Nail Guitar Blog

Michael Winslow of 'Police Academy' shows off his amazing skills on a jam of Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love'.

In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired. Listening to Bobby McFerrin sing may be hazardous to your preconceptions. Side effects may include unparalleled joy, a new perspective on creativity, rejection of the predictable, and a sudden, irreversible urge to lead a more spontaneous existence.

In this video the amazing Guthrie Govan shows off his one handed guitar skills and shows just how much can be done with just one hand.

What can you say but wow. I cant even think at half that speed let alone getting your body to do that! World's Fastest Guitar Player Taylor Sterling demonstrates his abilities on the guitar at Allans Music/Billy Hydes in Melbourne. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS CLAIM I.D: 374497 At the current Time Guinness World Records has frozen the fastest guitar player world record due to the fact it is under-going new rules to verify the accuracy in the speeds being played and if no resolution is found the record will be discontinued.

Damn! What a killer combination... Keith Urban and John Mayer ripping it up like no ones business! Sooo much soul...

A performance from the original American Alternative/Rocktronica band, Pinn Panelle, demonstrating how to replicate an electronic artist's music on live instruments. This is "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" by Skrillex, his YouTube channel is: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOfficialSkrillex There are no sequences, or backing tracks playing behind the band.

Taken from the awesome documentary guitar movie ' It Might Get Loud ', U2's The Edge and his guitar tech Dallas Schoo soundchecking Edge's guitar rig. Deleted scene off It Might Get Loud. Songs performed: Until The End Of The World, Pride (In The Name Of Love), Bad

Matt Corby comes into Triple J radio to give the first Australian Like A Version performance of 2012. He starts of with a roaring acoustic version of his track 'Brother' and then slows it down for a cover of The Black Keys' latest song 'Lonely Boy'.

The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they'd play the right note no matter where they were struck. For more information and behind-the-scenes footage, see http://www.LetsDoThis.com and http://www.okgo.net . Many thanks to Chevy for believing in and supporting such an insane and ambitious project, and to Gretsch for providing the guitars and amps.

Great to see Jon Gomm getting the attention he deserves. As with many people, the first time I heard Passionflower my reaction also was 'wow'. An interesting little bit of insight into his thoughts and views aswell. You can check out more of Jon's work at http://www.jongomm.com

A crazy yet talented European guy demos the Boss RC300.

The breathtakingly talented ANDY JAMES joins the ranks of the jamtrackcentral guitar wizard army with this debut series of mind blowing Metal jams. Andy James Custom Metal Series One is packed with more licks than you could ever dream of ever trying to shake a stick at! This package will contain.. 5 mp4 Video's of Andy playing Live in the jamtrackcentral Studio 5 Audio tracks of the solos 5 backing tracks of the actual performance 5 Long extended backing tracks 5 totally accurate transcription in notation and TAB format Sign up to our newsletter to be kept in the loop.. http://www.jamtrackcentral.com/index.php

8 year old mini band guitarist Zoe Thomson working on Stratosphere! Check out this amazing little metal guitarist in action. Zoe has some seriously tidy technique for her age. Definitely one to look out for in the years to come.

To celebrate the launch of my good friend Thomas Leeb's Facebook page he is giving you not 1 but 3 chances to win a copy of his new album 'No Alibis'. All you need to do is like his Facebook page. Easy huh! Click the button below and you'll be in the running. Winners announced March 1st on the Thomas Leeb Facebook page. I recently completed uploading the series of videos I shot with him. Check them out below!

I remember once joking with a mate how cool it would be to use the tuners on your guitar to chance notes mid song. The joke is over cos Jon Gomm does it for real... and REALLY freakin well! Prepare to be wowed... (jump straight to 57 seconds for all the action.) Learn to play the blues with a FREE 10 part video lessons course HERE

Sending a person to this video is going to be my default response for anyone who tells me their hands are to small for guitar :) So other than having your parents force you to practice 3 hours a day from the age of 3, is there a better way to learn the guitar and actually enjoy it? Check out Rocksmith, available for Xbox 260, PS3 and PC. Buy Rocksmith HERE

People are always asking is there another way to be a guitar god than spending years and years practicing the guitar. Here's your answer... but I dare say the years and years bit still applies :)

Some amazing acoustic percussion guitarists in this fantastic video including Don Ross, Jon Gomm and of course Thomas Leeb. Learn to play the blues with a FREE 10 part video lessons course HERE

A clever piece of viral advertising for the new real life guitar game Rocksmith where a baby is allegedly place an electric guitar all by itself... If your asking 'is it real?' the answer is no its a hoax... but a very clever one designed to create curiosity about the up coming real life guitar game Rocksmith. Its certainly achieved the aim of going viral but when looking at the video comments below it on youtube I cant find one actually questioning 'what is Rocksmith?' Virality = Win, Advertising Effectiveness = Fail. Learn to play the blues with a FREE 10 part video lessons course HERE

The wonders of a delay pedal never grow old, here Ewan Dobson plays a trance song with the aid of his delay pedal and acoustic guitar. Delay pedals were traditionally very pricey pedals but these days they have come down in price considerably. See below for the best prices on some great units including the favourite of many players, the BOSS digital delay.