With eight steel strings on a fairly narrow neck, to keep a good action for more than a year or so, I think some kind of neck reinforcement is necessary. ...more

The following exercises carry on in order of difficulty. ...more

Many players tell me that when they play a solo their efforts sound like they are just playing up and down scales, or that they sound too "scaley". There are many different reasons why this could happen but in this lesson I will show you a cool trick to quickly get rid of the "scaley" sound. ...more

Musicians are encouraged to give an enthusiastic and dynamic performance. However because of limitations of recording equipment and mediums their levels must be controlled, to some extent, if we are to create musically acceptable mixes. ...more

Howdy dudey. In the next few lessons I thought we should explore some different concepts for soloing over a jazz standard with a few chord changes. ...more

This instalment of X Factory takes the scalpel to Arithmetic, by Brooke Fraser. Please, someone stop me if I bang on about simplicity every time, but here we go again. ...more