Even if you don’t quite recognise the name Marty Schwartz, you’ll probably have ended up stumbling across his hugely popular Marty Music YouTube videos – viewed in their millions and helping players learn classics riffs, solos and techniques. The fedora-loving educator’s influence is so vast, Epiphone just announced they would be awarding him with his own ES-335 signature. We figured he’d be a great person to tap up for this month’s tips-based issue…
Before you started on YouTube, you were a guitar teacher. What’s the biggest mistake all guitarists make?
“There are two things that come to mind. The first one is rhythm in general. Guitar out in the wild – not in your bedroom but performing and playing with other people – is 90 per cent rhythm. I’d say a lot of people skip that stuff out. When you watch someone on Instagram or on stage, the most exciting
