Eddie's Corner
Lessons and tips from our resident guru and guitar specialist, Eddie Berman.
Eddie’s Corner: Using a Graphic EQ to Reshape Your Solo Tone
In this installment of Eddie’s Corner, electric guitar specialist Eddie Berman shares some tips on using a graphic equalizer after your overdrive pedal to adjust your guitar sound. To demonstrate the changes you can make using a graphic EQ pedal, Eddie used an Xact...
Eddie’s Corner: 5 Slide Guitar Tips
Playing slide guitar might seem difficult at first, but our electric guitar specialist Eddie Berman has five helpful tips to make it easier. 1) Learn how to mute with both hands. A lot of people automatically drag their fingers behind the slide or play with an...
Eddie’s Corner: 6 Tips For Better Guitar Tuning
Tuning guitars is easier than ever. Players are now relying more and more on electronic tuners, rather than tuning by ear. But there are still many factors that can affect the outcome. “If you are tuning by ear, your ear is king,” says our very own electric guitar...
Eddie’s Corner: How To Play All Your Major Chords within Five Frets
Eddie shares a bit more of his magic mojo with us in this short tutorial covering how to play all the major chords within five frets to make it easier for soloing. This is a great method for playing over chord changes, and really just involves looking at chord shapes...
Eddie’s Corner: Add Some Flat 5 Spice to Your Solos
In this guitar lesson, our very own Eddie Berman goes over a simple way to add a little spice to your guitar vocabulary by adding a flat 5th to any scale. The flat 5 tone is heard a lot in blues, especially in the minor context, but it can also be used from a major...
Eddie’s Corner: Alternate Approaches to a I-iii-IV-V Chord Change in E
SoundPure’s Eddie Berman teaches an abridged approach to playing a 1-3-4-5 chord change in the key of E. Eddie demonstrates the chord change in both the classic “bar chord” fingering and in a condensed method. This lesson shows the viewer the sonic...