If you have never thought much about always-on pedals, you are not alone. But once you start experimenting with them, it is hard to go back. An always-on pedal is not about adding a dramatic effect to your sound. It is about enhancing and customizing your base clean tone so that everything you play sounds and feels better from the moment you plug in. Here is a rundown of my favorite categories and the specific pedals I keep coming back to.

Here’s the thing: great-sounding acoustic recordings aren’t about having a professional studio. They’re about understanding a handful of principles and applying them with whatever gear you have. I’ve recorded songs that ended up on the radio from a two-bedroom apartment with blankets hanging off light stands. Let me show you how.

I just finished recording my latest original fingerstyle song, and it's up on YouTube now. I want you to be the first to hear it.

When you learn the CAGED system the right way, built on the open chord shapes you already know and taken one step at a time, it changes everything about how you see and play the guitar. Here are five reasons why.

Have you tried to learn the CAGED system before and ended up more confused than when you started? Unfortunately, that’s pretty normal. The way most teachers present CAGED almost guarantees you'll feel overwhelmed. You get handed a diagram with all five shapes laid out across the fretboard in every key, with no clear starting point and no sense of what to actually do with it. Of course that feels impossible. In this week's video, we break down the two things that can make CAG

If you've ever seen a CAGED diagram and thought "I have absolutely no idea what I'm looking at", you're in good company. It's one of the most talked about concepts in guitar and also one of the most poorly explained. In this week's video we fix that. Let's break down exactly what the CAGED system is, why it matters, and how you can start applying it to your playing right away, without burning out or taking on too much at once.