As a music teacher and performer for many years, I have seen a lot of guitarists and songwriters hold themselves back by not learning more advanced chord progressions. Chord progressions provide harmonic movement to a song, so there’s no denying that the right chord progression will make your music stand out. The basic progressions we … Read more
Boss’s TU-2 chromatic tuner pedal set the industry standard for years. If you were using a tuning pedal, the TU-2 was the best choice, hands down. Now, Boss has added additional features and exciting functionality, reworking its original features into the TU-3 pedal. There’s a difference, and you don’t have to be an audiophile like … Read more
Moving chord shapes and basic open chords have been easy for my students to understand over the years, but some seem to get stuck around there. After the 1, 3, 4, and 5th degrees of a scale, they sometimes want to throw in the towel. 9th chords are a great way to step just a … Read more
Boss has a lot of delay pedals. Since they are all named similarly and look nearly the same, it can be difficult to determine which to purchase. That’s where I come in. I’ve been a guitar enthusiast for nearly a decade now, and I’ve tried delay pedals from just about every major brand. While most … Read more
A lot of guitar students spend time learning how to play individual chords and learn the chords of songs, but they often fail to understand why the songwriters chose the chords they did. As a music teacher and guitar player for many years, I’ve seen this lack of knowledge prove limiting to many of my … Read more
Electric Harmonix is very much in-tune with the people who buy their products. They always have been, and the existence of the Nano POG and Micro POG octave pedals are nothing if not evidence of this. The community, myself included, cried out for a smaller POG and they delivered the Micro POG. That wasn’t small … Read more
After over 15 years of teaching hundreds of students how to play guitar and also playing guitar as a hobby, I’ve learned a lot about what makes a guitar pedal great. Multi-effect pedals are my go-to tool for playing around with sound, and Boss has always made great ones. You don’t want to spend hundreds … Read more
Boss makes some of the best guitar equipment out there, in my opinion. After years of watching their products get better and better, I feel we’re finally at a place where I can compare some of their looper pedal and looper station models to help determine which is the best value. There’s a popular saying … Read more
As a guitar teacher, I always get asked questions about songwriting and the general idea of “putting it all together” by guitar players. Many guitars players’ ultimate goal is to be able to freely play and move around the guitar in whatever key they want. Part of achieving this goal is understanding all the different … Read more
Jazz can be a really daunting area for guitar players to move into. It seems on the surface like a vastly complex network of crazy chord changes and mind-bending, but believe it or not, you can start from an easier place. As a guitar teacher, I have helped many students get into jazz playing from … Read more