The Steve Stine Podcast

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

My Overkill Gig Prep That Saves Rehearsals

Send Steve a Text Message Showing up to a gig with “the right notes” is not the same as showing up ready to perform. We walk through a real, working guitarist’s gig prep

Find Every Essential Chord In Any Key

Send Steve a Text Message Someone calls a chord progression like “1 6 4 5,” then says, “Cool, now let’s do it in A,” and suddenly your brain starts flipping through a me

Inside GuitarZoom Academy: A Real Student’s Experience

Send Steve a Text Message A lot of guitarists don’t quit because they stop loving music. They quit because life gets loud and practice gets messy. Steve Stine sits down

How To Find And Play Octaves Across The Guitar Neck

Send Steve a Text Message Octaves are one of those guitar “unlock” moments: suddenly the fretboard stops feeling like random dots and starts looking like a repeating pat

What If Progress Is Just Better Conversations

Send Steve a Text Message If you’ve ever felt buried under advice, tabs, tutorials, and “one more video,” this one is for you. We talk about the biggest mindset shift st