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How To Play Jazz Guitar

Thinking of learning how to play jazz guitar? Get off to the right start with this concise guide that features all of the key concepts in jazz guitar playing. We tell you how playing jazz differs from playing rock and blues. We’ll also share information on jazz guitar playing techniques, jazz standards, comping, substitutions, ii …

Guitar Music

Guitar music eBooks for instant download. Guitar Scales / Artist Music Publishing present two collections of guitar music, both of which are suitable for intermediate fingerstyle players. Both collections are presented in notation and TAB.

History Of The Guitar

A brief history of the guitar, including the instrument’s ancestors and the main figures in its development. Today, the guitar is one of the most (if not the most) popular and widely played instruments in the world. However, as this potted history of the guitar shows, this was not always the case. [ad name=”Google Adsense …

Best Guitarists Of All Time

Compiling a best guitarists of all time list is clearly an impossible task – music, thankfully, is not like running the 100 metres, in which an exact comparison can be made between athletes present and past – and what makes a great guitarist is purely subjective. What does become apparent when listing the best guitarists …

Guitar Scales Video

Our YouTube channel, guitarscalesvideo, is now up and running, and we are hoping to provide a wide range of high-quality guitar backing tracks and guitar lessons. Check out our channel page here. Latest Guitar Scales Video The latest video on our channel is a laid-back, funky backing track called ‘Psychedelic Girl’. Play along with the …

Guitar Practice

If you want to learn the guitar quickly and effectively, you will have to master the art of separating guitar practice from guitar playing. Due to the highly accessible nature of the guitar, it is extremely easy to slip into ‘playing’, rather than ‘practising’ mode. Playing is all very well, but if the aim is …

In this article we aim to answer the oft-asked question ‘How long does it take to learn guitar?’ We’ll give you some idea how long it takes to get good and what you can reasonably expect to achieve on the instrument within certain timeframes.

As you probably guessed, in reality ‘How long does it take to learn guitar?’ is an impossible question to answer!