Recent content by jerotas

Touring is better, alas can't do it any more. Lol, not letting robots take my glory!

I did Warmoth when I was starting out, but admittedly I don't use it anymore since I got my McNaught guitar. Just trying to put out quality instruction for free in my very limited free time. Something that didn't exist when I started out.

Learn the notes of the fretboard, here are some tips to make it easier! Part of my beginner guitarist lesson series. Enjoy! -Brian

Hey everyone! This latest beginner guitar lesson will show you how to find the chords in any scale or key. This does work for all keys! Thanks for checking out, and I hope it's helpful :) -Brian

Hey! I made a video outlining the 5 tuning methods I know about. Some of these may be new even to experienced folk. Definitely useful for beginners. Enjoy, and more content coming very soon!

Hey everyone! I started a "guitar lessons for absolute beginner" Youtube lesson series. After watching the top videos for similar keywords, I firmly believe mine is the most comprehensive video on the subject. I cover everything from how to hold the pick and guitar to hand position, left and...

This is the follow up to our popular Dio spoof "Reindeer in the dark" (also on YouTube). Both were requested and played on 99.9 KISW radio and not gonged (meaning they were of good quality). Today we're proud to present "Master of Christmas", which is a Metallica spoof on Master of Puppets...

If there's a better sub-forum to post this in, please let me know. New guitar lesson video is up! This time we're delving into (hard) classical piano and organ licks from Bach and Beethoven, transcribed by yours truly for the electric guitar! This is from back in my college days when I was...

Haha, I never really had pedals, because I always went for the multi-fx units. Yes I had a separate foot controller, so one "pedal" I suppose. I had a wah wah before that but nothing after. I was always into the digital offerings, not tube offerings, because I couldn't stand the idea of being...

Crate solid state amp! Haha memories. That sounds more like my experience. Eventually I wanted an acoustic, didn't understand the hype for the longest time lol. I agree, who knows if I'd be half the player if I started on acoustic. And spot on, I would not have practiced 6 hour days in high...

Very cool. I had a dude that worked at the place I took my first guitar lessons, and he showed me Dimeola, Vai and others. I knew only Satch at the time.

That's me! I write and eat left handed, but I play guitar right handed. I've tried both ways, it's definitely better this way. However, however...I don't agree that guitar handed-ness should be the picking band. I think it should be the fret hand. Much more complex there. Not really sure why...

Hellll yes. Some of my best material is composed 50% of mistakes that were recorded. Great story!

Totally valid. You don't have to turn on any pedals or even distortion on electric. But it's too tempting lol.

It's not just parents. Many teachers give the same advice. Many players also do. I'm challenging "conventional wisdom" here with what I've actually seen being in the community for 35 years, plus other gotchas.