1. The very first thing you need to know is that learning to tune your guitar takes time.
Some things on guitar can be learned in minutes, some in days, and others in weeks, but tuning will sometimes take even longer, because you have to train your ears. If results come slowly or don’t seem to [...]
Greetings one and all. In this article I wanted to have a look at a particular guitar solo. Namely the little gem performed by Danny Cedrone for Bill Haley and the comets on the classic, “Rock around the clock”. I had just finished knocking this one up in my studio to use as a backing [...]
Update: Welcome one and all to our very first podcast. At the end of this article you will find a link to hear Mark Johnson explaining and demonstrating some of the techniques discussed in this series of articles on soloing. Mark has worked hard on getting this series and its’ accompanying podcast out and I [...]
So you’ve looked at the basic Pentatonic scale and now you want to liven it up a bit.Excellent Grasshopper.As I mentioned before, the Pentatonic scale is the basis of my soloing Kung Fu, and my Kung Fu is strong. I assume if you’ve grasped the principles of part one, then yours too is becoming somewhat [...]
I want to address in this installment the almost lost art of soloing. Why? Because it’s what I get asked about the most.I may have to spread this across a couple of installments, but let’s see how we go.
In years gone by, I was a total guitar meglomaniac and everything had to have a screaming [...]