What We're Up to This Summer

Now with free guitar resources

Things are busy here at Lessonface over these sweet summer months. Teachers are writing great pieces on a variety of topics for your reading pleasure. We had a booth at NAMM. We want to mail you some guitar reference materials, on us. If you're into it, read on.

Lessonface Notes Program Launches

Frequent visitors to these pages may have noticed a surge of great articles over the past month, written, for the most part, by teachers, and filed under "Notes." 

Duane Denison wrote about how to practice. Rod Ferreira pointed out the importance of knowing the notes on the fretboard. Patrick Neher wrote and shot a series of videos on methods to make playing the upright bass more musical. Liz Turner wrote about how to start reading piano music. Pat Cupo wrote about how to get started with Ableton. Ned Oldham wrote about how to change the strings on the guitar. Todd Isler just yesterday wrote about the role of the drummer.

We'll be releasing more of these on an ongoing basis. 

You'll see new pieces under the 'our latest news' section as they're posted, and you can view the complete list into a resources page, which you can see here.

If you have other topics you'd like to see examined in this format you can add them below in the comments, or write to us -- or the teacher you'd like to hear from -- directly. If you're a teacher and would like to get involved, please shoot me an email. Come on and join the conversation!

Summer NAMM Booth #131 Represented

A couple of Lessonface staff-members (specifically Ashford and I) just got back from summer NAMM in Nashville, which was awesome. We made this demo video (shot by Mike Saliba), which is worth watching because it is the shortest and most beautiful video you will see out of summer NAMM. It features not only a really lovely rendition of a Bach melody on mandolin by friend of Lessonface John Frazier, but also a guy on some new-fangled segway type contraption which defies what you think you understand about physics. 

You Get Mail -- if you want it and are in the US

If you're a guitarist based in the US, we'd like to send you 1-3 reference cards with the notes on the fretboard and the major and minor pentatonic positions. If you'd like to receive these, give us your address here. It's free - we have some extras and we'd like to get them in the hands of folks who would use them. 

Thanks for your interest and for checking out what we're up to at Lessonface. We have lots of new features and teachers in the works, so stay tuned!