Category: Guitar Technique

April 14, 2011

Is This The Most Expensive Guitar Book Ever? A Guitar Hanon Book for $998.98?

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I was surfing the net this morning and came across an Amazon.com listing for one of the guitar books I wrote in 2005.

The book is called Mega Chops: Scale Mastery Beyond Hanon for Guitar.

I was totally blown away when I discovered the price that one seller is currently asking for this book.

Are you ready for this?

It’s $998.98!

Now I’m not really sure if this is the most expensive guitar book ever, but it certainly is the most expensive guitar book I’ve ever seen.

I’m certainly very proud of this book and I’ve received lots of positive feedback from guitarists that are using this method to improve their guitar technique.

In fact, Rogers Stevens the lead guitarist from Blind Melon says:

The Mega Chops Guide has been invaluable to me.

I’m a big believer in the Hanon exercises for piano, and had never considered applying them to guitar. After playing for 20 years, this book quickly took my playing to another level technically.

I use it on tour before every show…it’s great for warming up when time is limited.

Use a metronome and take it slowly at first, and you will get great results.

~ Rogers Stevens

Blind Melon

If you’re interested in seeing first hand what Mega Chops: Scale Mastery Beyond Hanon for Guitar can do to improve your guitar playing by all means you can grab the used copy from Amazon if it’s still available.  But if you would rather get a new copy at a fraction of that price, check out Guitar Hanon – Mega Chops Scale Mastery Beyond Hanon.

February 22, 2011

Announcing The Top 30 Most Powerful Guitar Technique Exercises of All Time

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If you’re reading this, I’m sure that you are not 100% satisfied with your guitar playing…

Ultimately, you want to play more accurately, with better technique, and yes, a bit more speed would be great too.

The Holy Grail

The problem is that very few guitarists know the most effective ways to improve their technique.  Everyone is looking for the “holy grail” of technique—a way to magically transform their playing overnight into a virtuoso.

But let’s face it: very, very, few guitar players actually know the secrets of how to practice for maximum results.  The players that know these secrets want them to remain TOP SECRET!

It’s Shocking But True…

I’ve taught guitarists of all levels and I’m always blown away by the fact that 98% have no idea of what is actually required to improve their technique and lead guitar playing. They don’t know how or what to practice for maximum results.  This is through no fault of their own.  They simply were never shown these secrets and didn’t luck out and discover them on their own.

Until now…

Top 30 Most Powerful Guitar Technique Exercises of All Time

Discover the Top 30 Most Powerful Guitar Technique Exercises of All Time

November 16, 2010

Guitar Tutorial: An Effective Finger Coordination and String Skipping Exercise to Improve Your Guitar Technique

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String skipping is an area of guitar technique that is tricky for most guitar players.

String skipping simply means that you play a note on one string and then skip over one or more strings to play the next note.

In today’s tutorial we will look at an exercise that actually performs double duty.  This exercise will help improve your finger coordination as well as improve your string skipping.

The exercise uses finger combination 1-3-2-4-3-2-4-1.  This finger pattern is played skipping over one string.

Practice this exercise on each fret up to the twelfth.

For picking, you can use strict alternate picking or a combination of alternate picking and hybrid picking.  For a systematic approach to improving your guitar technique check out -> Quick Tips for Faster Fingers.

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