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Archive for February, 2012


Guitar String Noise

By bobmolton on Friday, February 17th, 2012 | 2 Comments

How To Avoid Excess Guitar String Noise Controlling a cranked up electric guitar from excessive Guitar String Noise when playing, can be a challenge of itself. Just the fact that it’s an electric guitar can cause all kinds of strange noises that you wouldn’t encounter with an acoustic guitar. However, the approach to keeping the [...]

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Tapping Guitar Harmonics

By bobmolton on Thursday, February 16th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Tapping Guitar Harmonics If you’ve heard a guitarist Tapping Guitar Harmonics, then you already know that it does create a beautiful sound especially when done on a clean sounding guitar. However, you can do this method on a distorted guitar as well and create equally cool sounds. Edward Van Halen is definitely someone who has [...]

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Guitar Metronome Timing

By bobmolton on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Mastering Your Guitar Metronome Timing Timing is the element responsible for how tight and “in the pocket” your overall guitar playing is. If you have a great sense of timing you’re already a few steps ahead, in terms of being a great guitarist. For some guitarists, timing is something they really have to work at, [...]

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Guitar Alternate Picking

By bobmolton on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 | 2 Comments

Guitar Alternate Picking and Legato Rolls When it comes to Guitar Alternate Picking and Legato Rolls, these are tools that you DO want to have complete control over, to use on demand at a moments notice. I like to view this as the throttle controlling a fine-tuned engine. You won’t always have it cracked wide [...]

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Pentatonic Guitar Soloing

By bobmolton on Saturday, February 11th, 2012 | 2 Comments

Pentatonic Guitar Soloing Over Guitar Chords Soloing over guitar chords can be quite easy when using the minor pentatonic scale. Add spice and power to your guitar solo’s with these simple but highly effective techniques. You’ll be surprised with how much can be done. Most guitar players start with the minor pentatonic scale when learning [...]

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Guitar Quality Holding You Back?

By bobmolton on Saturday, February 11th, 2012 | 2 Comments

Guitar Quality Can the quality of your guitar hold you back from being the best guitar player you can be? The answer is sort of tricky because it could be yes and no! Guitar Quality as a beginner, not so much. If you are a beginner, you certainly don’t need a Les Paul Custom and [...]

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Guitar Warm-Up Exercises

By bobmolton on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Guitar Warm-Up Exercises As a long time guitar teacher, I often notice that many of my students do not go through any guitar warm-up exercises before they practice their guitar. They simply just pick up the guitar and start blazing on different speed picking techniques or whatever they might be working on at the time. [...]

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Guitar Modes and Improvisation

By bobmolton on Monday, February 6th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Guitar Modes and Improvisation When it comes to Guitar Modes and Improvisation, it helps to understand the major scales modes, and use them as a road map to travel across the fretboard. When I use the term “road map”, it’s very much like an actual road map. A road map shows you how to get [...]

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