My kids are obsessed with taking their vitamins. Not because they give a shit about their health, but because their vitamins are gummy bears. Metalessons are like gummy vitamins for your guitar playing. Every bit as much fun, but better for you than pure sugary candy. What are the vitamins in this analogy? Every song […]
Finish What Ya Started
Tab, Sheet Music, Backing Track, Lesson, & Analysis Welcome to a different kind of guitar lesson. The kind that needs… a table of contents? How This Works Tiny Little Soapbox Rant The Tones The Chart The Stems Practice Strategies Techniques The Solo How This Works I want to give you better tools for learning songs […]
How To Slow Down Audio In Logic Pro X
Really easy to do… once you enable the control that allows it. Preferences > Advanced > Show Advanced Tools View > Customize Control Bar and Display under LCD, select “Custom” from the dropdown enable Varispeed by checking the box now there’s a “Speed Only +/-0.00%” window you can use to drag the tempo up or […]
How To Spice Up Your Soloing With Chromaticism
If I throw a ball to you, your brain performs some fairly sophisticated calculus in order to catch it. But at no point are you formally running through equations with acceleration vectors and parabolas and all that shit. It’s automatic. And fun. You can use physics to describe playing catch with your kid. But math […]
Should You Buy Tom Quayle’s Sølo App?
A couple weeks ago, fusion guitarists Tom Quayle & David Beebee released a new guitar app called Sølo. In this review, we’ll cover: what it does why you might want that a brief tangent about “easy” who this is for what they did well with Sølo what still needs work what I think you should do […]