Guitar

If you've ever been curious about the ukulele - how it's made, how it's tuned, and what exactly it sounds like - I've put together a short profile on the instrument here. Includes links to audio and ukulele lessons.

I've put together a short list of simple-to-play Nirvana songs, complete with performance tips, links to audio, and more. Easy Nirvana Guitar Tabs

For those of you who have had to endure constant requests from guitarists asking to sit in with their band... enjoy this. Hilarious! Sure, you can jam with my band....

If you're a beginner guitarist, looking for a song to practice changing chords quickly, then try playing this tab for CCR's "Proud Mary". Nothing is too complicated in this song, but the chord changes to come pretty quickly. If you aren't familiar with the song, you can listen to "Proud Mary" on Spotify.

So, ya wanna play funk guitar? Many rules of rock guitar just don't apply to funk music. In order to play funk music well, you'll have to un-learn some of the habits you've picked up over the years. This lesson should help provide you with the basic requirements needed to get your start playing funk guitar. Read this funk guitar primer.

If you are interested in writing down some guitar tab, or drawing out your own chord sheets, here are some blank templates for guitar chords and tab.

On April 19, 2012, the world lost Levon Helm. Although those of you who knew Levon thought of him as a drummer/singer for the band, Levon was actually a fine mandolin player, and began his career as a guitarist in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas. Over the years, I've posted about, and prodded you all to make the trip to Woodstock, New York to see one of Levon Helm's Midnight Rambles - I hope some of you listened. Those concerts in his barn contained some of the most intimate, profound music I've seen, and I'm saddened to think I won't experience those in the same way again. Rest in peace my friend.

For the few of you who have not already seen this, you owe it to yourself to check out this video of the Canadian-based band Walk Off the Earth playing Gotye's "Somebody that I Used to Know". The catch is that all five band members play the song on a single guitar. You've got to see this to believe it.

It's not particularly exciting to play or watch, but this YouTube video from Antoine Dufour provides a pretty good outline of the basic technique used to play fingerstyle guitar. This is for absolute beginners who would like to put down their picks and experiment in fingerstyle guitar.

Here is a lesson explaining the dorian mode, a minor sounding scale that can be used to spice up your guitar solos. Features famous examples of the dorian mode by guitarists like Santana, Tony Iommi, plus Cannonball Adderly, and others. With mp3s and guitar tab. Explaining the Dorian Mode