by Paul Roth | Mar 13, 2018 | Inspiration, Musicianship, Teaching
This week’s blog is inspired by a lesson I had with a student this week. I’ve long believed as a teacher – especially in this day in age – with such a vast amount of resources online, that a large part of my role as a teacher is to teach students how to...
by Paul Roth | Oct 26, 2017 | Chords, Musicianship
Today we have another more advanced topic (jazz nerds rejoice), all about creating chord melodies. This can be done compositionally, or with any pop/folk song, but today it’s going to be focused on taking that from a jazz standard. Then, of course, if you are...
by Paul Roth | Oct 13, 2017 | Musicianship
Of course, any intermediate guitarist would have more than just these 5 skills, and you may actually be an intermediate guitarist without some of these skills. So it’s important to highlight, that this isn’t a post made to peg you in a certain level, but...
by Paul Roth | Aug 31, 2017 | Chords, Lead, Musicianship, Solo
3rds and 6th intervals on the guitar are some of my favourite things to use to create riffs or just give a bit more interest to some lead parts. Some great examples of this already include Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl, John Mayer’s Belief Cat...
by Paul Roth | Aug 11, 2017 | Capo, Musicianship
Divisive comment alert: I love capos. They’re awesome. Now there are many guitarists who believe that you shouldn’t use capos but should just learn how to play the chords properly. They have a point, you SHOULD be expanding your knowledge of chords so that...
by Paul Roth | Aug 3, 2017 | GUitar-vocalist, Musicianship
Hey hey, it’s been a while so thanks for your patience and for tuning in after I gave myself a small hiatus, I can only imagine your frustration. Firstly, this is NOT a post about becoming a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Rather, I’m wanting to draw...
