The Steve Stine Podcast

An iPad Setup That Saves The Show

Send Steve a Text Message The fastest way to lose confidence on stage is a simple problem that turns into a spiral: you don’t know the tune well enough, the arrangement

Does Going Wireless Change Your Guitar Tone? | CFG SonikSphere NEO

Send Steve a Text Message Fast chargers are everywhere, and that’s exactly why guitar wireless systems get accidentally killed. We talk through the Sonic Sphere Neal Wir

Basics of Ear Training Part 2

Send Steve a Text Message Can you tell major from minor with your eyes closed? That single skill can change how fast you learn songs by ear, how confident you feel in a

More Than Guitar: The Tommy Armstrong-Leavitt Story

Send Steve a Text Message A lot of guitar careers are built around louder stages, bigger rigs, and the next gig. Tommy Armstrong Levitt’s path gets there too, but it tak

Basics of Ear Training Part 1

Send Steve a Text Message If someone says “This one’s in G” and your brain goes blank, this will give you a simple map you can actually use. We’re kicking off a practica

Play Better Blues Solos in Just ONE Position

Send Steve a Text Message Your blues can sound bigger without moving your hand at all. Steve Stine (GuitarZoom Academy) shows how to get real, melodic blues phrasing by

A Simple Warm-Up Routine For Arthritis And Finger Stiffness

Send Steve a Text Message Stiff fingers can make you doubt your playing before you even play a note, and that frustration is often avoidable. We walk through a practical

Playing Guitar With Stiff Hands or Arthritis? Try This!

Send Steve a Text Message Your guitar shouldn’t feel like a hand-strength contest, but a lot of players unknowingly make it one. We dig into the fastest ways to make gui

Major And Minor Pentatonic Made Simple

Send Steve a Text Message Major pentatonic and minor pentatonic get treated like separate skills, but that mindset slows down your playing. We break the whole thing down

Turn A Five-Note Box Into A Full Scale

Send Steve a Text Message Pentatonic scales can feel like a cheat code because almost anything you play “works” but that safety can also keep your solos from sounding li

Gritty Blues Bends

Send Steve a Text Message I went Live on Social Media with this, so if you are interested in watching the video, here it is: https://youtube.com/live/IaBZQVuPCDI?feature

Outdoor Guitar Survival Guide

Send Steve a Text Message Your guitar can feel rock solid indoors, then completely unravel the moment you roll up to an outdoor gig. Heat, humidity, and direct sun push

Four Practical Steps To Make A Major Pentatonic Solo Musical

Send Steve a Text Message Your major key solo sounds “happy,” but it does not sound believable. That is the gap we close here, using a track in A major and a chord progr

Stop Panicking And Start Organizing Your Gig Prep

Send Steve a Text Message Thirty songs for Saturday. A totally different set for Monday. No rehearsals. If that sounds familiar, you already know the real enemy isn’t yo

Why Your Guitar Solos Don't Sound Musical (And How to Fix Them)

Send Steve a Text Message Your guitar solo can have the “right” notes and still feel wrong. The gap is usually groove. We jump into a practical, no-hype approach to solo

A Practical Plan For Learning Guitar As An Adult

Send Steve a Text Message You can love guitar for decades and still feel like you’re spinning your wheels. Ken joins me to talk through that exact frustration, from year

King Of Guitar Rabbit Holes Learns To Focus

Send Steve a Text Message Your hands know what to do until someone is watching, and then everything tightens up. That’s where this conversation with Stan goes immediatel

Learning Guitar After Retirement

Send Steve a Text Message You can spend 30 years with a guitar in your hands and still feel like you’re guessing. That’s why this conversation with Perry lands so hard.

How to Collaborate Remotely (Even If You’ve Never Done It Before)

Send Steve a Text Message Remote collaboration sounds like magic until you try it and realize the real challenge is boring: everyone needs the same roadmap, the same tem

Never Too Late For Lead Guitar

Send Steve a Text Message A kid gets a guitar with strings so high it’s basically unplayable, struggles for two years, and then hears the sentence that can haunt a music