Everybody Wants To Rule The World – Performance Video

This is a video of me playing the tune “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” by Tears For Fears. This arrangement was done by Andy McKee.. If you don’t know of him already, go check him out! Please leave comments below and let me know what you think....

Adam Rafferty – Study With Adam Review

In this video I talk about Adam Rafferty’s website for learning Fingerstyle Guitar. It’s DEFINITELY something to check out. Watch the video to learn why and then click on the link below to check it out! Here’s the link to go check out Adam...

Closer To The End – Mike Deiure Performance

So I recently finished writing a new tune and it’s called “Closer To The End”. I grabbed a camera and went to my favorite place to play and practice to shoot a video of me performing it. Check it out and please let me know what you think by leaving...

Warm Up Exercise 3

Welcome to the Soloing Skillz – Warm Up series! These lessons will teach you some of the best exercises you can do to warm up your fingers and get you ready for a great practice/playing session. They will also help you improve your speed, accuracy and technical...

Warm Up Exercise 2

Welcome to the Soloing Skillz – Warm Up series! These lessons will teach you some of the best exercises you can do to warm up your fingers and get you ready for a great practice/playing session. They will also help you improve your speed, accuracy and technical...

Warm Up Exercise 1

Welcome to the Soloing Skillz – Warm Up series! These lessons will teach you some of the best exercises you can do to warm up your fingers and get you ready for a great practice/playing session. They will also help you improve your speed, accuracy and technical...

The Pentatonic Minor Scale

This covers the following topics: Why a minor Pentatonic minor works. How a minor Pentatonic minor works. Where to play a Pentatonic minor. Who uses a Pentatonic minor? How to carefully craft solos using the pentatonic minor. What is a pentatonic? Pentatonic minor...

The Major Pentatonic Scale

This covers the following topics: Why a Pentatonic works. How a Pentatonic works. Where to play a Pentatonic. Who uses a Pentatonic? How do they use the pentatonic? What is a pentatonic? Pentatonic scales should not be a mystery.  A pentatonic scale is not something...

All About String Bending

Bending strings causes the pitch of the note fretted to change to a higher pitch. Most commonly strings are bent a whole step (to sound like the note 2 frets higher) But sometimes they can be bent just ½ step (sounds like 1 fret higher) or even higher: 1 ½ steps...

Practicing Effectively For Quicker Progress – Part 1

Its important to get the most out of your time and effort no matter what you are trying to accomplish,musically or otherwise. You’ve probably stuff like heard this before but I’ll repeat it for you anyway…You’ve got to plan and then take action...