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Harmonizing The C Scale

By Kailash Pate May 07, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Mapping out the C scale. Let's memorize those whole and half steps with scale degrees as well. C step D step E half step F step G step B half step C. Step = 2 frets on the guitar, half step = 1 fret. Now in Roman numerals. Capital indicates...

Soloing With Three Pentatonic Scales In The Dorian Mode With Thomas Berglund

By May 07, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

In this lesson I'll show three pentatonic scales to soloing with in the Dorian mode. I'll be in the key of A minor (Dorian). The common pentatonic scale in that key is the A minor pentatonic scale. That's the first scale to come up when one starts to soloing in...

This Is Why You Suck At Guitar: Your Picking Patterns Suck, With Ben Eller

By May 05, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

Ladies! Gentlemen! Cyborgs of indeterminate sex! It's time for a brand new installment of "This is Why You Suck at Guitar." It's been far too long since Uncle Ben here dropped a TiWYSaG lesson on you guys, but what can i say? Touring and recording with Whitechapel, Unearth, Far Far...

Chromaticism And Swing Picking

By Kailash Pate May 05, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Solos Tech Tips

Using chromaticism with swing picking Hi Guys. I'm taking a break from interval-related theory, to show you some ideas for working with chromaticism and the technique of swing picking. This can really help open up a whole new world of sound and expression, building on the patterns you may know...

Gypsy Jazz Harmonics In The Style Of Django Reinhardt

By May 05, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

For a quick overview on how to play gypsy jazz, check out this excellent lesson by TheWall27! It covers all the basics. I will be focusing more directly on the harmonic and chords aspect. Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) was one of the most innovative guitarists of all time. At 18, he...

This Is Why You Suck At Guitar: Your Picking Patterns Suck, With Ben Eller

By May 05, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Soling With Chords - Part 1 With Jens Larsen

By May 05, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

In this lesson, I want to first demonstrate 4 exercises that you can use to gain the necessary vocabulary to solo over a turnaround with chords. I also give three examples of how I would make lines using the exercises (or actually chords in general). Voicings in a Scale Often...

Learn Phrasing With Multiple Modes

By April 30, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

In this lesson we discuss how to phrase melody lines over progressions that will leave the key centre to include the use of multiple modes. Modes are often thought of as being used within a single harmonic situation, such as in a, "modal progression." However, when modes are used in...

Learn The G Ionian Grace Note Lick With Chris Zoupa

By April 30, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

I was always pretty into rock and heavy metal as a whippersnapper. As I grew older though I found myself getting very used to the sound of pentatonics, diatonics and arpeggios working "in key." It wasn't till my mid-20s that I got infatuated with jazz and "outside notes" and of...

Learn To Create Fabulous Bass Fills By Thinking Rhythm 1st, Notes 2nd - Bass Lesson By Scott Whitley

By Kailash Pate April 27, 2015 | Bass Guitar Bass Guitars Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Tech Tips

In this video lesson I'll demonstrate how to start thinking more like a drummer/percussionist. The idea is to practice playing along with songs etc. Just tapping out rhythms on your knees, desk, steering wheel - whatever. Once you're into the idea of doing this, you can 'vocalize' these rhythmic ideas...

Learn On Adding 5ths And Octaves To Licks And Lines - Bass Lesson By Scott Whitley

By April 27, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

The aim of this lesson is to take licks, scales, bass lines etc that you already know and turn them into something new and cool by simply adding 5ths or octaves. If you don't know what a 5th or an octave is, for the sake of this lesson don't worry...

Learn To operation Shred Guitar II: Soloing On A 'Dead End Road'

By April 27, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

Hello once again fellow shredders, and welcome to Operation Shred Guitar II: Soloing on a Dead End Road! My name is Jake Popowski, and in this lesson, you will learn how to play my solo in "Dead End Road" by Damned Empire, and I will teach you about how I...