News: CG Blog Wins Award

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Published Aug. 3, 2010 at 7:45 p.m.

Brett over at Guitar Friendly was nice enough to honor the Classical Guitar Blog with a first place in the “Guitar Instruction and Lessons” category of the 2010 Guitar Blog Awards. Thanks, Brett! Did you enjoy this post? Check out News: CG Blog featured on Total Guitar’s “Blog of the Week” ...

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Beginners Guitar Lessons for Kids & Children

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Published April 16, 2010 at 11:26 a.m.

As far as playing a guitar goes, plenty of folks can do that. And many people have learned to play guitar without instruction, for free. But how good can a free guitar lesson be? They can be excellent, especially for someone who already plays the guitar, has a good grasp of the instrument and can [ ... ] ...

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Guitar Teaching Handbook

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Published Jan. 14, 2010 at 9:00 a.m.

Seattle-based guitar instructor and founder of Heartwood Guitar Instruction Rob Hampton has recently written a book titled Rob’s Totally Awesome Guitar Teaching Handbook. In the book, Hampton provides hard-earned insights into setting up and running a successful guitar teaching business.I’ve thought several times about becoming a guitar teacher, but I’ve always had questions that have [ ... ] ...

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Christmas gift ideas for guitarists

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Published Dec. 8, 2009 at 5:24 p.m.
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With only a few weeks until Christmas I thought it would be a good idea to post a few ideas either to forward on to your family/wife/kind friends or for you to buy for a guitar loving someone ... Live DVDs ... Joe Bonamassa live from the Royal Albert hall ... Click here to buy the DVD ... Steve Vai - Where The Wild Things Are ... Guitar Instruction ... Rock House Method ... Metal Guitar - Song Writing, Riffing and Soloing with Rob Arnold of Chimaira ... Lick Library Learn To Play Stevie Ray

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Leslie West The Sound and The Story - Guitar Instruction / Documentary DVD

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Published Nov. 29, 2009 at 4:25 p.m.
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Maybe I’m too young (that would be a first) or maybe it is because Mountain weren’t very popular in England but I had not heard of Leslie West until he supported Joe Satriani on his US leg of the Professor Satchafunkilus tour. This seems even stranger when you consider that Leslie was an influence on a young Joe Satriani ... This DVD, like the Mark Tremonti DVD I reviewed last week is part documentary, part instructional DVD and as you might have guessed is produced by the same company

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Gus G of Firewind signs on as Rock House instructor

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Published Nov. 10, 2009 at 4:09 p.m.
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You will have probably heard Gus G’s name mentioned recently when he replaced Zakk Wylde at BlizzCon 2009, before playing with Ozzy Gus was famous for playing with Firewind. Now Gus G has joined the ever growing list of talent on Rock House Method’s books as an instructor. Here is the info from the Press Release: ... Rock House, the leader in music instruction, announced today that Gus G., founding member and driving force behind the band Firewind, has joined Rock House’s roster of master

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Rob’s Totally Awesome Guitar Teaching Handbook

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Published Nov. 3, 2009 at 5:10 p.m.
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The other day I was reading a review on the always excellent Stratoblogster about a guitar teaching ebook called “Rob’s Totally Awesome Guitar Teaching Handbook”, aside from the great title I thought the book cover was pretty cool too and after reading the review decided to head over to Rob’s website Heartwood Guitar Instruction for a few more details and decided to buy the ebook for myself. Originally I hadn’t even intended to review the book I just thought it would be a good read as

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More Guitar Tabs and Online Lessons.

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Published Oct. 26, 2009 at 3:44 p.m.

As I cruise through the enormous amount of guitar tabs and online guitar lessons, I see that some of the creative methods people are using to give online guitar lessons and guitar tabs are very imaginative and effective. The possibilities seem endless. The decisions on who and what to use as an instruction aid are [ ... ] ...

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Lick Library - Learn To Play Stevie Ray Vaughan Vol 1 & 2

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Published Sept. 30, 2009 at 6:02 p.m.
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A few weeks ago I reviewed a Lick Library instructional DVD called “Guitar Techniques - Stevie Ray Vaughan” where Stuart Bull takes you through licks and techniques from Stevie’s playing to add in to your own playing. Lick Library were also kind enough to send me both “ Learn To Play Stevie Ray Vaughan ” volumes taught by the excellent guitarist and teacher Jamie Humphries. Each Volume is comprised of 2 DVD’s with a thorough breakdown of the various sections and solos in the songs

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Jeff Loomis joins Rock House

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Published July 23, 2009 at 4:31 p.m.
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It is official Nevermore guitarist and shred virtuoso Jeff Loomis has joined leading Guitar Instruction company Rock House Method. There have been some exciting additions recently with Alex Skolnick and Kiko Loureiro also working on instructional DVD’s for Rock House and after hearing Jeff’s solo debut “Zero Order Phase” I can tell you that Jeff certainly has plenty to share! ... Here is the press release: ... (West Haven, CT., July 23, 2009) – Rock House, the leader in music

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