Tosin Abasi Prog Rock Riff | Guitar Lesson
This riff screams “Tosin Abasi” and is inspired by typical Animals As Leaders style tapping. What make’s it so interesting is the multiple melodies that are fused into one riff,…
Keeping Motivation as a Guitarist
Balance, Patience and Consistency. Truly these are three methods you should always remember to apply when entering the crazed world of Music! No matter who you are or where you’re…
Bearded Blues Lick: Bending | Blues Guitar Lesson
Bends carry a lot of emotion and feel. That is why solos usually begin or end with tasteful bending. You can bend a note up e.g. from the 7th fret…
The Bearded Bluesman: Ruan Graaff
Guitar Excellence had the privilege of recording some awesome blues licks with Ruan Graaff. So we decided to ask him a few questions about his influences and about his guitar…
Time Signature | Theory Video Lesson
Up until now you’ve been mostly working with and playing in the time signature of 4/4. This is also known as ‘common time’. To better understand time signatures, let’s take…
Playing Live As An Artist
If you’re a solo artist or in a band who’s currently playing live, and you have any serious intentions of succeeding in the music industry, then what you play when…
Setting Up Your Own Electric Guitar
Many of you new guitarists out there who can only afford basic entry-level electric guitars, get really disheartened when you pick up your friends’ guitars that are 3 times the…
Basic Lead Guitar Technique | Guitar Lesson
In this video, we will be doing an overview of the basic lead guitar techniques in the upcoming lessons. There are a lot of techniques to be covered so we…
Guitarists You Should Be Listening To
Listening to great guitarists can do wonders for your own playing. Whether you play the same genre as these guitarists or not, and even whether you would ever use the same techniques…
How To Read Guitar Tabs – Theory 101
In this video we are learning how to read guitar tabs (short for ‘tablature’) – a simpler way of reading music for guitarists. Below you will see a diagram consisting…
A Guitar Excellence Pupil
Meet Murray. He has been a Guitar Excellence pupil for a few months and this video was taken after 2 months with us. We think he rocks. If you would…
Practicing Guitar Without a Guitar
Most pupils really just don’t have the time for practicing guitar as much as they would like to. What most people don’t realize, however, is that practicing guitar is as much…