{ Lick That Riff! }

So Are You? Or don't you want to be? This relates back to an article I read a few weeks back about guitar motivation. I had plans to write a post about it back then but I was busy so it must have been pushed to the back of my mind. Until I seen a picture of the Hendrix statue in Seattle. This immediately sparked a thought process. Why do we decide to learn the guitar in the first place? What is it that draws us to want to tame this magical beast? Potential Fame? Commanding a Stage? Or maybe just for the general Fun Factor of it? This[...]

Hello Everyone, looks like Morello and Dime were neck and neck in the last poll. Suppose we can't see who the best Guitarist of the 90's was. I also think that there isn't going to be a clear winning in this weeks poll. It has been a good decade for the guitar and I there are some amazing guitarists in this poll. [poll id="11"] I honestly can't call this one, there are just too many great guitarists there. Happy Voting x Subscribe in a reader Enter your email address: Delivered by[...]

So the last decade was a pretty good one for music, and especially guitar music. We saw some great Guitar bands, and some great Guitarists. But what can we look forward to in the first year of the next Decade, 2010? Well, there are some great bands that are releasing some new material. There are also more Guitar games coming out. And there is an ever increasing presence of Guitar-related websites. Albums To Look Out For Vampire Weekend - Contra The Strokes MGMT Red Hot Chili Peppers Kings Of Leon The White Stripes Fleet[...]

Well the decade is nearly up now and I thought that I should do a little review of it. It has seemed to have gone so fast! It has also seen the revival of guitar-based music within popular culture, but also by the end of the decade, we see Guitars used less and less within this culture as 80's-esque electronica has been bought back. So, what were the big events? We've seen technological advances far beyond anyone expected. We've seen some of the greatest guitar players that graced the planet, sadly pass away. We've seen skinny jeans, robot[...]

Well hello there everyone. Hope your all ok? This is the first in what should be a series of weekly posts with the riff of the week. I thought that I would start off easy this week as its a great riff in a great song. What I'm going to do is challenge you all to complete the riff each week. It might be easy but if you haven't played it before then all you are doing is adding a song to your repertoire :-D So here's the tab. Enjoy, and let me know how you get on with it: This is how it should sound So let me know[...]