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 in [...]

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 reason [...]

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 the [...]

Marco Sfogli: There is Hope in Italy

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 Sfogli, born in Italy in 1980 (makes [...]