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Learn To Sweep Pick In One Week

By July 22, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars

In my opinion, 90% of guitar players fail because their lack of discipline and believing in themselves. I got a solution - they should believe that it's possible to learn difficult thing like sweep pick in one week with very simple exercises step by step. For example I took A...

Soloing Scales To The Dominant Chord With Thomas Berglund

By July 22, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars

The dominant chord is an important chord in improvisation and in music in general. You can experiment a lot with the dominant chord regarding to scales and chord shapes. In this lesson I'll talk about three scales that work very good to use when you improvise. I'll show them in...

Conquering The Fretboard - Part 1

By July 21, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This lesson shows how the guitar tuning dictates shapes we get on the guitar, and shows how we arrive at the various octave shapes, which in turn break a 12-fret block of the guitar into 5 regions. Getting to know where these regions exist is a good way to reduce...

Diatonic Exercise No. 3 With George Salas

By July 21, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Hey guys, this exercise involves 9ths up and down the fretboard using the lower strings. I hope you enjoy and please rate and comment! Tips: Memorize your three shapes first. Trwy and incorporate these into your on compositions! The only different shapes (in a diatonic major key) will be your...

Modes For Rock And Metal Guitar Riffs Lessons

By July 21, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Modes are one of the most important harmonic and melodic ideas used by guitar players and we need to study them so we have a solid handle on how we can use them to the best of our ability. In certain styles of music, (such as rock and metal), modes...

Delivering Your Art

By July 16, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Live Sound Live Soung Guide Stage Studio

Welcome UG readers to this lesson on live performance. I went through sitting in my room for hours just practicing my techniques. Getting the drills right, learning songs and riffs and getting a sound for my songwriting. Started a metal band, we spent a long time getting material and getting...

Back by Popular Demand!

By July 15, 2015 | Back in demand Category_Buying Guide>Live Sound Category_Buying Guide>Recording Gear Handheld Microphone. Harmonica Microphones Pedal Turner Portable Recorder Strings

Have you waited long for your favorite products? Well wait no more! Your favorite products are now back in stock! ZOOM H1 PORTABLE DIGITAL RECORDER: Zoom H1 is a pocket-sized 24-bit, 96kHz recorder that provides a high-end X/Y microphone set that allows you to record anything you want! With a...

2 String Sweeps With Descending Shred Lick

By July 15, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

I was mucking around with some 2 string arpeggios and just messing with your standard 1, 3, 5 triad over 3 octaves and decided to add a descending run. I put a few different arpeggios together based on a chord progression in E minor with a cheeky moment or harmonic...

Lick Wars - Episode 1 - The 'Bend Face Rocker' Lick [Lessons]

By July 14, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This is a great lick to learn! It has a pure '70s rock ballad vibe in it. Expression is the key here. Pay attention to vibratos, bends and rhythm as well. Also be careful with the ''pre-bends'' here. In a pre-bend, you bend the string before you pick it. If...

Diatonic Exercise No. 2 With George Salas

By July 14, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Hey guys, here's a short lesson on single string pedal point shapes. It is all in C major but as usual, I urge you to apply this to every key and string. A pedal point is a note that is either sustained (usually heard in organ pieces and usually a...

Bajaao Recommends - M Audio Vocal Studio Pro II

By Kailash Pate July 13, 2015 | Category_Buying Guide>Recording Gear

We did mention in our previous blog that M-Audio has always been a trusted brand with musicians and it is only plausible that M-Audio introduces an ‘all-in-one’, most handy computer recording projects. The best in class, M-Audio Vocal Studio II Pro lets you do whatever you need! You can lay...

Turnarounds Part 1 - With Jens Larsen [Lessons]

By July 13, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena

In this lesson I want to talk about the I VI II V turnaround and what you can play over it and how you can practice it. The lesson will give you some exercises and suggestions to make strong melodic lines using diatonic arpeggios and target notes. Turnarounds are progressions...