The Official Blog of the Guitar Dojo - Helping Intermediate Guitarists

This is a great lick, originally for bass - but the syncopation is such that it's a great rhythm exercise for guitarists as well! So put on a metro...

When you are playing over a I-IV-V progression (blues or blues based stuff) - particularly if you're relying heavily on dominant 7 voicings - a sup...

Since Monday was a holiday and I didn't put out a L.O.W. - I'll do it now!This is a cool one. The song is "Spain" by Chick Corea. It's sounds like...

What if...I picked up guitar first, or ukelele, or maybe banjo???? If you've known me for any amount of time - you'll know that guitar wasn't actu...

One of the greatest rock and roll triumphs is Chris Cornell's pheonix like rise after the demise of Sound Garden. Equally important is the same ri...

 Picture it - it's the "Summer of Love" ...The group "Santana" was flown in by helicopter to Max Yasgur's farm, which was the site of WOODSTOCK in...

This is a Bach inspired "baroque style" lick - but don't let that fool you. This is anything but "stuffy", especially if you turn up your gain and...

This is a very simple little lick. At first bounce, it'll probably feel and maybe even look like a "standard blues" or "pentatonic" lick - and it ...

Today's article comes just in time as I am releasing a video soon entitled "How to fake it till you make it with fingerstyle guitar". In that vide...

This is a great "portable" arpeggio pattern, based here in Gm7 (G minor 7) Essentially we are playing the notes from the chord and stretching them...

I'm very blessed that I was able to attend Berklee College of Music...but of course, even after attending such a prestigious school..."the grass i...