Craig Winston Guitarist

I'm happy to announce I'll be continuing my music education at University of Denver's Lamont School of Music. I was awarded a scholarship to attend, and will begin my classical guitar studies there in September.

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In today’s online guitar lessons, we’ll look at the best ways to stay motivated, practice, and improve your technique during these strange times we live in. 

I had a talk with some friends the other day in which I asked…

In today’s guitar lesson I’m going to cover five simple ways to improve your pentatonic scales and make your soloing more interesting. This is a lesson that I’ve been doing with many of my students getting into rock and blues…

I made something of a breakthrough in my playing recently thanks to Dave Mustaine. Megadeth has always been my favorite metal band and a few years ago I saw them play at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. When they played…

I’ve neglected to update this page in a while, but I just wanted to give you some news about everything that I’m up to lately. 

My bands Thy Shade and The Union are both actively gigging in the Southwest having…

Interestingly enough, all things do converge in your favor so long as you keep the faith in the positive nature of your actions and the universe’s willingness to reciprocate. 

Go beyond the constraints of what you understand of yourself or…

This whole thing sounds intimidating, and I should say it’s not a simple thing to execute, but the concept, once divulged, will come across as exceedingly simple.  Today we’re going to talk about a 3-octave pentatonic scale using a couple…

Too many people get into music for the wrong reasons, their parents sign them up for guitar lessons or violin lessons etc. because they believe the hype that says that Music is going to make you better at math or…

This is a progress video of my work on “Shepherd of Fire” by Avenged Sevenfold.  I spent a good lot of my life being intimidated by learning things like this, but recently made a strong resolution to just keep working…

I’ve been missing for a while, very busy practicing I guess and not much creating.  I’ve learned a few things in all this time.  A few helpful points:

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, even though it…

Listen to Ep. 47 - Militia Vox (Judas Priestess) by Doc Coyle #np on #SoundCloud

I haven’t posted in a while…I’ve been adventuring and building websites…teaching a ton of lessons and trying to keep my bands together. My new routine for practice involves ireal pro, working on improv for about 30 minutes. If anything I…