Each week at GuitarPlayerZen.com, we love helping to expose new guitar talent to the guitar community, and man is there a lot of it to be exposed!  This week we have a young axe-slinger from Muskegon, Michigan to show you guys. This young guitar wizard goes by the name Nicholas Scott, and holy shit can [...]

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Recently I just picked up the book, Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Success,by Marcus Buckingham. The key idea of this book is to harness your strengths and make them stronger, and not to focus on getting better at where you are weak. The result of focusing on your [...]

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…..Is going to be a little delayed this week or absent due to us upgrading our systems. Sorry! But wanted to give a shout out and a good luck to our friend Eric Brewer, who will be competing this weekend in San Francisco for Guitar Player Magazine’s Guitar Superstar contest. Eric is one of ten [...]

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The relationship between two pitches is called interval, and all interval is based in a Root and its relationship with any other pitch of the scale. Take a look at the interval structure of the major scale below and compare with the minor scales: The Major Scale: R – root M – major interval b [...]

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Hailing from Norway, Eivind Aarset has recorded on over 150 albums with artists such as Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mike Mainieri, Ute Lemper, Ketil Bjornstad, Arild Andersen and Abraham Laboriel. This resume, along with three critically acclaimed solo albums, establishes Aarset as one of the pioneering spirits of modern jazz guitar. Let’s take it [...]

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