Help! My Fat Fingers are Muting the Guitar Strings!

One of the most common problems that beginner guitarists experience is the “fat finger” issue. I put it into quotation marks, because 95% of the time, it’s not a real problem, just a newbie thing. No matter whether they have short and chubby fingers, or long and skinny ones, beginners will always have difficulty fretting…

Should a guitarist learn standard music notation, or just guitar tablature?

One of my online students just wrote me a letter, asking whether he needs to learn to read standard music notation, or is tablature enough. …a few guys locally who are in the local music biz and they all tell me that guitar, or any other instrument for that matter, should only be taught with the standard music notation……