Why is following a tempo so darn hard?

So, I figured I’d play a couple of excercises to help me coordinate my left hand with my picking, jump between strings and most importantly, help me program and lock in on a tempo. I started out easy and simply messing around with some pentatonic / blues scales at a relatively slow tempo -plugged [...]

Messing with the E Harmonic Minor & a simple chord progression

What do I do when I get bored? Well…I hook up a drum machine (ALESIS SR-16), my Line6 POD 2.0, my trusty TASCAM US-144 USB A/D D/A audio inteface all into a small 12 channel mixer. I pick whatever guitar is closer, and I mess around. Don’t get me wrong, there is no particular [...]

Chaos (Driver Waiting) unfinished

Here is another, rather long, mix I finished last night. I was just trying to play with a little easy guitar riff and some dissonance as an experiment. I was quite happy with the result because it proves that you not always have to play within ‘proper’ harmonies. This track might wind up in [...]

Marco Sfogli: There is Hope in Italy

Italy's prog-rock guitar virtuoso

Here is another interesting album I recently discovered not long ago by pure chance (google rocks!). “There is Hope” is a concoction of styles, which to me, are highly recognizable on some of my other guitar heroes. But more on that later, first lets meet the artist.

Marco [...]