Learn To Play Rock Guitar

Improve Your Brain for Better Guitar Playing (Just One Benefit)

Hey Friend, Sorry for the lateness of this message, and this one has nothing to do with guitar. But it does have to do with both repairing and improving your memory. I have been trying to catch up on a special video series of doctors discussing a d ...

What Is Melody?

Hey Friend, When I say the word melody, what do you think of? If you’re like most Rockers, you immediately picture a lead singer belting out the main line of notes as they sing the lyrics. And you are correct. But there’s more to melody than ...

The Results Are In

Hey Friend, Thanks for taking a few minutes and filling out the survey. I appreciate it! Here's how things fleshed out: 46% of you want to focus on melody - that means looking at how notes interact and learning various scales and patterns. 29% of ...

Tuning With Harmonics

Hey Friend, Yesterday I spoke about a manual way to tune your guitar strings using fourth intervals (aka “perfect fourths”). An even more accurate way to tune is using harmonics. Harmonics are overtones of a guitar string’s vibration. Whe ...

Need a Tune Up?

Hey Friend, Do you ever think about how your guitar is tuned? These days, most people have some tuning device like a Snark or an app on their phone, but in the old days we had to have a reference instrument or device to start with. I had a tuning ...

Woof...

Hey Friend, We’ve been busy over at the Vance household getting the place back in order after Hurricane Irma took a swipe at us. That didn’t stop me from indulging a bit on some Beach Boys tunes. I had come across an article talking about the 40 ...

Which Way We Goin’, Boss?

Hey Friend, I won’t take but a minute or two of your time today. As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve created a (very) short survey asking your opinion of what topic we should focus on next. You are the reason I decided to do Learn To Play Rock Gui ...

Turn Off Distractions

Hey Friend, One of the nicest things about an acoustic instrument is the ability to play it without electricity. Even with all the power outages, I was still able to get in some playing time in the midst of storm prep and keeping things going aroun ...

Returning To Our Regularly Scheduled Program

Hey Friend, Apologies to you... As you may have guessed by now, we lost power and internet service down here in Orlando. Overall, we were extremely fortunate. I’m not sure what the winds clocked in at, but with them howling outside and tree bra ...

Buckets of Rain