Weeks of March 1 - March 15
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Tune into this week's "In The Pocket" for the latest TrueFire news and grooves (click image on the left to play video). Check out the schedule below, or on our home page, for this week's featured lessons, videos and inspiration. New this week -- we now have a TrueFire page on Facebook for all of our Facebook social networking friends. Got a Facebook account? Let's be friends!

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Happenings on TrueFire TrueFire TV Features New Video Courses
Hot Forum Thread
Feb 28 - Mar 14
Is theory like the IRS, one more thing to dread in your life? If so check out forum guru Beboy's wonderful Easy Theory thread. Complete with tax free lesson plans!

Test Your Rock IQ!
January 28 - April 7
Rachel (AKA Gigglefudge) worked up another killer IQ promo that's bigger and badder than ever! This time you get a shot at a G&L Invader and she's even worked in some weekly spiffs to reward the most creative responders. Test your Rock IQ!

Hot! Fire Sales
Feb 28 - Mar 14
Pick up this week's hot Fire Sale deals and save big bucks on Blues Architect and Fingerstyle Finesse!

New Video Courses
Feb 28 - Mar 14
Joe Dalton has assembled 100 essential twang guitar techniques, phrases, variations and cool moves. Get yer twang on!


Beginners Rejoice!
TrueFire's Learn Guitar in 21 Days is our free gift to anyone interested in learning how to play guitar and hundreds of their favorite songs in just 21 days. No hoax man - learn now!

Recently launched courses:
Jazz Combustion
CAGED Dominant
Chord Cookbook
Inversion Excursion
Guide to Great Guitar
Bass Basics
Blues in a Day
Folk in a Day

Featured Audio Guitar Lesson
Feb 28 - Mar 14
Home recording for musicians is fast becoming a trademark of the century. If you're not doing it already, you'll be doing it soon enough after this lesson. Bluesman Red Lasner explores the free recording software from Audacity in this week's audio lesson. Get audacious!

Brad Carlton's Complete Guide to Boogie Woogie Vol. 1
Feb 28 - Mar 14
Boogie-woogie emerged during the early 20th century as a piano based blues characterized by rolling, powerful bass lines and a dance worthy rhythm. It has since become one of the most valuable tools in the guitarist’s shed. This is the first volume in the series.

Spotlight: Unknown Hinson & Andy Summers

Feb 28 - Mar 14

Unknown Hinson has been boiling in the cauldron for almost a decade. Now, he’s taking his maniacal sound from the trailer park to a psychobilly freak show near you. Also, Andy Summers reads from his memoirs, covering the Police years and beyond.

On-Demand Webcasts
Some of our favorite educators and guitar heroes at the click of a button. See what's playing now...

GearBox: Nik Huber & GHS Acoustic
Feb 28 - Mar 14

German luthier Nik Huber and his team of 5 highly skilled specialists are building around 120 instruments a year. You might wonder, "why so few?" Well, it's because they're all hand-crafted. Also, Gary Hoey detangles the mystery behind GHS' famed acoustic strings.

Chop Suey: Jeff McErlain Meet & Greet
Feb 28 - Mar 14
After Berklee, this artist hit the ground running! Now he spends his days teaching, touring the globe, writing books, performing with bands, yet still finds the time to make a solo record. This guy knows guitar!

Learn to play guitar with this free beginner's course from TrueFire. Ravi will teach you all you need to know to play hundreds of your favorite songs on guitar -- 8 simple chords, a few simple strums and a basic understanding of how music works. And its free!

We're not going to make you struggle through tedious theory or exercises. You don't need to know how to read or write music. You'll simply play along with the instructor following a 21 day video lesson plan. You'll learn new chords and strums along the way, which you can immediately start using to play songs.
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Tip Jar: Jazz Combustion Lights Up #1 Spot on our Jazz Charts!


Jazz Combustion breaks down higher improvisational concepts such as chord voice selection, chordal movement, target tones, chord substitution, motifs, pacing, scat vocal techniques and outside playing, all while retaining the vibe of the prevailing tune’s melody and harmonic structure.

Swedish jazz guitar phenom Andreas Oberg shows you how to effectively tie these and other key concepts into your playing while guiding you to develop your own voice. "The goal of this course is to illustrate the way that I look at jazz improvisation and comping. I have selected five different chord progressions and styles that are very common within the jazz repertoire (fast bebop, jazz blues, funk, ballad and jazz waltz). I’ll first perform over that progression and then break it down for you, revealing the ideas and concepts behind the performance.”

Jazz Combustion is an indispensable resource for taking your improvisational skills to the next level, not only for jazz guitarists, but guitarists from any discipline where improvisation is the name of the game.

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