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Students often tell me they want to learn a song exactly as it is on the album but it’s not always a good idea. As teachers, we often simplify songs to make them more accessible to beginners but that’s not the only reason to make changes. Take the song Creep by Radiohead for example. Johnny Greenwood has written a great arppegiated guitar part using a number of barre chords. The drums

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Get Started Now. Cover an entire guitar solo with this one simple lick. Check out our newest online course – Play the Blues – Coming Out Tonight!

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Get Started Now. Have you made any resolutions for 2016? If so, congratulations–according to psychologist professor and researcher John Norcross in a New York Times article, you are TEN TIMES more likely to achieve your goal over time than a “non-resolver” with the identical goal and comparable motivation to change. That’s good news for people who make resolutions, but the

Get Started Now. It’s January and our phones are ringing off the hook! People all over NYC are making the resolution to play guitar in 2016. Many of them will be successful but some of them will lose momentum as the year moves on and life invariably happens. Not you, though! You will be successful because you will have clear, achievable and definitive goals. Here are a few suggestions to hel

Get Started Now. Check out our Online Course – Fingerpicking is Easy! Start Simple. Now some in between notes. Use your thumb for?the notes on the fourth and fifth strings. Try it with a G Chord. Skip over the fifth string with your thumb and use two different fingers for the top notes. I like to use my second and third finger but good form would be your first and second. Alternate Top Notes

Get Started Now. Alex had been teaching himself from the internet for six years before he teamed up with Michelangelo to enter the next level of his epic metal journey to the stage.

Get Started Now. With this lick of the month, we begin a series of New York inspired songs kicking it off with some Taylor Swift!

Get Started Now. Part two in our NYC inspired series of licks. It’s the Beastie Boys from back in the day when Park Slope was a rough neighborhood!