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Diatonic Exercise With George Salas

By July 07, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Hey guys! I hope you enjoy this exercise. I use this one to practice alternate picking and speed while staying in a key. Diatonic Exercise 1 This exercise is in the key of C major and is demonstrated both ascending and descending. Make sure that your shifts are clean and...

Learn Jazz Blues Chord Solo With Jens Larsen

By July 02, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This lesson is a short etude, a chord solo on an F blues. You should be able to use it as inspiration and resource to make your own chord solos but if it was played less dense it will also work well for comping. Chord solos is a great thing...

Modes: Tonal Note Focus

By July 01, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Guitar players can apply scales/modes much more effectively if the modes' pitches are focused directly from off of their appropriate "tonal note." This way, guitar players can create a strong tie-in to the shape of the scale/mode directed toward any other associated patterns possible for use along with the mode....

Tips To Help You Master Barre Chords

By June 29, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Hello and welcome to this lesson which I've purposely written for beginners. This time I'm going to address a topic that is relevant for each guitarist out there who wishes to play along to his favourite songs and even write his own music. The topic at hand is barre chords...

Three Octave Modes [Lessons]

By June 29, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Hello everybody! Here is a great lesson to use to play scales diagonally as opposed to playing vertically all the time. Be sure you review my past lesson on 3 Notes per String as this will help you very much through this. Hope you enjoy! Before viewing this lesson, be...

Learn 'Mother' Guitar Solo Lesson With Chris Zoupa

By June 29, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Level: Beginner/Intermediate Tuning: E A D G B E (Standard) Who didn't love crusin' around in GTA San Andreas listening to this song and whomping people with baseball bats and ramming pedestrians with a motor bike? Lots of good times. I always loved this song and had an epiphany recently......

Tips To Help You Master Bar Chords

By June 29, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars

Learn Intermediate Guitar Arpeggios

By June 24, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This weeks lesson takes a look into the world of arpeggios on the fingerboard, (an area often neglected by guitar players). Arpeggio patterns on the guitar neck may be neglected due to the fact that the arpeggio shapes can be somewhat more difficult to easily fret-out on the guitar neck...

Learn Minor Pentatonic Position Method

By June 18, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This weeks lesson takes a look at performing substitutions with diatonic pentatonic scale ideas. This is an easy idea to work on that can produce a fresh new sound into any solo or melody line. How This Works For example, if we performed an, A minor, chord (as a looped...

How To Avoid Getting Rusty When You Can't Play Guitar [Lessons]

By June 17, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

If I'm being honest with myself, I'd say that I've gone through several long periods where guitar was a secondary - even tertiary - part of my life. Sure, ever since I started playing at 13, I've always proudly identified myself as a guitarist, but in reality, my involvement with...

C# Minor Pentatonic Tap Lick With Chris Zoupa

By June 15, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

I was messing around with a pentatonic and started messing around with some taps. I found that if I tapped 4 frets up from the most common box shape of the minor pentatonic that all the notes were in key. But some of the tapped notes weren't just out of...

Learn Rock Guitar Soloing

By June 10, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This time I will cover a few of the basic ideas involved with entering into the world of playing rock lead guitar and how to solo over rock music in general. It presupposes that viewers have already tried doing some soloing within the style of blues. Rock songs will almost...