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Learn On Megadeth: 'Skin O' My Teeth' Guitar Solo Lesson With Chris Zoupa

Learn On Megadeth: 'Skin O' My Teeth' Guitar Solo Lesson With Chris Zoupa

By Kailash Pate April 24, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

Difficulty Level: Advanced Tuning: E A D G B E (Standard Tuning) When I first purchased the "Countdown to Extinction" album I was a pretty die hard fan of Metallica and thought that guitar solos just didn't get any better than Kirk Hammett (as I was a wee tot at...

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Learn To Use Intervals For Emotion - Part 3

Learn To Use Intervals For Emotion - Part 3

By April 24, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Tech Tips

Example for This Lesson Look at the pattern of coloured circles on this next diagram. The solid red circle, numbered zero, is placed at an arbitrary fret. The pattern shows it uses pitches that are two, three, four and ten semitones above the solid red circle (see how they are...

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Jeff Beck's Lead Guitar Style With Andrew Wasson

By April 21, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Jeff Beck is without argument one of the world's most famous guitar players. Both his compositions and his guitar playing style are quite diverse. He plays a unique blend of rock and jazz alongside of his own take on R&B and funk, as well as, blues. And, he does it...

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How To Avoid Mistakes As A Self-Taught Guitarist

How To Avoid Mistakes As A Self-Taught Guitarist

By Kailash Pate April 20, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

I used to really suck getting better at guitar. Actually, that's a pretty blatant understatement. I was a terrible self-teacher and progress was agonizingly slow. Back in high school, I lived and breathed rock music, so naturally I wanted to become a great guitarist. Unfortunately, I had to stop taking...

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Showing Your Work: The Difference Between 6 And 13

Showing Your Work: The Difference Between 6 And 13

By January 29, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

Were you ever discouraged in math class when you were deducted points for not adequately showing all of your work? It seemed like a trivial thing. The answer to 1 + 1 is 2. The answer would always be the answer - and that's all it can be! It's a...

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How To Take Any Song And Make A Really Cool Unplugged Acoustic Guitar Version Out Of It

How To Take Any Song And Make A Really Cool Unplugged Acoustic Guitar Version Out Of It

By Kailash Pate January 28, 2015 | Guitar Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Music Tech Tips

It has become more and more popular over the years to create unplugged acoustic versions of electric songs. Sometimes these acoustic versions you hear sound great, and other times they can kind of miss the mark, and end up sounding pretty average. It all comes down to how you approach...

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How To Make The Blues Scale Your Own

How To Make The Blues Scale Your Own

By January 28, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

When you start out playing blues guitar one of the most challenging things is to make the blues scale actually sound bluesy. It's one of those scales that require an extra effort in order to get some rewarding sounds out of it. You could learn a bunch of licks and...

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Improvising With Knowledge: Lesson 6

Improvising With Knowledge: Lesson 6

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

I am Greg Studley, and this is Lesson 6 of Improvising With Knowledge on Ultimate Guitar. These lessons are designed to get you accustomed to yet another pentatonic scale shape, which can be used as a major pentatonic scale or minor pentatonic scale when improvising. Here's what we've covered in...

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Neapolitan Chords: What They Are And How To Use Them

Neapolitan Chords: What They Are And How To Use Them

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

Hey guys, I decided to make a very random but informative video about Neapolitan Chords! These chords are my absolute favorite when it comes to chromatic harmony. Neapolitan Chords: Neapolitan Chords have a very distinct sound in the chord progression. A Neapolitan Chord is a bII chord. If we are...

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Sweep Picking Lesson: Starting From The Inside

Sweep Picking Lesson: Starting From The Inside

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

I'll keep this as short as possible. The motivation for this video is the fact that most lessons out there require you to perform sweeps in downward/upward motions. That means, you start either by picking the lower strings or the higher strings. Seldom never are you required to start from...

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Learn A Song : Iron Maiden - 'Aces High' Guitar Solo Lesson With Chris Zoupa

Learn A Song : Iron Maiden - 'Aces High' Guitar Solo Lesson With Chris Zoupa

By January 26, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Iron Maiden Tech Tips

Standard tuning: E A D G B E Level: Intermediate I've always loved this song. I just think the chorus is great. It's the kind of chorus you sing really loudly whilst quite intoxicated and embarrass your girlfriend in front of her friends and family. The solo in this song...

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Make It Musical: Etude Instead Of Just Practicing Exercises

Make It Musical: Etude Instead Of Just Practicing Exercises

By January 26, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons Guitar Tips Guitars Tech Tips

Practicing can be a lot less tedious when you play music instead of many exercises in a row. If you are having trouble with a certain technique, or want to explore what sort of musical capabilities the technique in question offers, you could try to come up with a little...

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