Are You Stuck In A Guitar Rut?

Are You Stuck In A Guitar Rut?

For this week’s blog we have a special guest writer, the newest teacher on board at TMTG and also the awesome lead guitarist from Esimorp I hope you enjoy the great insight that Ric has into breaking a guitar rut, I sure did!     Before joining a real...
Beginner’s Guide to Improvisation

Beginner’s Guide to Improvisation

This week’s post is inspired by one of our subscribers so thanks again for all you support, readership and feedback.   For any beginner player (and even intermediate or advanced) improvisation can be daunting, I’ve seen this many times on...
Creating a Good Chord-Melody (Advanced)

Creating a Good Chord-Melody (Advanced)

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...
7th Chord Inversions (Advanced)

7th Chord Inversions (Advanced)

This week’s blog will be relatively short, really aimed at more advanced players looking at delving into jazz, or at least looking to have some jazz influence in their playing.   A lot of the principles for learning these inversions are similar to those...
5 Essential Skills for an Intermediate Guitarist

5 Essential Skills for an Intermediate Guitarist

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...