Jimmy Brown

In the spirit of the Axemas season, we’ve compiled a handful of select solo guitar arrangements of popular Christmas songs, including Deck the Halls, Silent Night and Jingle Bells

Learn a songwriting trick used by everyone from Eric Clapton to The Beatles

Train your ears with our guide to tuning a guitar for beginners - no tuner required

Don't have a tuner lying around? Fear not! Learn this all-powerful alternate tuning the easy way

Impart a touch of sadness or melancholy to an otherwise happy and predictable-sounding progression

How to inject a sense of drama into your songwriting

Paul McCartney, David Gilmour, George Harrison, Tom Petty and many more have done this in their music, so why shouldn't you?

Learn how to walk down scales with contrary motion

In this lesson, learn some cool, musically effective things to play over a rather dark, intriguing set of chord changes

Learn how to use this somewhat painful- yet sweet-sounding chord to dramatic effect

Learn how to employ this restless yet alluring chord as a musical attention grabber.

Learn this neat, May and Gilmour-influenced guitar arrangement of “Moonlight Sonata.”

A patriotic guitar arrangement with pizzaz.

In the mood for a patriotic guitar workout this July 4th? Look no further.

Learn some interesting applications of this harmonic enigma, and a few ways to get more musical mileage out of it.

Some commonly used variations that adventurous musicians will often interject into their playing.

Learn some cool variations of this progression that feature added chord changes and spicier harmony and voice-leading.

Using movable and transposable four-note arpeggios to create fun and exciting runs.

Learn a few interesting applications of this harmonically unstable yet appealing chord.

A comprehensive primer on the topic of intervals, designed to give guitarists from any stylistic background a solid grasp on one of the foundational cornerstones of music.