course…
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 progresses things take much more time then they used to…
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 lately, I decided to set out on a search to…
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. However, I have found that these key factors have helped…
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 all the new video features that I’ve been using for…
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 fun putting together this track. It’s nice to be able…
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 Story It’s no secret it takes self-discipline to learn a…
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 it would be pretty fun to do it and I’ve…
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 of life lessons to learn from. In short, I don’t…
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 Guitar 6 DVD Course is now discontinued which means 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 you set these goals and you DON’T ACHIEVE THEM? Most…