A Life by Ear: Jazz Guitarist and Composer Dr. Stefan Hall
Jazz guitarist Stefan Hall moonlights as a classical composer. Also listen to his gypsy/modern jazz fusion and gem-like standards rescued from oblivion.
How to Teach (and Learn) Guitar, with Dylan Welsh
Seattle guitar pro Dylan Welsh shares his teaching on how to learn ear training, music theory, and fretboard fluency skills by putting the music first.
How should you approach guitar ear training?
Ear training is a hot topic for guitar players, because so many want to play guitar by ear and ear training is the key to learning to play by ear. There are two ways to answer the question of what ear training a guitarist should do. Core listening skills for...
Introduction to Guitar Tone
Don’t just look at a guitar and assume you know the sound it will produce. Learn about the various factors that affect guitar tone and what to listen for.
How to Improvise on Guitar: 3 simple steps
Getting started with guitar improvisation doesn’t need to be complicated. Here’s a simple 3-step process that anyone can follow to learn to solo on guitar.
5 reasons every guitarist should learn intervals
Discover five strong reasons that any guitarist should train their musical ear using intervals, and the steps you can take to easily start today.
Ear Training Site Profile: JazzGuitar.be
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… Jazzguitar.be is a particularly multifaceted resource for any jazz musician, but it’s a goldmine for guitarists at a beginning to intermediate stage of jazz training. Featuring a dense list of lessons—from...
Jazz Guitar Giveaways – What makes that sound jazz?
An appreciation of common musical genres in important for any musician, and guitarists in particular are often called on to provide accompaniment in a specific style at the drop of a hat. Today we’re going to look at jazz guitar ‘giveaways’: musical...How do you recognise triad chords and inversions on guitar?
If you want to learn to recognise triad chords on guitar, you’ll need to use a combination of standard triad chord ear training and specific guitar ear training exercises. Triad chord ear training There are four main types of triad chord: major, minor, augmented...How do guitarists memorize songs to play? Is this part of ear training?
Many guitar players (and indeed other musicians) struggle to memorise songs because they do it the wrong way. Memorising songs can be easy, but you need to know the best approach: which is to understand the music! The wrong way to memorise songs If you try to simply...How can I do interval ear training on guitar?
Intervals are a great way to develop your core sense of relative pitch, and guitarists find it particularly useful to learn interval recognition for the sake of improvising. If you’re a lead guitar player and want to break free of the scale patterns and...How can I learn to play guitar by ear?
Playing guitar by ear is a common goal for guitarists when they start ear training. You can train your ears to give you the skills needed to easily play songs by ear. Exactly how you should train your ears for playing guitar by ear will depend on quite how you want to...
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