When I Started Playing Slide Guitar….. Part 2
If you missed the first installment, you can find that one here. So continuing on. About 2001, I decided to start playing slide again. I had quit playing for a couple of years to focus on playing regular ...
“I Practice Guitar But I Don’t Get Any Better.”
Do you find yourself saying this over and over again? If you already think that this phrase sums up your guitar playing experience, then reading this post may bring some long needed answers to your mind. So why ...
VL Effects Bullitt Booster Fat Vintage Demo
A customer of Learning Guitar Now named Vincent of VL Effects sent an email and told me about the pedals he has been making for some time now. I agreed to give them a try and see what ...
My Fender Strat Makeover: Custom Shop 69 Pickups Review
These upgrades to my strat have given me the classic Fender tone I’ve always been searching for. I decided to give my 1979 Strat an overhaul a couple of weeks ago and the changes in tone have been ...
Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster Review
Here’s my Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster review. These are my honest opinions of this guitar and hopefully it will give you a better idea of whether this guitar will work for you or not. I’ve always wanted a ...
Open G Tuning Guitar Lesson
In this guitar lesson, I’m going to show you some tips about starting slide guitar in open g tuning. Now the first thing you’re going to want to do is put some larger strings on your guitar. I ...
How I Learned about Guitar Tone, The Hard Way
Getting a good guitar tone is one of the most talked about subjects in the guitar realm on the internet in my opinion. Everyday you can find people discussing amps, guitars, strings, cables and many other components of ...
How to Record a Video While Playing over a Backing Track
There is no doubt that YouTube has become the place for online video viewing. There are over 20 hours of videos uploaded every single minute on this video sharing site, and there is no sign of decline. So ...
Slide Guitar Tunings: What Should You Use?
If you’ve been trying to learn how to play slide guitar, then there is no doubt that you have probably experimented with some different slide guitar tunings. When using an open tuning, this means that when you hit ...
How to Get an Allman Brothers Guitar Tone
In this post I’m going to show you how I got a tone to similar to what Derek Trucks, Duane Allman, Warren Haynes, or Dickey Betts might use when playing over an Elizabeth Reed or Jessica style jam. ...
My Top 5 Duane Allman Guitar Solos
Duane Allman has been one of my biggest influences since I started playing guitar. Back when I first put Live at the Fillmore East on, I became immediately obsessed with trying to learn how to play like this ...
7 Reasons Why You Didn’t Find Success with Slide Guitar
With the rise in popularity of Slide Guitar, partially due to Derek Trucks, many people are now wanting to play this expressive way of playing the guitar. Playing slide guitar is as close to the human voice as ...
Mastering BB King’s Vibrato
If you have listened to BB King and tried to reproduce his playing, then you already know that his vibrato is one of the most difficult things to reproduce. Simply put, if you can’t vibrato like BB, then ...