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Pat Metheny Unity Band Review

Pat Metheny Unity Band review by Guitar Command, June 2012. Guitarist Pat Metheny is one of the biggest names in jazz today. His considerable oeuvre includes projects as diverse as a collaboration with minimalist composer Steve Reich and an album of solo compositions written for Metheny’s own custom-made mechanical ‘Orchestrion’. Prior to ‘Unity Band’, Metheny’s …

New Guitar Backing Tracks

Exciting times here at Guitar Command with the arrival of two brand new guitar backing tracks albums … Guitar Scales Backing Tracks First up is an album we’ve been planning for a while. You can read as much as you like about guitar scales, but unless you’re actually improvising with them the knowledge remains theoretical. …

JamMan Solo Review

DigiTech JamMan Solo Review In our JamMan Solo review, Guitar Command gets to grips with the entry model in DigiTech’s loop pedal range. In 2005 DigiTech introduced the JamMan, a loop pedal that for the time offered an impressive amount of storage time and options. The current range of JamMan pedals further improves on the …

Welcome To Guitar Command

Welcome To Guitar Command As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve recently changed the name of this site from ‘GuitarScales.info’ to ‘GuitarCommand.com‘. It’s always a big decision to change a website’s address – it presents a myriad of technical issues, as well as the more obvious marketing ones. However, despite having a few last minute panics, the …

Chords For Guitar Modes Backing Tracks

For those who have purchased the Guitar Modes Guitar Backing tracks album, here are the chord charts for each of the tracks. The Guitar Modes backing tracks album is a great way to improve your understanding of modes. The tracks on the album cover each mode of the major scale and provide an exciting and …

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 …