Are you looking for an entry-level guitar with a powerful and clean sound with easy playability? I know, it sounds like the dream guitar, but the Taylor Academy 10 dreadnought may be the exact right fit for you. In my over 10 years as a teacher and 20 as a musician, this guitar is one … Read more
If you ever find yourself interested in buying a vocal program or modeling yourself after a vocalist who makes fun of the idea of warmups and exercises, RUN FAR AWAY FROM IT! Every serious vocalist, expert, professor, coach, and famous singer will tell how critically important it is to strengthen your voice with proper vocal … 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
Microphones have come a long way in the last few years, particularly computer microphones. Microphones that plug directly into your computer via USB are the underrated heroes of any type of internet video and voice production. A lot of content creators use these microphones for recording music, gameplay, or doing podcasts about their favorite subjects. … Read more
If I did a survey from all my students over the past 10+ years (literally thousands at this point), the majority would say learning the guitar is top on their list of musical desires. The guitar is one of the most idolized and loved instruments of the past 100 years. People love it! But for … Read more
Learning the guitar is easily the most sought after skill by the average person. Over 10 years of teaching, I’ve asked students from as young as 4 to as old as 70 what instrument they’d love to learn someday. Most of the time, the answer is the guitar. But private lessons get expensive, so many … 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
When students approach me for lessons, they’ve often tried guitar at some point. Usually, they try to learn it on their own which results in frustration. They ask me for lessons on guitar, but at some point early on, they ask me some variation of this question: Guitar is too hard. Should I try to … Read more
If you are anything like me, you’ve spent several hours playing co-op games with friends on your PC or console. After years of engineering audio, it bothered me that I couldn’t hear myself when I spoke into my microphone. This lead to a lot of confusion about how loudly I was talking and didn’t allow … Read more