Q & A: Choice of Scale for Soloing

Back to the “mailbag!” Can I even call it a “mailbag” if it’s an email? Hi David- I recently stumbled over your articles regarding Choosing Colors-Turning Scales into Solos. I’m a 47 year old guitarist that plays great rhythm but has struggled being able to figure what scales to play over what chords for guitar [...]

More Things Your Cat Can Teach You About Guitar (or Life)

Technically, winter has only five more weeks to go here in the Northern Hemisphere. But when you’re going through it one day, one hour at a time, that it may never end. You could be stuck forever exactly where you are. You can certainly feel that way about learning to play the guitar, or learning [...]

FODFest Friends in February (where to see some cool live music!)

I’ve talked about FODfest before on these pages, as well as on Guitar Noise. In case you are new to my blog, FOD stands for “Friends of Danny” and “Danny” is Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in Pakistan in 2002. Besides being a reporter, Daniel was a wonderful musician (primarily [...]