3 Tips To Improve Your Improvisation WiredGuitarist May 14, 2019 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized Jazz. That’s what comes to mind when we think of improvisation. We think of two old guys with hollow body guitars playing some “diddly-doo-boop” kind of lines with a clean tone, and we all know how...
Metal and Music Theory: What People Don’t Understand WiredGuitarist January 11, 2019 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized Music theory is a dirty word to anyone outside the circles of jazz and classical. But why? Is it too hard? Is it not relevant to the genre? There’s no simple answer to these things, but we’re going...
Shred Lessons: Songwriting WiredGuitarist July 23, 2016 Articles, The Woodshed How do you get good at guitar quickly? How about without getting bored, or even worse, being totally confused? Do you want to know how to shred? Shred Lessons with Cannon McDonald, our weekly series helps...
Wired Theory : Chords 101 WiredGuitarist July 7, 2016 Articles, The Woodshed, Tutorials, Uncategorized Welcome back to another publication of Wired Theory! We’re going to continue exploring scales and chords as we started last week. If you have not read my article on Intervals, as well as last week’s...
7 Easy Ways to Beat Songwriter’s Block WiredGuitarist May 29, 2016 Articles, The Woodshed, Tutorials, Uncategorized Hey everyone! Welcome to this special edition of Songwriting & You! Over the past few weeks, we’ve been talking about different ways to approach the songwriting process from different angles in order to...
Songwriting & You: Don’t Think Like a Guitarist WiredGuitarist May 15, 2016 Articles, The Woodshed, Uncategorized Welcome back to Songwriting & You! I’m sure all of you are currently working on your next big hits right now! And I am absolutely excited to hear them. Last week, we talked about stepping away from...