Any Style Guitar Lessons

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4:24 Introduction to Guitar Instructor: Matt Cloak Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Welcome to beginner guitar! If you're just getting started with the guitar, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial section, we are going to cover the basics, including: Playing an instrument, and its benefits Different parts...
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11:22 Playing Basic Notes Instructor: Matt Cloak Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this section, we will learn how to play a note on the fretboard and finger placement. We'll cover how to hold the guitar pick and how to pick the strings downward, as well as upward. Some key points to keep in mind are: The strings ...
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6:31 Playing Some Chords Instructor: Matt Cloak Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this section, we will learn about chords. Chords are when play muiltiple notes at one time. This involves picking multiple strings at once, which is called strumming. We will learn how to strum downwards and upward...
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3:47 Free Pentatonic Pathways - Intro to the Scale Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hey Guys! First we're going to look at the basic Pentatonic scale, then how to expand on it over the fretboard. The Pentatonic is the essential lead guitar player's tool for crafting great, memorable solos! In this first section, we'll look at the ...
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5:36 Free Pentatonic Pathways - Extending the Scale Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style In this second section, we'll look at how to add "extension" boxes on to the normal box shape we covered in the first section. This will allow you to cover a lot of fretboard quickly, and it's very easy to get under your fingers!
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5:06 Soldering - Introduction and Tools Needed Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Advanced Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Hey guys! This month we're going to talk about basic soldering for electric guitar players. This will be a really simple crash course to get you into how to do easy things like repairing jacks, cables, changing pickups, etc. Go slow and practic...
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5:58 Soldering - Tinning and Splicing Wires Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this section, we'll cover how to "tin" the wire in order to prepare it for splicing or attaching to a pot, jack, terminal, etc. We will also look at how to "splice" wires, which is simply connecting to open wire ends to each other. This can be ve...
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Soldering - Prepping and Soldering to Pots Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Advanced Topic: Theory Style: Any Style In the final section, we'll cover how to prepping pots for soldering, how to use solder wick to remove excess solder and how to cleanly connect wires to different points on a pot.
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8:52 Finger Separation Exercise Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hey everyone! In this lesson we're going to tackle a simple, but effective exercise to build strength in your fingers and help you coordinate separating them when necessary. Remember to start slow and not to worry too much about picking, this is...
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4:17 Dialing in Tone Using Reamping: Part 1 Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Hi all, This month I'm going over how I use reamping to dial in a guitar tone I like in a very measured and controllable way. Tips: 1. Remember to use the guitar you are going to use for the application, or something very similiar. 2. Use a micro...
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3:09 Dialing in Tone Using Reamping: Part 2 Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style In part 2, you can watch as I play ideas that allow me to focus on specific tonal benchmarks that concern me. Notice how I continue to play some kind of rhythmic chug throughout the track so that I can monitor the bass response as I tweak. After you ...
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5:06 Dialing in Tone Using Reamping: Part 3 Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style And now that we are prepared, lets reamp and start twisting knobs! Some general rules to follow: Set the amp at the volume you intend to play at. Being whisper quiet or AC/DC loud isn't realistic. I shoot for where I see the speakers start to mov...
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10:24 Free Interview with Kyle Odell of Failure Anthem Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Interviews Style: Any Style Hi guys! I wanted to do an interview with one of my good friends, Kyle Odell, from the band Failure Anthem. Kyle and I have known each other for several years now. I do all of his tech work and he produced the second InterTwyneD record, "Soundscapes"...
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1:41 Basic Mixing Tips: Demo Track Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style And here's the demo track!
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5:20 Legato Exercises for Beginners: Intro & Figure 1 Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hey everyone! This month we're going to discuss some very basic exercises to strengthen your legato technique. These will help build muscle memory that you can apply to scales and muscial playing as well as increase your stamina and the length of ti...
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1:20 Legato Exercises for Beginners: Figure 2 Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Following the previous exercise, this is essentially the same thing but using the whole step, half step combination with fingers 1, 3 and 4. Remember to start slow and only increase the speed once you can do the exercise smoothly at the slower tempo...
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2:26 Legato Exercises for Beginners: Figure 3 Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Now we're going to practice the last "shape" in the form of fingers 1, 2 and 4, but with whole step, whole step intervals. As with the previous drills, start slow and build up the tempo only when you feel the lick feels and sounds smooth. Once you ...
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4:04 Legato Exercises for Beginners: Figures 4-7 Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Now that you feel comfortable with the "shapes" from the first three examples, we're going to apply them across all six strings using a pattern of two steps forward, one step back. These will build up stamina in your fretting hand so that you can con...
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1:32 Legato Exercises for Beginners: Figures 8-10 Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style For the last section, we're going to add to the pattern idea used in the last figure. Now instead of doing two steps forward, one step back, we are going to do three steps forward, one step back. This will continue to build your stamina and this patt...
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8:42 Guitar Care 101: Intro to Maintaining Your Instrument Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Hey all! I'd like to show you some basic techniques for taking care of your guitar. As players, we can be rough on our instruments and even the most gentle hands still leave residue on the fingerboard. In this video, I'll show you step by step how t...
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4:28 Open Voiced Triads: Major Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hello again! In this tutorial, we are going to talk about open voiced triads. What are open voiced triads? Well, to understand open voiced triads is might be best to first learn what close voiced triads are. A close voiced triad is what ...
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1:33 Open Voiced Triads: Minor Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style On to the minor triad. We'll be using the same key center of D but will be playing of the 2 chord, E minor. Root inversion with the root in the bass. 1 - 5 - b3 1st inversion with the 3rd in the bass. b3 - 1 - 5 2nd inversion with...
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2:55 Open Voiced Triads: Diminished Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Next, the diminished triad. Again, we'll be in the key of D but this time we're using the 7 chord, C# diminished. Root inversion with the root in the bass. 1 - b5 - b3 1st inversion with the 3rd in the bass. b3 - 1 - b5 2nd invers...
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9:53 Gain Staging with Pedals: Intro & Compressors (CS-3) Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Hi guys! After having conversations with several of my guitarist friends, I thought it might be prudent to talk a little about gain staging with pedals. I made three videos to demonstrate the differences in Compression, Overdrive and Distortion. They...
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9:11 Gain Staging with Pedals: Tubescreamers (TS808) Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style In part two of this lesson, we're going to talk about overdrive. Specifically, we're looking at the Ibanez Tubescreamer. Arguably the most popular overdrive ever produced, the Tubescreamer is far from being a one trick pony. I'll go through the basic...
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16:30 Gain Staging with Pedals: Distortion (DS-1) Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style In the last section, we'll look at the tiny orange wonder that is the Boss DS-1. This pedal has been around since the late 70's and has remained mostly unchanged. Its a very simple tool that has several applications. I'll go over the basis of how a d...
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1:30 Playing Vintage Guitars Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style I am completely new to the world of vintage guitars. But I decided to take a plunge recently and got a refinished 1960 Fender Strat, and I absolutely love it! I wrote a new song with it for this tutorial. You can watch and learn the song on the...
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4:06 Hybrid Picking Etude - Performance & Intro Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hi all! Hybrid picking has been a very useful technique for me in my many musical endeavors. To help you familiarize yourselves with hybrid picking, I put together a short track that uses the aformentioned style of picking in several ways. Once you f...
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1:33 Hybrid Picking Etude - Rhythm with the Pick Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this video let's look a little closer at the second rhythm section. We're now going to make the notes a bit more staccato, while we start driving the rhythm with eighth notes with our pick.
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1:29 Hybrid Picking Etude - Adding Leads Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now let's let loose. Time for the leads! Practice the lead parts separate from the rhythm parts and then try merging them together at a reasonable pace. When you think you're ready, head on over to the next page for the backing track!
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1:57 Hybrid Picking Etude - Backing Track Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style And here we have the backing track. I hope you enjoy!
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1:40 Artificial Harmonics: Performance & Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hi all! Back once again with another Infinite Guitar tutorial. This time I thought it might be fun to discuss artificial harmonics. I was first interested in this technique when I saw Tommy Emanuel play. Tommy is a fantastic player who you...
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3:23 Artificial Harmonics: Basic Technique Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style So in this video we will talk about the basic technique surrounding artificial harmonics. The easiest way to explain this is to say, whatever note is fretted with the left hand will need to be plucked exactly an octave up on the same string. So, if...
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3:01 Artificial Harmonics: Full Technique Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now that we've figured out the basics of artificial harmonics, we can now move onto the full technique as heard from players like Tommy Emanuel. This technique will utilize not only artificial harmonics put regular picked nots as well. The ke...
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5:10 Artificial Harmonics: Chord Shapes Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style The chords that are used in this example are the following: Bmin7add4 Bbmaj7#4 Cmaj69 C7b5 The voicings used within this example are not typical outside of this technique although they do have theoretical relevance. The main thing to note...
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0:39 Artificial Harmonics: Backing Track Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Please use this backing track when practicing the examples. Enjoy!
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3:26 "Money-Maker" Fills: Playthrough & Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Hello again Infinite Guitar! What are "money makers"? They are guitaristic fills that are musically pleasing to the listener and are heard mostly in very popular styles of music. In other words, they are fills that will get you well-paying gigs! Wel...
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5:31 "Money-Maker" Fills: 4ths Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style On to our first approach of using 4th intervals. Although I'm calling these "4ths" they are more like inverted 5ths because in most cases we'll be playing the root and 5th of the current chord. Pay close attention to how these intervals work over the...
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3:49 "Money-Maker" Fills: Hendrix Double Stops Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style These Hendrix style double stops will always start will a 4th and grace-note into a minor third. The notes included in the fills will not always be chord tones but the chord tones will be emphasized. Each fill will start in the second half of th...
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2:23 "Money-Maker" Fills: Final Fills & Outro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Here we have the last couple variations, and we're done! Be sure to recognize that the main duty of these money makers is to very tastefully outline the chords. Each of these will be very "inside" and are here to please the average person in the aud...
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1:26 "Money-Maker" Fills: Backing Track Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Utilize the backing track to practice the previous examples. Enjoy!
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2:02 7th Chord Embellishments in R&B - Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style It's about time we have an R&B guitar lesson! And in this tutorial we're going to focus on R&B embellishments on two common 7th chord shapes. Over the last couple of years, this style of guitar playing has become popularized by players l...
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3:18 7th Chord Embellishments in R&B - Major 7th Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style First, we will talk about major 7th chords. Specifically a drop 2 E major 7th chord with the root on the 5th string. We'll start with the basic voicing of root, 5th, 7th, 3rd, 5th. We'll then remove the pinky, giving us root, 5th, 7th, 9th, 5th. By ...
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3:02 7th Chord Embellishments in R&B - Minor 7th Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Now we will talk about minor 7th chords. Specifically a drop 2 E minor 7th chord with the root on the 5th string. We'll start with the basic voicing of root, 5th, b7th, b3rd, 5th. In this case, the common extensions are the b7th (1st string), ...
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0:54 7th Chord Embellishments in R&B - Playthrough Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style I hope you enjoy this song I've created for practice/application purposes. Listen closely for the correct phrasing. Then when you're ready to apply it, head on over to the next page for the backing track!
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0:54 7th Chord Embellishments in R&B - Backing Track Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Enjoy the backing track!
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0:32 Drop Tuned Triads: Etude Playthrough Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style For practice purposes, I've included an etude to go along with this tutorial. This etude will help with memorizing the new voicings and it also displays how one might use the material when composing. Enjoy!
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0:30 Drop Tuned Triads: Etude Backing Track Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Beginner Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Use this backing track to play along with the previous etude! Enjoy!
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4:29 Quartal Triad Comping - Intro & Quartal Theory Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style In this tutorial, we'll learn how to construct triads using the 4th scale degree. The key here is E Major Lydian. E - F# - G# - A# - B - C# - D# - E. All we have to do from here is build our chords in the intervals of a Root - 4th - 5th. Pay...
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4:35 Quartal Triad Comping - Triad Inversions Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style The key here is E Major Lydian. E - F# - G# - A# - B - C# - D# - E. Inversions come into play when you want to replace the root with another note within the chord. So say we have the triad E Major4. Root position would be E - A# - B. 1st inversion ...
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0:58 Quartal Triad Comping - Root Position Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style The key here is E Major Lydian. E - F# - G# - A# - B - C# - D# - E. Here we have our root position triads in diatonic order starting from E-A#-B. Simply build a 4th triad off of each scale degree. Read the tabs and pay close attention to the video ...
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0:55 Quartal Triad Comping - 1st Inversion Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style The key here is E Major Lydian. E - F# - G# - A# - B - C# - D# - E. Here we have our 1st inversion triads in diatonic order starting from A#-B-E. Simply build a 4th triad off of each scale degree. Read the tabs and pay close attention to the video ...
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0:34 Quartal Triad Comping - 2nd Inversion Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style The key here is E Major Lydian. E - F# - G# - A# - B - C# - D# - E. Here we have our 2nd inversion triads in diatonic order starting from B-E-A#. Simply build a 4th triad off of each scale degree. Read the tabs and pay close attention to the video ...
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2:34 Quartal Triad Comping - Comping Playthrough & Wrap-Up Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style When all is said and done...use your ear. Visualizing the fretboard is an eye and ear endeavour. So when it comes to comping in a real life setting, it should be understood that playing off of the soloist and other musicians is the key to standing ou...
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1:20 Quartal Triad Comping - Backing w/Solo Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Here is the backing with a solo example. Next page has the backing by itself.
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1:20 Quartal Triad Comping - Backing Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Enjoy the backing track and practice hard!
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0:48 Little Star Exercise - Intro Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style This month I present to you an exercise you might find to be quite unorthodox. I've been getting a lot of questions about how to clean up playing and finger tone. The answer is quite simple but choosing a method can be quite a confusing process. Wha...
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6:27 Little Star Exercise - Explanation Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Let's face it. We all want to sound better and there's only so much high end gear can do. The beginning of it all starts at the fingers. I find that finger control is the source of why a lot of hard working guitar players out there may come off as so...
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7:45 Little Star Exercise - Play Along Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Like I said before, we're going to cycle only the first 7 notes of 'Twinkle twinkle little star' and here are the rules: 1. You get to choose two fingers to play this melody 2. No sliding, slurs, or string talk (noise) 3. Each note has to be held ...
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2:28 Little Star Exercise - Drum Loop Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Have fun with the backing track! Closing statements are in the next video.
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1:50 Little Star Exercise - Wrap Up Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hope this was fun guys. I know play 'Twinkle twinkle little start' can be quite insulting to a lot of you great players out there. But I trust by now that you see this is not the point of the exercise. Thanks for tuning in this month as always. Chee...
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2:01 Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Intro Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Hello Folks, This month I want to go a different route. Let's take a minute and think about our musical journey and the most important aspects of becoming our very best potential. What got you started on this journey? What has this journey taught yo...
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6:06 Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Technique Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Is technique all that important? When first discovering technique, did you ever stop to think about what you're capable of outside the metronome culture? Technique is super important but even more so a distraction. In this video I'll show you why th...
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6:06 Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Rhythm Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Most of us know that without a good sense of rhythm, music can be played but not expressed. Rhythm is in and throughout everything that is. Think about how you speak to your lawyer as opposed to children. Think about how you speak to your spouse as o...
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5:10 Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Modes Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Modes are a lot like rhythm in a sense that they should be explored and expressed. Learning modes won't make you more melodic just because you learned them on the fretboard. Modes posses a texture that needs to be constantly explored. In this video I...
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7:54 Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Songwriting Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style I truly enjoyed my musical freedom growing up. My family was always writing and creating music. I have no intention of cramping your musical style. However, those of you experiencing difficulty getting your ideas down should think more freely. Try to...
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1:36 Listening Up! Guitar Philosophy - Wrap Up Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Thanks for listening! Once again I want you to reflect on the freedom of this tutorial. No exercises. No study material. Just self reflection. This should become a part of your everyday. The understanding should permeate your practice sessions, jam ...
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3:29 Odd Time: Intro & 5 Note Groupings Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hello again! In this tutorial we will be talking about "odd time". Whether it's odd note groupings in 4/4 or an odd time signature, it is a very useful skill to learn. We will mainly be focusing on the numbers 5 and 7. Starting with 5 and 7...
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1:35 Odd Time: 7 Note Groupings Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Now moving onto 7 note groupings. This is the same type of idea that we just accomplished with 5 notes but now with (you guessed it) 7 notes. Again we will be using the one octave C major scale in the same position but this time we'll be playing sc...
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2:17 Odd Time: Subdividing 5/8 Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Moving onto odd time signatures and how to sub divide them. A subdivision is when you take a larger number like 5 or 7 and break it down into groups of smaller numbers that equal up to the original number when added together. In the case of 5, two ...
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4:33 Odd Time: Subdividing 7/8 Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style In the same way we subdivided 5/8 we will now subdivide 7/8. Since we have a larger number we have the option of using more groupings. NOTE: I forgot to mention in the previous video that when subdividing it is best to use groups of 2 and 3. (you c...
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3:59 Soloing with Rhythmic Variation: Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hi there guys! In this tutorial I'm going to talk about something that I teach all the time to my college students. This is the idea of learning rhythmic variations. This is something that we might do already but are we doing it correctly? I know ...
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4:06 Soloing with Rhythmic Variation: Example Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Ok, so now we will explore easiest way to practice this concept. We'll set our metronome at 80bpm and we will use a G major 3 note per string scale with the root starting on the 3rd fret (G) of the low E string. We will then play the scale continuo...
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3:36 Soloing with Rhythmic Variation: Demonstration Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Now here is a demonstration of how I might apply this in my own playing. Please note that this is still in the mind set of "practicing" so I'm not actually playing the way I would in a professional setting. I highly recommend that you expand furthe...
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4:36 Odd Meters - 5/4 Part 1 (Take 5 example). Instructor: Nick Granville Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style In this lesson I show how to approach playing in 5/4. Odd meters are not as scary as most people think if you have some kind of concept. This idea of this lesson is to give you that concept. I use the classic tune take 5 as an example and also my arr...
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4:55 Odd Meters - 5/4 Part 2 (Dindi Example). Instructor: Nick Granville Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style In this lesson I show how to play my arrangement of Dindi in 5/4. The idea of this arrangement is to take a classic latin tune and make it into a 5/4 groove without using the Take 5 rhythm. This is acheived by reversing the pattern of take 5 e.g &nbs...
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1:11 Half Step Bends - Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hello all! This time around we will be talking about the use of the half step bend. This is a very easy and tasteful tool that is commonly looked over by players but I highly recommend taking some time to learn how to utilize the half step bend. Li...
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3:04 Half Step Bends - Explanation Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now one of the easiest and fastest ways to learn to use these bends is by using the two string symmetrical scale. The two string symmetrical scale is commonly taught and is extremely useful when visualizing the fret board. It can help with seeing o...
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2:52 Half Step Bends - Explanation (continued) Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now let's discuss they actual convenience of the two string symmetrical shape when we are learning where are half steps exist within a key. You may have to refer back to the tab so I've included it again at the bottom. As you can see the half...
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2:29 Half Step Bends - Examples Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style So I thought it best to go ahead and leave you guys with a few lick examples sort of in the style of Guthrie Govan, Steve Vai, or Shawn Lane. The first example is sort of an east Indian/middle eastern vibe to it. The key with this lick is to be quic...
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3:30 Work On Your Bends! - Intro and Explanation Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how I approach tightening up my intonation while bending. It's simple! You start from a note and end with another note. However, the concept is a lot easier than the application. So, I've put together 6 licks ...
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0:19 Work On Your Bends! - Lick No.1 Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Remember, the key with these exercises is to take as long as you need to match the pitch you bend up to. The point is to spend time perfecting your sense of pitch from one semi-tone or tone to the next. The pitch is the most important part her...
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0:19 Work On Your Bends! - Lick No.2 Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Remember, the key with these exercises is to take as long as you need to match the pitch you bend up to. The point is to spend time perfecting your sense of pitch from one semi-tone or tone to the next. The pitch is the most important part her...
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0:20 Work On Your Bends! - Lick No.3 Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Remember, the key with these exercises is to take as long as you need to match the pitch you bend up to. The point is to spend time perfecting your sense of pitch from one semi-tone or tone to the next. The pitch is the most important part her...
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0:22 Work On Your Bends! - Lick No.4 Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Remember, the key with these exercises is to take as long as you need to match the pitch you bend up to. The point is to spend time perfecting your sense of pitch from one semi-tone or tone to the next. The pitch is the most important part her...
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0:17 Work On Your Bends! - Lick No.5 Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Remember, the key with these exercises is to take as long as you need to match the pitch you bend up to. The point is to spend time perfecting your sense of pitch from one semi-tone or tone to the next. The pitch is the most important part her...
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0:21 Work On Your Bends! - Lick No.6 Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Remember, the key with these exercises is to take as long as you need to match the pitch you bend up to. The point is to spend time perfecting your sense of pitch from one semi-tone or tone to the next. The pitch is the most important part her...
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1:12 Work On Your Bends! - Wrap Up Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hopefully you got the following out of this tutorial... 1. A wake up call. A state of awareness toward your sense of pitch. The quicker the better so continue to work hard on this! 2. Homework. These licks are not easy. Bending is a form of articul...
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2:12 Work On Your Bends! - Backing Track Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here's the backing track folks! All six licks are tabbed out below. Remember, the key with these exercises is to take as long as you need to match the pitch you bend up to. The point is to spend time perfecting your sense of pitch from one semi-tone...
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3:36 Guitar Setup and Cleaning: Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Hello! This time around we will discuss a very important peice of guitar knowledge: Setting up and cleaning our guitar. Some of you may already know how to do this but I stongly advise all of you to check out this entire tutorial! There are l...
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5:08 Guitar Setup and Cleaning: String & Rust Removal Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style So I'm sure we all know how to remove a set of strings but an easy tip is to quickly snip them off with a wire cutters. There's no need to save the rusty, smelly old strings so we might as well make life easier and take them off the fast and easy way...
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4:30 Guitar Setup and Cleaning: Cleaning the Fretboard Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Now we bust out the fretboard oil! This is a very easy and cheap thing you can do every time or every other time you restring your guitar. There is no reason you need to pay someone to do this for you. For this I'll use my lemon oil and rag. Apply ...
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5:43 Guitar Setup and Cleaning: Restringing Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Now I know most of us if not all of us know how to resting our guitars. Well, this is the most effective way I have found when restringing this specific kind of guitar. (fixed bridge and standard non-locking tuners) There are two main things I think...
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3:08 Guitar Setup and Cleaning: Post Restring Tips Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style The following are a couple helpful tips I've learned over the years to make life a little easier as a gigging guitarist. #1. getting rid of the extra string length when you don't have a wire cutters sitting around. #2. Preventing the pointy string ...
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4:22 Guitar Setup and Cleaning: Intonating - Part 1 Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style The tricky art of intonating a guitar. First you should know the list of things that can affect the intonation. #1. Are you using a different gauge of strings than usual? #2. Are you using a different tuning than usual? #3. Have you recently chan...
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3:54 Guitar Setup and Cleaning: Intonating - Part 2 Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style
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1:35 Major Scales Simplified Instructor: Nick Granville Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style In this lesson, I cover a simple way to play the major scale across the whole guitar neck; using 5 main shapes as the basis. There are alternative shapes (which I will explain at a later date), but these shapes provided are the simplest to use and le...
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1:41 Arpeggios - Major, Dominant, and Minor 7th's Instructor: Nick Granville Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Now we're going to cover the core arpeggios for Major 7th, Minor 7th and Dominant 7th and also 2 octave shapes. Arpeggios spell chord changes, so if you know these you can pretty much play the changes to any tune at a basic level.
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2:35 4th Voicings - Introduction Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hello again IG! Here's something I've been wanting to share with you guys for a while but for some reason or another I just decided to discuss other topics. The 4th voicing! Oh how simple it is! But wait! It can be a hard concept to use within you...
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1:27 4th Voicings - String Set 3-2-1 Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Chords Style: Any Style One thing I'd like to point out right way is that in the examples I've excluded the voicings based on string set 3-4-5 and set 4-5-6. I've done this for two reasons: #1. I think one of the most important things for any student to do is to be able to...
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1:50 4th Voicings - String Set 4-3-2 Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Chords Style: Any Style On to the next set of strings! For my personal taste, this is almost to the point of being muddy but it's still very useable. You'll notice that we once again have 5 repeated shapes and 2 "odd men out". These shapes aren't exactly the same as the o...
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1:30 Tackling Lydian Mode - Introduction Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hello everyone! In this tutorial, I'm going to teach you how to master your modes one by one. We will start with the Lydian mode. When you're ready, head on over to the next video where we'll be discussing root connection. Let's begin!
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1:48 Tackling Lydian Mode - Explained Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style The Root Connection Study is something I use to both train my ear and visualize the fretboard. Take your time and allow this exercise to show you how these scales connect. It's a pretty involved process but quite worth it when you start to see how th...
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0:54 Tackling Lydian Mode - Demonstration Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Remember to take your time. Allow the tablauture to show you how these three shapes create a road map you cannot get lost in. This process is unconventional I know. And that's why it works! It forces you to learn the nature of your scales on your in...
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2:50 Playing Slash Chords: Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hello once again! I recently had a discussion with a colleague about the importance of being a solid rhythm guitarist. Chord vocabulary, among other things, is big part of developing as a rhythm guitarist so I thought this would be a great opport...
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3:53 Playing Slash Chords: Basic Shapes Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style So the first step is to take our basic open chords (C, A, G, E, D) and move the 3rd to the bass. The expectation is that once you've seen how to move the 3rd to the bass you can then move the 5th to the bass on your own. Once we've moved the 3rd we...
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2:26 Playing Slash Chords: Other Shapes Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style So I thought I'd go ahead and give you guys another shape I use quite often when composing fusion tunes. You could say that these chords are Major 9no7 chords with the 9th in the bass. So basically a major triad with the 9th (2nd) in the bass. For ...
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3:13 Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Intro Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Welcome! In this tutorial, we're going to cover: 1. Gain Staging - Making sure your recordings are going in at the proper levels 2. Balancing your mix - NO EQ. Just faders. This process should usually take about a week or so per song 3. Using EQs ...
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7:00 Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Making Headroom Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Essential Steps To A Better Mix My philosophy on balancing my mix is all about feeling. I want to feel a given instrument leap out of my speakers a certain way or level. You can do that with a single fader. Actually, you should only accomplish this...
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3:51 Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Gain Staging Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Essential Steps To A Better Mix Improper gain staging can destroy your work flow and balance, leaving you with a skewed vision of your sound field. Gain staging is accomplished on two spectrums: 1. Making sure your instrument is recorded at an apr...
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7:56 Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Using EQ Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Essential Steps To A Better Mix EQs are not problem solvers! They are simply mixing boards of a wide spectrum of frequencies. For instance, You have the kick drum, bass guitar, and lead guitar or vocal in center position. All of which share some o...
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6:25 Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Using Compression Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Essential Steps To A Better Mix Compression is not a problem solver or signal booster. A compressor is used to "compress" peaks in your signal automatically. You can also control how fast this plugin turns your singal down and how fast it turns its...
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2:59 Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Play Through Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Essential Steps To A Better Mix In the Play back stage you should find yourself making slight adjustments. Nothing drastic. I'm a perfectionist, I will start over frm scratch if this happens. Luckily I have a good amount of experince to not let it h...
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9:05 Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Wrap Up Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Essential Steps To A Better Mix Remember: 1. Record at apropriate levels. If these are set right then the next step should be a lot more of a pleasant process 2. Set your mixer levels low enough to account for greater flexibility later on during t...
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1:08 Triplet Fun! - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Hey everyone! This month, we're taking a look at triplets. Triplets (like any other tuplet) offer a very distinct rhythmic sound. The focus of this month's tutorial is taking our triplet runs to the next level; creating sub-divisions within a triplet...
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0:36 Triplet Fun! - Threes, Fours and Fives Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Threes For the first exercise, we're just descending in groups of three - down three, up one, down three, up one, etc. This is a fairly common descending approach to scalar passages. Fours Here, we get our first taste of "playing over the bar line...
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0:37 Triplet Fun! - Sixes, Sevens and Nines Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Sixes Groups of sixes in a triplet feel should feel and sound rather natural due to it being a mutiple of three. The lick itself is a tad tricky due to the quick "back and forth" motion, but keep in mind that we're descending from the highest note/d...
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0:33 Triplet Fun! - Backing Track Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Here's the backing track, folks. Have fun with this!
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5:27 Chord Changes for Beginners - Transitions Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hey beginners! I developed this lesson for the purpose of identifying some of the issues associated with difficulty making chord changes. We'll examine three different sets of chords, D & A, E & Am, Am & C. Here in part 1, we'll simply be...
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2:50 Chord Changes for Beginners - Strumming Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style So, let's try altering the strumming pattern so that this starts to sound a little more musical, as opposed to like exercises. The rhythm for the strum pattern is as follows: 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & D D D ...
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1:25 Pick-Stroke Uniformity - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hey everyone! This month we're taking a close look at our pick-stroke. Maintaining a uniformity with regards to pick-stroke dynamics (regardless of which direction our pick strokes each string) will open many windows of opportunity to mix scalar and ...
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0:18 Pick-Stroke Uniformity - Lick 2 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Lick 2 consists of two bars of contrasting technique - the first, we're ascending through a fairly common three-note-per string passage with alternate, before descending through an E minor arpeggio sequence in bar two. Again, the focus of these exerc...
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0:18 Pick-Stroke Uniformity - Lick 3 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Lick 3 is a little more "mixed up" as far as pick directions are concerned. Much like lick 1, we begin with alternate picking but are soon met with an ascending Dmaj7 arpeggio from the A to G strings. The most effective method of practicing this lick...
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0:18 Pick-Stroke Uniformity - Lick 4 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Finally, lick 4 kinda mixes things up. This exercise begins with an up-stroke to allow for our economy to "reset" before hitting the alternate picked measure in bar 2 with a down stroke. Practice bar 1, first, to a metronome, before moving forward. W...
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3:11 Intro to Syncopation: Explanation Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Welcome again to another tutorial! This time around we'll be discussing one of the most important elements of music, rhythm. More specifically, syncopation. As a beginning to intermediate guitarist, one of the most difficult things to grasp onto is...
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0:33 Intro to Syncopation: Chordal Example Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style In this first exercise we'll be using an E7 shell voicing but really any chord will do. I've set my metronome to 80bpm and like I stated in the last video, I start on the down beat and move the 16th note over 1 beat every measure. This gives me accen...
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2:23 Intro to Syncopation: Using in Solos Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style The technique used in the previous videos can also be applied to soloing ideas. In this section, we'll take a simple 8 note scale shape (E mixolydian) and we'll play its using a descending 4 note sequence that is common in many styles. The same thin...
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1:10 Intro to Syncopation: Using in Solos - Example Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Like I said in the previous video, this might be a little more difficult so please play at a slower tempo if needed. A good starting point would be 60bpm if 80 is uncomfortable. Also pay close attention to the tab. The descending sequence is the sa...
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2:35 7th Chord Inversions: Drop 2 Voicings - Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hello again! In this tutorial you will be learning the four drop 2 voicings for strings 5-4-3-2 (a-d-g-b). For those of you unfamiliar with the term "drop 2", it describes the theoretical action that takes place in creating these voicings. Imagine...
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2:34 7th Chord Inversions: Drop 2 Voicings - Major7 Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Here we go. Major 7 Inversions: Root Inversion C-G-B-E or 1-5-7-3 1st Inversion E-B-C-G or 3-7-1-5 2nd Inversion G-C-E-B or 5-1-3-7 3rd Inversion B-E-G-C or 7-3-5-1
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1:48 7th Chord Inversions: Drop 2 Voicings - Dominant7 Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Dominant 7 Voicings: Root Inversion C-G-Bb-E or 1-5-b7-3 1st Inversion E-Bb-C-G or 3-b7-1-5 2nd Inversion G-C-E-Bb or 5-1-3-7b 3rd Inversion Bb-E-G-C or 7b-3-5-1
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2:07 7th Chord Inversions: Drop 2 Voicings - Minor7 Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Minor 7 Voicings: Root Inversion C-G-Bb-Eb or 1-5-b7-b3 1st Inversion Eb-Bb-C-G or b3-b7-1-5 2nd Inversion G-C-Eb-Bb or 5-1-b3-b7 3rd Inversion Bb-Eb-G-C or b7-b3-5-1
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1:05 Creating Instrumental Music: Intro Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Creating any kind of music is a wonderful experience. That feeling of expressing yourself through music is just too addictive to comprehend. Although this is true, so many of us get caught up in the "dos and don'ts" of even the simplest aspects of th...
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2:10 Creating Instrumental Music: 3 Steps To A Full Work Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style I can't tell you how many of my students have told me they've either started an idea and can't finish it, or they want to start but just can't get an idea going. The thing is there are always ideas floating around. In my case I always have ideas goin...
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4:04 Creating Instrumental Music: Road Map Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Notice: 1. I finished the whole song or "outline" first. Having a guitar handy definitely didn't hurt any. 2. Take note the fact that I wrote a chord melody so by default I have both the chords and melody telling me what to do next. 3. Listen to y...
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4:10 Creating Instrumental Music: Instrumentation/Arrangement Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style 1. We have our "instrumentation", the choice of color for the piece of music 2. Notice how the bass guitar, the drums, and guitar are not in each other's way. 3.Notice how the drummer keeps the high-hat closed for quite parts and open to introduce ...
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6:28 Creating Instrumental Music: Wrap Up with Lead Guitar Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style I hope this helped you guys. Remember to push though this stage and do not stop until you are FINISHED with your composition. Also, keep in mind not to go too overboard where you never finish a song either. The idea is to get you writing and writing ...
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3:10 Strumming 101 - Intro & Patterns Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Hey everyone! For this tutorial, I want to focus on the fine art of strumming. Throughout my years of teaching, one thing I've found is that many players who avoid taking the time to establish how the right hand executes rhythms, wind up having issue...
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2:02 Strumming 101 - Chord Changes Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style So let's have some fun by practicing our new rhythms with chord changes. I chose just two open-position chords to practice with, D and A. There's an added column with either D or A for each strum pattern. This is the chord we'll switch to befo...
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2:38 Free The Chaos Lick - Intro and Performance Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hey everyone! For this tutorial, I want to test your picking abilities with this etude I wrote entitled "The Chaos Lick". It features both economy AND alternate picking styles, both entwined rather randomly. The focus of this exercise is to achieve a...
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0:47 Free The Chaos Lick - Part 1: Economy Picking Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Bars 1 through 5 feature some of the trickiest picking patterns for those of us inexperienced with the art of economy picking. We float through segments of arpeggios as well as some scale-oriented passages. Remember: The rhythm never changes and EVE...
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0:44 Free The Chaos Lick - Part 2: Alternate Picking Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style And now for something a little more familiar to guys like myself - alternate picking! Starting in bar 6, the technique switches to alternate with a series of Paul Gilbert-esque arpeggios. In bar 8, we descend through some 4-note-per-string chromatic...
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2:58 Technical Basics Series Pt.2 - Sweep Picking: Intro Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Alright guys here's a list of things to keep in mind as we move forward... 1. Major - Minor - Diminished Triads 2. Diatonic Sequence - M-m-m-M-M-m-dim-(M) 3. Subdivisions - 8th-Triplet 8ths-16th-Triplet 16ths 4. Remember to keep both hands relaxe...
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3:21 Technical Basics Series Pt.2 - Sweep Picking: Warm Up Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Using Subdivisions to warm up is key. Using a metronome in increments usually pushes you unnecessarily to play faster. This can be bad if there are any unnoticable glitches in your technique. VERY BAD. Because playing any instrument is about muscle m...
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2:47 Technical Basics Series Pt.2 - Sweep Picking: Sequences Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Okay, here's the big sequence where we go to work. While you practice, remember to: 1. Relax both hands 2. Count 3. Accent the downbeats To practice this with the drum loop, head on over to the last page of the tutorial!
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1:51 Technical Basics Series Pt.2 - Sweep Picking: Wrap Up Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hope that helped. Always play along to the video when you get the chance to. If you feel like this is to slow for you, simply increase your metronome and apply the same subdivisions! IMPORTANT NOTE: My debut album "Out In The Open" has ...
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6:13 Technical Basics Series Pt.2 - Sweep Picking: Drum Loop Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Have fun with the drum loop guys. Keep that sweep picking technique clean!
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1:09 Perfect Your Sweeping - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Welcome back fellow IG'ers! For this tutorial, I wanted to have some fun with sweep arpeggios. I've been getting a lot of questions lately pertaining to how to go about executing them cleanly. In this lesson, we'll be examining two etudes, one conta...
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0:39 Perfect Your Sweeping - Etude 1 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Technique Style: Any Style So our first etude features four six-string arpeggios. The focus for now should be knowing where you are within every arpeggio. This is THE most imparative part of executing these types of arpeggios cleanly. What I mean by this is, don't get lost on...
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1:05 Perfect Your Sweeping - Etude 2 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style And last, but not least - etude numero deux. This arpeggio sequence is heavily "suspended" sounding. The intervals are wide and the shapes get tangly. Technique-wise, we should have a decent understanding of what has to happen, so without further ado...
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2:08 Mastering Bar Chords - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hey guitar enthusiasts! In this tutorial, we're tackling bar chords. We'll examine the best approach to forming a clean-sounding bar chord, and the steps for constructing a ton of cool chords (covering all major, minor, 7, minor 7 and major 7 chords)...
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2:05 Mastering Bar Chords - Locating the Root Notes Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style So when we look at any chord, for instance: Abm - the first thing we want to do is find an Ab note. The same would apply for a any chord: Bm (B), C# (C#), Ebm (Eb), D#m (D#), Cmaj7 (C), Ebm7 (Eb) etc. Always identify what the root of the chord is, fi...
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3:06 Mastering Bar Chords - Forming the Chord Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style So now that we're familiar with locating any 5 chord, let's get to the barring. Let's use Am for this example. Using the previous steps, our approach will be to locate an A note (fifth fret on low E string) and add our ring and pinky fingers to form...
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1:06 Arp Symmetry - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hey guys! This tutorial is focused on highlighting and "correcting" an issue with many of the common five and six string arpeggio sequences we see. We'll be applying a "no pick stroke missed" approach where we would normally visit our trusty pull-off...
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2:13 Arp Symmetry - Part 1 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style The first arpeggio highlights one of the most common five-string patterns. To apply our distinct economy-style pick approach to this, however, we'll have to make some modifications - beginning with the second note. To eliminate the usual hammer-on we...
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2:45 Arp Symmetry - Part 2 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style The next bar contains two repetitions of a six-string E minor arpeggio. The thing to focus on before getting too deep into this one, however, is how we transition into it. From the A minor, the final note was on the 15th fret of the A string - from t...
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1:11 Arp Symmetry - Part 3 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style In measure 4, we see another five-string arpeggio. This time, a dominant 7 instead of a natural minor. The picking is identical to that of the A minor arpeggio, but the fingering is a little tanglier.
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0:56 Arp Symmetry - Part 4 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Last, but not least, we're back to another six-string arpeggio, and instead of minor, we're major. Much like the transition between the two five-string arps, this is the same. The picking pattern is identical to that of the E minor and D minor arpegg...
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2:23 Visualizing Modes Pt. II - Intro Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Breakdown I'm going to use a segment from one of my original tunes called "Desperate Times". Here are the chords / modes / intervals: Dm9 / Dorian / 1-9-b3-11-5-13-b7 D7b9 / Mixolydian b9(b13) / 1-b9-3-11-5-b13-b7 Gm7 / Dorian / 1-9-b3...
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1:29 Visualizing Modes Pt. II - Root Connection Study Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style The key here is to be able to isolate the sound of the modes in your mind and then connect them throughout a harmonic progression on the fly. Hint: Try isolating each chord via reording software or "iRehearse" so you can teach your brain how these d...
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0:57 Visualizing Modes Pt. II - "Desperate Times" Solo Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Like I said before I could not provide tablature for this. However, learning this solo is not the point. Understanding how I'm stringing my lines together to display the color of the harmony is the thing to learn here. Enjoy!
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2:47 Visualizing Modes Pt. II - Backing Track Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Here are the chords / modes / intervals: Dm9 / Dorian / 1-9-b3-11-5-13-b7 D7b9 / Mixolydian b9(b13) / 1-b9-3-11-5-b13-b7 Gm7 / Dorian / 1-9-b3-11-5-13-b7 Ebmaj7 / Lydian / 1-2-3-#11-5-13-7 Gmaj7 / Lydian / 1-2-3-#11-5-13-7
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6:33 Legato - Introduction Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Welcome to this tutorial on legato! Stay relaxed for this one, folks. 1. Make sure fingers stay as close to the fretboard as possible 2. Steady wins the race - If you play or practice at "your" natural pace with complete accuracy, you will aq...
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1:34 Descending Sus4 Arpeggios: Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hi guys! In this tutorial we'll be discussing a descending sus4 arpeggio idea that I use a lot in my playing! Like a lot of ideas, I like to run through them diatonically and expand them into other tonalities so that we aren't just playing a major ...
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1:34 Descending Sus4 Arpeggios: Gmaj - Cmaj Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style To our first four arpeggios! G Major (Ionian) (5 - 4 - 3 - 1) A Minor (Dorian) (5 - 4 - b3 - 1) B Minor (Phrygian) (5 - 4 - b3 - 1) C Major (Lydian) (5 - #4 - 3 - 1) As you can see our two mi...
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1:15 Descending Sus4 Arpeggios: Dmaj - F#dim Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style The other three arpeggios! D Major (Mixolydian) (5 - 4 - 3 - 1) E Minor (Aeolian) (5 - 4 - b3 - 1) F# Diminished (Locrian) (b5 - 4 - b3 - 1) As you may have noticed our D Major is the same shape as our G maj...
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1:12 Descending Sus4 Arpeggios: Outro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style I've found that this approach to learning has really helped me to visualize the fretboard. The process of taking an idea and spreading throughout different qualities and around the fretboard. I'll leave you with a quick lick that just adds a little...
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3:07 Intervallic Approach - Breakdown Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hey everyone! Welcome back. This month I wanted to focus on something a little more "intervallic". What I mean by that is focusing more on accentuating each passing chord to really make the progression "pop". We'll examine six different arpeggio...
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1:03 Intervallic Approach - Etude Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style So let's make some music while experimenting with these arpeggio shapes. We'll be bouncing between several different octaves of each and incorporating all kinds of wacky techniques - so keep a firm eye on the tablature. Be sure to download the backin...
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1:03 Intervallic Approach - Backing Track Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Have fun with the backing track! First we have it at normal speed, then slow speed.
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3:37 Introduction To Guitar Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Hey everyone! Welcome to InfiniteGuitar.com. This tutorial will be the first of many in an in-depth introduction to the guitar. Whether your forte is blues, rock, metal or pop, we'll examine every element of the instrument from the ground up so that ...
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2:04 Introduction To Guitar - Get 'Em Moving! Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style So now that we understand the basics of how to locate a note, let's try arranging some notes in a more musical context... Below, (Exercise 1) we see a single line with two numbers, 0 and 1. What the line represents is our first string (the "skinny" ...
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2:55 Introduction To Guitar - Chords Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Chords A chord is defined as a combination of two or more notes played together in harmony. The best way to dive into the world of chords is to first learn the easiest mechanism for learning them - chord diagrams. Chord diagrams are fairly simplisti...
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2:26 Introduction To Guitar - Strumming Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Strumming Patterns What a strumming pattern is in essence, is the pattern in which your pick strikes multiple strings, consisting of downward and upward motions. The concept is actually quite simple, but without breaking down the actual motions from...
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4:27 Visualizing Modes - Introduction Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Visualizing Modes For The Guitar Overview Welcome to this month’s tutorial! I want to talk a bit about a method of fretboard visualization that I’ve developed to get me away from using “box patterns” and other fretboar...
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6:03 Visualizing Modes - The Intervallic Approach Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Visualizing Modes Intervallic Approach [PDF Below] -Arpeggio - 3 Positions So first we map out the three arpeggio positions in “root position” Position 1 – First Finger Position 2 – Second Finger Positio...
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6:02 Visualizing Modes - The Root Connection Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Root Connection Study So here’s the graph! Go through it carefully from the ‘lowest’ point of the neck (3rd position) and work your way up, then down the neck. Remember, this is no way to improvise. This is just to show you how ...
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5:23 Visualizing Modes - Visualizing Licks Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style In this video I discuss how to actually visualize the licks on the fretboard.
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4:48 Visualizing Modes - Learning The Other Modes Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Learning The Other Modes How The Intervallic Approach is applied to other scales USE YOUR EARS The thing about modes is that you can’t assume you know a mode just because you know how to build one. Quick example: You can’t becom...
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1:04 Reamping - What is Reamping? Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Reamping is the process of sending a DI signal back into an amp/modeler to reshape your tone to how you want. This is used in pretty much also studios today, so that artists can go back and get a different tone, and not worry about keeping the origin...
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4:25 Reamping - How to Reamp Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style The process of reamping is actually very easy. For this demonstration, I’m going to be using my Fractal Audio Axe-fx II. 1. The first step is to open your DAW, and make two audio tracks. Label one as “Amp tone” and the other ...
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1:45 Reamping - What you need to Reamp Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style For reamping with an Axe-fx II you need: Axe-fx II 1/4” guitar cable USB cable Guitar For reamping with amp/cab setup you need: DI or Reamp box 1/4” guitar cable XLR to 1/4” cable Microphone (SM57 for guitar) XLR cab...
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2:56 Adding Extensions to Diatonic 7th Chords: Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hi guys! So this month we'll once again stray from Licking Up the Modes. Although, what we're covering in this tutorial directly relates to the modes and is very helpful. If you're unfimiliar with the term "diatonic", this basically meens the notes ...
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3:22 Adding Extensions to Diatonic 7th Chords: Tonic Chord Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style There is are a couple basic rules to follow when thinking about which extensions can be used. (but rules are meant to be broken :) .....sometimes) #1 extension notes cannot be a half step above a chord tone. #2 extension notes should not create a t...
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2:45 Adding Extensions to Diatonic 7th Chords: ii Chord Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Now onto our "two" chord (ii). The chord tones discussed here will directly relate to the matching mode, dorian. In this case A dorian because the ii chord of Gmaj is Amin7. A - B - C - D - E - F# - G (A - B - C - &nb...
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2:42 Adding Extensions to Diatonic 7th Chords: iii & IV Chord Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style The iii chord has only one extension and the matching mode is phrygian, in this case B phrygian. As you can see a knowledge of the modes can come in handy for this tutorial. Hopefully the explanation in the previous video will help you to understan...
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3:32 Adding Extensions to Diatonic 7th Chords: V, vi & vii Chord Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Now onto our final three chords! Starting with the V chord. The V chord also has no avoid notes, although, some people might avoid the 11 because it creates a tritone between the 11 and 7 but plenty of people include the 11. The V chords matching ...
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1:41 Adding Extensions to Diatonic 7th Chords: Exercise Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style This exercise is just running through each shape in the order seen on the tab below. Have fun!
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2:35 Licking Up the Modes: Phrygian - Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Licking Up the Modes is back!!! This month we discuss Phrygian! Phrygian is slightly different than the rest of the modes in the fact that we have no available extensions (otherwise known as "void" tones). This means we are basically stuck with ou...
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1:34 Mystifying Your Rhythm - Part I Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Mystify Your Rhythm PART I: Hey fellow IGers! This month's lesson is kind of a throw back to an earlier tutorial of mine entitled "Creating Your Own Pulse". I wanted to approach something that tends to evade many people when approaching thr...
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2:31 Mystifying Your Rhythm - Part II Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style PART II: Ex. 2 - "9 Within 3" - 1: So let's put this new feel to use. This lick is intended to be played over a 4/4 groove. If you'll notice, however, it's written in 3/4 first, and 4/4 second. The purpose for this is so that we can understa...
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1:22 Mystifying Your Rhythm - Part III Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style PART III: So, in keeping with the "staying away from the index finger establishing the down beat" format, let's try "Ex. 4 - Back To The Basics"; a more stuccato, straight sixteenth approach. Here is a lick with a very defined beginning and ...
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1:10 Frank Gambale Sweep Idea: Intro Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style So I decided to take a break from "Licking Up the Modes" this time around. I apologize if you were looking forward to Phrygian, but I promise we'll pick up where we left off in the next tutorial. I thought it'd be fun to talk about this Frank ...
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1:15 Frank Gambale Sweep Idea: Arpeggio Shapes Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Again the arpeggios we'll be using are: Cmaj 7 - Dm7 - Em7 - Fmaj7 - G7 - Am7 - Bm7b5. Not only is this sweep idea cool and useful but these arpeggio shapes are extremely useful! They sit under the fingers very well. I play at least one of them eve...
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1:54 Frank Gambale Sweep Idea: Major 7 Arpeggios Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Alright, so here is the sweep "idea" applied to our two major 7 arpeggios diatonic to the key of C major; Cmaj7 and Fmaj7. Note that these shapes are exactly the same, just played at different parts of the fretboard. Basically, this lick is an eigh...
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1:33 Frank Gambale Sweep Idea: Minor 7 Arpeggios Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style This is the exact same thing, just applied to our three minor 7 arpeggios this time. Dm7 - Em7 - Am7. No barring this time, but we'll have to use all four fingers on our left hand. Again, all three shapes are exactly the same but just at different ...
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0:53 Frank Gambale Sweep Idea: dom7 and min7b5 Arps Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Alright instead of doing separate videos for the last two, I decided to put them together, since there is only one of each. So again, the same thing as before. There will be some barring in the G7 arpeggio but none in the Bm7b5.
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1:21 Frank Gambale Sweep Idea: Outro/Arpeggio Exercise Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Alright guys, I hope you find this useful! Here's an exercise that will really help you to start utilizing this sweep idea. All we're doing is playing through each arpeggio in order. Don't be afraid to mix it up by jumping around each shape ...
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1:27 Skippin' Strings - Scale Fragments Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style String skipping is an approach that involves a lot of different techniques. Most of these techniques, you'll quickly come to find, are ones that involve keeping the "skipped" strings quiet. The purpose of string skipping is often times to cover more ...
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1:35 Skippin' Strings - Arpeggios & Etude Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style String skipped arpeggios are a staple in neo-classical shred and have been since the 80's. This approach is very ala Paul Gilbert. It offers a way to access a wide array of cool arpeggios without the "sloppy" effect of sweeping. We'll begin by breaki...
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1:31 Skippin' Strings - Hybrid Technique Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style A "cheap way out" (as I like to call it) to string skipping, is incorporating hybrid picking. Hybrid picking drastically decreases the amount of right hand movement as the need to shift the pick across numerous strings is now depleted. We hover...
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1:35 Licking Up the Modes: Dorian - Introduction Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style DORIAN!!! Dorian is our second mode. If we were to stay in the key of C major we would have chosen to do D dorian, but I decided it would be more beneficial to use parallel modes. This means that we'll be using the same starting note while changing ...
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4:00 Lick Up the Modes: Dorian - Discussion Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style OK! So I've included a lot of usful info in this one. It just so happens that dorian really doesn't have any void notes. This makes it really easy to imrpovise in a dorian situation, if you know the scale in all positions you really can't go wrong. B...
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1:49 Drilling Drop D - Scales Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Scales When playing through those familiar old scales, keep a couple things in mind: Everything you would've played on the low E string shifts up two frets. Also, if you visualize the scale from a different perspective, any notes that fall on the re...
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2:19 Intro to Alternate Picking - Explanation Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style For this tutorial, I will be going over the basics of alternate picking. I’ll be discussing my view on the technique, and how I going about doing it physically and thinking about it mentally. Artists that I would recommend checking out for goo...
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0:29 Intro to Alternate Picking - Exercise 1 Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Lick 1 is a single string lick that can be used for a neo-classical type sound (see Lick 5). Along with making sure that you’re playing this accurately, focus on keeping the lower five strings muted so there is no excess string noise.
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0:29 Intro to Alternate Picking - Exercise 2 Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Lick 2 is just a little scale fragment. Focus on hitting the downstroke on the beginning of the lick every time it repeats.
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0:31 Intro to Alternate Picking - Exercise 3 Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Lick 3 is another classical sounding one. This is a lick that is used frequently among metal/shred guitar players. When played fast and cleanly it can sound really cool, and can be used to build tension at points in a solo. There i...
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0:33 Intro to Alternate Picking - Exercise 4 Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Lick 4 is a scale run up the neck. Scales are great for practicing alternate picking. They get you used to changing strings, and the licks can easily be reversed so you can practice descending as well. In my opinion, doing ascending alternate pick...
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0:46 Intro to Alternate Picking - Exercise 5 (Etude) Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Lick 5 is an expanded version of Lick 1. In this one you’ll be staying on one string, but changing positions of a scale. The end result is a cool neo-classical sounding lick. Focus on hitting that downstroke at the beginning of the pattern ...
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1:40 Licking Up the Modes: Ionian - Introduction Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hi guys! This tutorial is the first of seven tutorials that will be covered throughout the year. We'll be going through each mode one at a time starting with our first mode, Ionian. Each mode we cover will be relative to the key of C Major. ...
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3:37 Licking Up the Modes: Ionian - Discussion Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style IONIAN!!! So as I said earlier all of these licks will be in C Ionian (major). Within a C Maj7 chord we have various target notes, tensions we can add, and one "void" note. Below you will find the example chords that are played in the video ...
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0:40 Shred Licks III - Lick 1 Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style This lick involves some Petrucci-esque pedal tone licks, and some Paul Gilbert-esque string skipping shapes. Really focus on your muting while doing the string skipping. The shapes are moving fast and there’s a lot of room for extra string nois...
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1:08 Shred Licks III - Lick 2 Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Here’s a little sweeping thing that I wrote a few years ago. I was very influenced by Jason Becker and Jeff Loomis at the time. The difficult part about this lick is how a few of the arpeggios descend three strings, then change positions and st...
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2:28 Solving Mode Mysteries - Intro & Minor Modes Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Let's examine modes in a "meat and potatoes" kind of way; a way that enables you to use the box shapes you already know to produce different musical textures that perhaps were unattainable with a one-track "major or minor" mind-set. Let's stay away f...
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1:55 Solving Mode Mysteries - Major Modes Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style ALL the rules applied to the three minor modes work in the exact same way for the following major modes. We'll begin by playing through three major scales over one major chord, and then we'll have a look at confining the scales to one position (revol...
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1:24 Shred Licks II - Lick 1 Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Here are a few challenging licks that involve a few techniques. These licks deal with finger tapping, legato, alternate picking, and sweep picking. Have fun with them, and take them slow! Lick 1 is a melodic tapping sequence that I wrote a few years...
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0:36 Shred Licks II - Lick 2 Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Crazy! Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Lick 2 is a bit tricky! Don’t let the speed of the lick intimidate you. Just play it a whatever tempo is comfortable to you at the moment. This lick involves sweeping, tapping, and alternate picking. You’ll but using a bit of the techniq...
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5:06 Intro to Sweep Picking - Intro & Explanation Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Intro This tutorial is on the basics of sweep picking. We’ll be going over my view of sweeping, my technique, and a few 3 and 5 string arpeggio shapes to get you started. Check out artists like Frank Gambale, Nevermore/Jeff Lo...
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1:30 Intro to Sweep Picking - 3 String Sweeps Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style 3 string sweeps We’re going to start out with 3 string sweep shapes. I’m providing you with the essential shapes you will need to get started, and from here you should be able to experiment and find out some favorite arpeggios of...
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2:05 Intro to Sweep Picking - 5 String Sweeps Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style 5 string sweeps Now, we’ll move on to 5 string sweeps. Here I give you the most common 5 string sweep shapes to get you started. All of the shapes are extended versions of the 3 string sweeps in the last part of the lesson. Th...
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1:05 Kill The Noise! - Intro/Legato Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hey guys, for this tutorial I wanted to touch on something that I've received quite a few requests for - killing the noises that you don't wanna hear! In other words, let's focus on specific techniques used in the muting process alongside a variety o...
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1:52 Kill The Noise! - Tapping Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style "Killing The Noise" When Tapping Ex. 1: Here we see a very basic tap lick - an A minor triad spread out over three frets on one string. Remember, we aren't worried about note choices and interesting licks/shapes at the moment - let's solidify our m...
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0:39 Kill The Noise! - String-Skipping Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style "Killing The Noise" When String-Skipping Ex. 1: Let's try a six note sequence which includes string skipping. Missing the B string each time will definitely throw a wrench into things! This is where accuracy and fret-hand strength are imparitive. T...
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0:58 Kill The Noise! - Picking Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style "Killing The Noise" When Alternate Picking Ex. 1: A fairly standard F# locrian (Em) pattern which ascends through three octaves. Let's break it down. There are a few observations to be made about the noise reduction when alternate picking...
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1:31 Shred Licks - Intro & Lick 1 Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Intro I’m going to start my lessons off here at Infinite Guitar with a few licks. These licks are meant to work on at least 2-3 different techniques at once. You’ll be doing a bit of alternate picking, legato, finger tapping, and...
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1:07 Shred Licks - Lick 2 Instructor: Travis Montgomery Level: Crazy! Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Lick 2 This lick involves sweeping, tapping, economy picking, and legato. It starts off with an ascending arpeggio into a tap, then slides up into some legato and another tap on the 24th fret. This starts a descending sweeping lick with some ...
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1:58 Feen's Trick Bag! - Intro & Lick 1 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Welcome back IG-ers! For this tutorial, let's dive into three licks that will be sure to challenge you in three different ways.Let this lesson serve as an avenue for exploring some techniques that can help achieve the note choices you want...
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1:07 Feen's Trick Bag! - Lick 2 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Lick 2: This one will cause some tangliness with the right hand. I decided to devise a pattern that works flawlessly for economy picking. Again, another way to achieve a series of notes while using an alternate approach - in this case, using a stacc...
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0:52 Feen's Trick Bag! - Lick 3 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Lick 3 So, keeping with the theme of spreading out intervals - here's one that involves a bunch of wacky-sounding arpeggios played in non-conventional ways. Incorporating some economy picking and legato, we achieve a sound that works against the rhy...
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7:09 Free Composing Creative Drum Grooves Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Hey folks! In this tutorial we're going to take a brief look at a few things I do when approaching drum composition. Oftentimes I may have a cool riff idea and I'm faced with the task of creating a drum beat that not only sounds decent, but also soun...
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2:58 Composing Creative Drum Grooves - Backing Track Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Here is the backing track with guitar and bass only. Tempo is 160bpm. Go ahead and download the mp3 and import it into your DAW, then set the tempo to 160bpm, then start creating some cool grooves!
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0:38 Infinite Endurance - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style I always receive questions along the lines of "How did you develop your technique?", "What is your practice regimen?", "How did you get so fast?". For one, I never really had a practice regimen and more-or-less played for the love of playing, but the...
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4:29 Infinite Endurance - Part 1: Pick Hand Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Very ala Petrucci/Gilbert, let's get our pick hand fired up by blowing through each and every mode of G major. With each full ascend (occupying 5 bars) we see the same "up-down-up" pattern. After each of these ascends, however, we're faced with a qu...
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3:17 Infinite Endurance - Part 2: Fret Hand Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So let's take the exact same "up and down" scalar motion, and put our fret hand to work. I've always found that the most efficient way of warming up the fret hand is by playing things that are slightly uncomfortable. What I mean by this is, involvin...
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4:20 Finger Independence - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Welcome! In this tutorial we will take a look at two exercises to help build your left hand finger independence and coordination. When we think of coordination exercises, we most often think of scale-based or chromatic single string exercises, gear...
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6:02 Finger Independence - Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style In part 2, we take the same position and idea, but up the ante considerably. Now we are dealing with 2 fingers, moving in pairs, while the others remain anchored on the G-string. Now it is important to note that even though you do not HAVE to move ...
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2:59 Pedalboard Walkthrough - Overview Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style Hello IG! I hope you enjoy this video series. If you're a beginner, and want some basic pointers for a live pedal setup, this video should be great. If you're an intermediate or advanced player, and you're just curious as to what I currently use... ...
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5:01 Pedalboard Walkthrough - Pedals in Front (Part 1) Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style Items discussed: True Bypass Wah-Wah Chorus
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4:14 Pedalboard Walkthrough - Pedals in Front (Part 2) Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style Items discussed: Compressor Boost
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6:46 Pedalboard Walkthrough - Pedals in the Loop (Part 1) Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style Items discussed: In front of the amp vs. in the loop Placement of common effects Phaser Analog Delay
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4:36 Pedalboard Walkthrough - Pedals in the Loop (Part 2) Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style To wrap things up, we spend a bit more time talking about the analog delay, as well as my digital tape echo. If you have any questions, requests, or feedback, please contact me on the IG forum!
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1:43 From Scales to Chords - Part 1 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Hi guys, For this lesson, I'd like to back-track and offer a different way of visualizing how we learn chords. So often, I see players who cannot identify chords within a diatonic progression, yet know scales and modes like no tomorrow. The main go...
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0:41 From Scales to Chords - Part 2 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Assuming we're still in A minor, let's try a different set of strings. This time, rooted on the A string, let's try out each set of chords, layering first with simple 5ths, an added octave, thirds, and so on. Just because the first note of the chor...
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0:33 From Scales to Chords - Part 3 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Theory Style: Any Style 1) Let's try a different chord structure. Rather than layering the chord in the "root - fifth" format, let's try harmonizing the root directly and solely with it's 3rd. 2) From here, it's very simple to add other harmony other than a perfect 5th. In...
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0:40 From Scales to Chords - Part 4 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Let's try starting from open-position, and this time, let's try something a little more "out-side" with regards to harmony; Sus4 chords. The root note is in tact, as is the chords 5th (highlighted on the high E string) and we're raising the third up...
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1:15 7-String Essentials - Scales Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Let's learn our B string by examining how it corelates with the rest of the strings by playing through the 7 modes (in G major). A few notes... By ignoring the low B string, you'll quickly see how "normal" everything else looks. Whicheve...
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4:11 7-String Essentials - Arpeggios Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Because our low B string is tuned a perfect 5th below the adjacent E string, (much like our E to A, A to D and D to G strings are) arpeggios and scales will seem to fall together relatively quickly due to the familiar symmetry. Bars 1 through ...
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2:23 7-String Essentials - Chords Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style So let's start out this lesson by analyzing how chord shapes work with a low B string. You'll notice that the basic bar-chord shapes remain the same, but we must avoid the G string (and all strings lower) due to the guitar's natural tuning "flaw" ca...
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3:57 Tapped Arpeggios - Technique and Note Break-Down Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style This tutorial comes after receiving quite a few requests to tackle the subject: tapped arpeggios. We'll be analyzing the note sequences which will best highlight chord voicings, primarily focusing on major, minor, diminished and augmented for part 1....
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5:09 Tapped Arpeggios - 3 Octave Exercises Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In the transcription below, we see tons and tons of notes. Be aware, however, there's really only three exercises here. We'll just be demonstrating the actual patterns in four different arpeggio shapes (minor, major, diminished and augmented). ...
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0:22 Tapped Arpeggios - Etude in F Major Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So let's throw together some of these arpeggios into a musical context. We'll be highlighting a 6 1 5 4 progression in F. So, the chords are as follows: Dm, F, C, BbThe progression then concludes with a D diminished run. Now, let's take this ...
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0:28 Tapped Arpeggios - Descending Minor Inversions Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Alright, to conclude, here's some food for thought. I've taken a simple A minor arpeggio and arranged it in a descending fashion with alternating inversions. We'll be playing nothing more than A, C and E, but in a way that'll have your brain twistin...
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3:58 Beginner's 15 Minute Picking Workout - Concept Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style The main obective for this lesson is to teach a workout plan, similar to that which a bodybuilder would use for a weight lifting day at the gym. Basically, we will be working on 5 exercises, 3 of which are essential for right-hand chops. Our objectiv...
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4:31 Beginner's 15 Minute Picking Workout - Routine Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now it's time to dig in! Before you begin, please take the time to perform a proper warm-up and stretch! You can view my tutorial on this by clicking here. Sample Workout Plan Exercise 1: Downstrokes Set 1 - 60 seconds: picking, 30 secon...
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0:29 Beginner's 15 Minute Picking Workout - Examples Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here are the five main examples, played at 84bpm. The purpose for this is solely to give you an example of 16th notes, played over a metronome. Practice hard!
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3:00 3-Note-Per-String Pentatonics - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hey guys, For this tutorial, I wanted to focus on something that I frequently practice and incorporate into my lead playing - stretching the pentatonic scale out over three notes per-string. What we get in doing so, is a pattern which includes notes...
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1:42 3-Note-Per-String Pentatonics - Playing in Octaves Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style So let's start in A minor. The A minor pentatonic consists of 5 notes, obviously, but we'll be playing in groupings of 6 which will cover all 5 pentatonic notes. This isn't overly "conventional" in the sense that we aren't sticking to an ascend of on...
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0:38 3-Note-Per-String Pentatonics - Exercise 1 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So let's dive right into some "practical" context stuff and examine how we can use this technique to inspire some awesome licks based on notes we already know. Exercise 1 is completely full of position shifts and literally covers notes in every pent...
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0:42 3-Note-Per-String Pentatonics - Exercise 2 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style This next exercise is based in C minor. We'll be covering the first two minor pentatonic positions while descending in groups of 5. Sticking to notes strictly related to the pentatonic scale, you'll begin to hear some very flavorful, interesting and ...
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0:49 3-Note-Per-String Pentatonics - Exercise 3 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style To finish, let's try a descending lick that warrants a more linear voicing, with less position-shifting. I very often hear from students, and have experienced myself, the greater difficulty in descending vs. ascending scale patterns, or vice versa, s...
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8:15 The Basics of Miking an Amp - Overview Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Hi guys, This tutorial focuses on some basic principles for miking a guitar amp, in both a live, and a studio situation. In each of the following videos, I'll include sound samples, to give you a proper understanding of the basic variations which ca...
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3:43 The Basics of Miking an Amp - Common Positions Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Basic position variables: Location: Center, Off-Center, Edge Axis: On or off. Measurement of angle. Distance: Distance between speaker and micrphone. Samples, in order: Center, on axis Off-center, on axis Edge, on axis Center, off ...
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4:32 The Basics of Miking an Amp - Types of Microphones Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Common types of microphones, for recording guitar amps: Dynamic: (Usually close miked, durable, standard for guitar amps/cabs. Ex: SM57) Ribbon: (Delicate, dark in tone, expensive, sensitive to room noise. Ex: CAD Trion 7000) Condenser: (Wide fr...
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5:04 The Basics of Miking an Amp - Final Demonstration Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style In this final clip, I spend a few minutes playing, and moving the microphone around. Hopefully by now, you have a clear understanding of the importance of mic position! Please provide feedback and requests for perhaps, an advanced miking tutorial. ...
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0:33 Outside Phrasing - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Introduction Hey guys, this month, I wanted to explore some tricks inspired by numerous players in the category of "outside phrasing". Meaning, small things that can be executed which could spice things up in the area of phrasing, and sounding uniqu...
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5:18 Outside Phrasing - Bending Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Bending So let's start by diving into some extended bends covering a range of intervals. A technique common to the likes of Jeff Beck, bending in this context can create for some powerful melody lines warranting a sound reflective of a bow instrumen...
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4:11 Outside Phrasing - Sliding Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Sliding Exercise A This exercise is Petrucci-esque, it's a technique he frequently uses when playing the harmonic minor scale as, yet again, it's dirrivative of something very middle-Eastern. The note sequence is a very simplistic descend in E harm...
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3:43 Outside Phrasing - Harmonizing Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Harmonizing This one's an extra I decided to throw in, it's a trick commonly executed by the likes of Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry) or some of the more bombastic, sometimes over-the-top players like Bumblefoot. The concept: Creating wacky-sounding di...
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3:20 Sweep Picking as a Tool - Concept Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hi folks! The main goal behind this tutorial, is to give you a number of sweep related licks that may be a bit less typical, to what you would normally play. If you have been using this technique for years, and years, you probably have developed a s...
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1:17 Makin' a Mayer - Performance Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Welcome everyone! In this tutorial, we'll be looking at a song riff in the style of John Mayer. This riff is something I came up with after watching his performance on "Storytellers". It's actually meant to be played on an acoustic but I didn't have...
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1:16 Makin' a Mayer - Intro and Verse(s) Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Now for the verse. Of course, if this song was to be true to the style of John Mayer, it would have to have some pretty killer vocals and lyrics on top, but since I'm not that proficient in either of those two fields, I'll leave that up to you ...
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0:58 Makin' a Mayer - Chorus Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Now, the chorus has something of a half-time feel compared to the verse, which I feel is a nice reprieve from the up-tempo groove of the verse riff. The same holds true here as well with the right hand. The right hand "slaps" mark the 2 and 4 ...
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0:51 Makin' a Mayer - Right Hand Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style In this part you can see how the "slap" and thumb techniques work in unison. I begin slowly, and as I build speed I gradually move from the "slow version" of the verse bass line to the line played in the performance section, and as I move the the tem...
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1:31 Makin' a Mayer - Backing Track Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Now for the backing track. I've given you a 4 beat countdown, then I've added a hi-hat on the 1 and 3 beats until the actual riff begins. Try it out!
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1:48 Eric Johnson Triads - Concept Instructor: Martin Miller Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hey friends, Today we’ll be dealing with a concept that has been fascinating me ever since I came across it: wide interval triads á la Eric Johnson, Steve Morse, etc. Firstly, let’s look at how these triads are constructed. Here ...
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0:37 Eric Johnson Triads - Fingerings Instructor: Martin Miller Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style In this part of the tutorial I’ll show you a few fingerings for the D Major and D minor wide-interval-triads. Of course, there are tons more but these are the most useable in my opinion. Be sure to always be aware of the function (e.g. root, 3r...
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1:05 The 4 Cable Method - Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Welcome to this tutorial on how to turn your Channel-Challenged Work Horse into a Multi-Channel Monster! What you need is an amp with a serial effects loop and a distortion channel you like. You'll also need a multi-effects unit (preferabl...
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9:14 The 4 Cable Method - How To Set It Up Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style So, the idea with the 4-cable method is to expand your amp. If you have ever used a single channel clean amp, or a dual-channel where you don’t like the gain channel, and only use the clean with pedals, you are of course aware that in this case...
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5:13 The 4 Cable Method - Creating a Rhythm Channel Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style On to creating our first channel. I want this first channel to be my Distorted rhythm channel, using the gain channel of the amp. Basically what I need here is to have only the FX-unit Loop activated with nothing else, and I will have the same ...
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7:50 The 4 Cable Method - Creating a Lead Channel Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Now on to creating our Lead Channel. There are several traditional ways of pushing an amp's gain channel into lead-level heaven. The old-school method would be to stick a classic OD in front of the amp (think “Tubescreamer-ish” OD’s...
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6:38 The 4 Cable Method - Creating a Clean Channel Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Creating the clean channel using the 4-cable method has its unique set of circumstances. Remember, as we are bypassing the preamp-section completely and going straight to the Power amp section of the amp, we do not have the tone shaping of the pream...
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0:21 Exploring the Sixth - Introduction Instructor: Martin Miller Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Welcome to another tutorial! This time we’ll be dealing with an interval called the sixth. Just to give you a brief theoretic explanation: an interval is the distance of the pitches of two notes. The sixth (unlike the fifth or fourth) is not a...
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0:44 Exploring the Sixth - Static Chord Instructor: Martin Miller Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style The next thing we’re gonna do is to utilize this interval over a static chord, in this case A7 (consisting of root-3rd, 5th, b7). The scale for the chord would be A mixolydian (notes of the D major scale against an A7 chord). Here’s the i...
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1:15 Delay Basics - Demonstration & Outline Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style Welcome! This lesson will cover some of the basic aspects that you will need to know, to efficiently use delay in your arsenal of tones! I will mainly be talking about the different types of delay, and some examples of their functional use in music....
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7:07 Delay Basics - Technical Walkthrough Part 1 Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style Types of Delay/Echo: Digital: exact or close replica of the original note (or sound). Analog: warm, dark, decaying with each repeat. Tape: warm, usually modulated, sometimes chaotic from flaws in the tape.
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4:54 Delay Basics - Technical Walkthrough Part 2 Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style Application: Timeless (non-rhythmic): used to fill space, off-sync with the song / tempo. Rhythmic: matched to fit a particular beat / note duration. Technical Terms: Delay: distance between original attack and repeat(s). Mix: volume of repeats....
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1:35 Delay Basics - Dotted 8th Note Example Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style For this example, we will set the delay time to a dotted 8th note. This is relavent to the tempo you choose to play at - if your delay pedal has a tap tempo, you would tap quarter notes, and set your delay time to dotted 8th notes. Once this is done,...
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0:51 Delay Basics - Quarter Note Example Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style For this example, we will set the delay time to a quarter note. Again, I play regular 8th notes, along with the delayed signal. I often use this technique, paired with a clean guitar part. This time, try arpeggiating the chords with your own pickin...
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3:16 Delay Basics - Volume Swell Application Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style Volume swells work great when using delay. Particularly if you have a heavy mix, and a high level of feedback. If you're interested in hearing more examples of this, check out some 'ambient guitar' music.
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4:14 Delay Basics - Oscillation Madness! Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Effects Style: Any Style Now it's time to get a little crazy! If you raise the feedback level, you can often cause an infinite loop that gets more intense with each repeat. Have some fun with this, and don't forget to play around with the delay knob to get some cool pitch e...
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0:35 Alternate Picking Workout - Introduction Instructor: Martin Miller Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hey friends, Holidays are drawing nearer and it’s time to get our alternate picking chops in shape! My goal with this tutorial is to show you a systematic way of approaching this technique in combination with creating sort of a “tempo lo...
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2:12 Alternate Picking Workout - Exercises 1 & 2 Instructor: Martin Miller Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Alright, in the tab below you have our first set of exercises. Let’s break them down individually. Exercise #1: I’m sure you recognize this as the classic Paul Gilbert-pattern. Truth is that it’s one of THE most effective exercises...
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1:03 Alternate Picking Workout - Exercises 3 & 4 Instructor: Martin Miller Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Exercise #3: Here’s a two-note-per-string pattern, very helpful for playing pentatonic lines. Exercise #4: Another pattern you’ve heard a thousand times, I’m sure. This one tackles licks on one string. The challenge is to per...
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0:58 Alternate Picking Workout - Exercises 5 & 6 Instructor: Martin Miller Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Exercise #5: Each note is picked twice here. Exercise #6: Here’s a common scale sequence that mixes up the amount of notes per string.
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1:10 Alternate Picking Workout - Exercises 7 & 8 Instructor: Martin Miller Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Exercise #7: It’s getting tougher. Here’s a minor arpeggio sequence utilizing a 1-note-per-string pattern, which is a huge challenge to play even at slow to mid-paced tempos. Exercise #8: Now we’re talking. This Steve Morse inspire...
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2:21 Nashville Numbers - Introduction Instructor: Jody Mac Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Introduction The Nashville number system allows you to quickly jump into unfamiliar music even without knowing standard notation! As the name suggests, it originated with Nashville studio musicians who needed a quick and easy way to transcri...
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3:49 Nashville Numbers - How They Work Instructor: Jody Mac Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Theory Now that we know the chords of the diatonic key (naturally occurring chords within the major scale), we can apply the follow roman numerals to each of the chords: I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii. The uppercase...
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8:24 Alternate Tunings - Part 1: Open E Major Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Welcome to this tutorial on Alternate Tunings! The aim of this tutorial is not to provide you with tons of different tunings, nor to show you how to tune your guitars to these tunings. Let's assume that you already know how to tune your guitar. We ...
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4:16 Alternate Tunings - Part 2: Open E Major Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style So, in this second example we take a common "country roll" arpeggio (like the one used in my Bridging the gap to Country tutorial), and see how we can use that in this open E tuning. The challenge when trying to apply more scale based licks in an ope...
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6:55 Alternate Tunings - Part 3: DADGAD Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Now, the DADGAD-tuning, or open sus4 tuning as it is also called, is a very common tuning in both modern rock, and alternative pop. I guess for the mainstream audience it was brought to light during the grunge-era more than anything else, w...
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6:21 Alternate Tunings - Part 4: DADAAD Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style The final tuning is derived from the DADGAD-tuning, and is the same apart from the G being tuned up to A, thus having A on both the second and third string. The use of two identically tuned strings are also a great source of inspiration, an...
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1:09 Unlock the Fretboard - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style So to get started, this is a lesson for the people who've found themselves to be stuck playing through the same pentatonic boxes day-in, day-out, and are looking for a change. This is the most effective way I've found my students to break out of the ...
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5:27 Unlock the Fretboard - Learn The Scale Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style The following examples are given in the key of E minor/G major, but I will explain how to transpose to other keys afterward, so be patient. I want to begin by demonstrating the key of E minor in groupings of 6, starting from open E through to it's oc...
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2:57 Unlock the Fretboard - Getting Comfortable Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style After memorizing the 7 symmetrical positions, practice each scale segment in it's three octaves one-after-another. Keep in mind that these scales work great for picking/legato exercises as well, so have fun and be creative in the process!
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3:34 Unlock the Fretboard - Apply To Other Keys Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Now, as promised, let's try this method out in other keys. The beauty about learning guitar-theory, is once you learn one scale, to alter it's key, it usually just requires shifting everything up or down the fret-board, and this is no different. To a...
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1:08 Repetition in Soloing - Concept Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hi there! I'd like to start by saying that this tutorial is going to be broken up into several parts. The first part (ex 1-3) is very, very basic. Today, we'll try a few simple licks, that work well when repeated. At a later date, I'll be adding a n...
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0:31 Repetition in Soloing - Example 1 Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style This lick would typically be used by a "shredder", most likely in the climax of a solo. It would most likely sound best at a moderately fast speed. Try playing this with, and without a metronome. This type of lick does not necessarily need to be pla...
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0:21 Repetition in Soloing - Example 2 Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style This example is easy to use in a number of different genres. It falls into the commonly used Pentatonic box, which makes it really easy to add in, and connect to other ideas. After you get a grasp on the lick, try improvising, and writing some longe...
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0:19 Repetition in Soloing - Example 3 Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here's another simple lick that I commonly use. You can think of this lick as a connector lick, that you can use to fill space between ideas, when improvising. It's always nice to have some quick and easy 'go-to' licks in your arsenal! Take note of ...
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2:12 Setting Yourself Apart - Sight Reading: Intro Instructor: Jody Mac Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Hey Guys! This tutorial is an introduction to sight reading. It assumes that you are already familiar with standard notation on the treble clef. If you aren't ready to dive into it yet, be sure to check out the audio lessons under Robert Mussa...
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2:28 Setting Yourself Apart - Sight Reading: Rhythm Instructor: Jody Mac Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style This example is a rather tedious, but highly beneficial exercise to work into your practice routine. It uses a repeated note (open b string) and cycles through four single meters - 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 5/4. We will leave out compound (6/8, 9/8, 12/...
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2:44 Setting Yourself Apart - Sight Reading: Jazz Phrase Instructor: Jody Mac Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The last example is a Jazz phrase over a II/V/I chord progression in the key of Db Major. It begins to tie together the concepts of rhythm and notation reading. I've intentionally put it in a key with five flats to add an extra challenge to your read...
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1:48 Finger Tone Part 1 - Introduction Instructor: Jody Mac Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style One of the most important, and often overlooked elements of the guitar is the tone created by your fingers. It is the first point of contact that you have with the guitar, and possibly one of the most crucial in creating an identity on the instrument...
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0:26 Next-Level Strumming - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Next-Level StrummingIntroduction This months lesson will focus solely on strumming. For those of you who have surpassed the beginning stages of basic quarter and 8th beat strumming phrases, this lesson is focusing on breaking through to the next lev...
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3:41 Next-Level Strumming - Reggae Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Next-Level StrummingReggae Feel Exercise 1:This reggae pattern is perhaps one of the most common within the genre. It begins with the accented root note, the chop of the higher end of the major chord, 2 muted 8th beat accents followed by 2 phrased 8...
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2:39 Next-Level Strumming - Celtic Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Next-Level StrummingCeltic A fairly common pattern made "difficult". Not really, but it sure seems that way! The reason for the altered picking direction one beat prior to the final set of triplets in bar 1 is for beat-emphasis. Traditional Irish mu...
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1:42 Stretching & Warm-Up - Introduction Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hey guys! As mentioned, this tutorial is a bit different than what you may expect to see from me! Please, please, please! Take the time to go through this series of videos, and strongly consider some of the cautions that I raise. Items Discussed in...
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6:51 Stretching & Warm-Up - Basic Stretches Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Physical Temperature is often over-looked, when developing a proper warm-up routine. A few stretching techniques mentioned in this video: Wrist-Back Stretch Wrist-Forward Stretch Basic Thumb Stretch Also be sure to massage the wrist and hand.
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4:54 Stretching & Warm-Up - Before a Show Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Now let's move on to preparation for either a practice session, or a performance scenario. For the most part, my goal here is to your muscles working! Get the blood flowing, get your muscles ready, etc. Have some fun and play some high-speed nonsen...
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6:15 Stretching & Warm-Up - Exercise Ideas Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Now, it's time to actually practice a specific exercise. Check out the tab below, and remember to repeat this sequence as desired, moving up one fret each time. As mentioned, it would also be a good idea to do a couple right-hand-specific warm-ups. ...
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3:01 Stretching & Warm-Up - Final Advice Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Thanks for watching, and I hope these ideas help your performance, and keep you injury free!
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8:10 Thirdless Voicings - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Welcome! In this tutorial we're going to take a gander at thirdless voicings and how to use these both to further our own improvisation, but also as practicing tools for ear training, as well as excellent song writing tools! A thirdless voicing is ...
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5:29 Thirdless Voicings - Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style So, the first thing we want to get in our heads are how the different chord tones sounds in relation to the thirdless voicings. So, I want you to sing as you play the chords the roots (A,F,G), then the fifths (E,C,D) and finally the thirds (C,A,B). T...
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7:21 Thirdless Voicings - Part 4 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style So, "fusion" then... Fusion is of course a very broad genre, so we will just focus on the kind of modern fusion that leans heavily towards quartal harmony and such. In the first part, with the progression borrowed from the Vibrato tutorial, we were v...
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1:34 Thirdless Voicings - Outro Improvisation Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style And here is the impro. Even though I make a conscious effort to work around the thirds we discussed, it's still an improvisation, and as such I don't limit myself to simply that, but go were the moment takes me. After looking through this, head ove...
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6:24 Thirdless Voicings - Backing Track Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style OK guys, here is the backing track I used for the outro improvisation. What I've done is just loop it four times, so you can improvise over it, going back and forth over the first and second voicings.
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6:08 Original Music of Richard Lundmark Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Hey guys! This is a performance video showcasing clips from songs I've written and also used in previous tutorials. I hope you enjoy the music, and be sure to check out these tutorials if you haven't already! NeoBlues Song Tutorial TT-Zop Song Tut...
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1:44 Creating Your Own Pulse - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Part 1: Creating Your Own Pulse - An Introduction to 8th Beat PolymetersWhat this lesson will introduce, or engrain in your brains is just another method for making your improvisational skills set you apart. Drummers love guitarists with great rhythm...
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2:09 Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 2/4 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Improv Techniques - Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 2/4 So let's take number one and apply our rhythmic grouping. We'll find that this one basically consists of two groups of four - or in other words - simply two sequences of the same four notes...
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3:10 Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 3 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Improv Techniques - Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 3 Here we see groupings of three eigth notes (not to be confused with triplets) being played to a straight four feel. Due to the meter being cut off each time (when only playing the sequence f...
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1:38 Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 5 Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Improv Techniques - Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 5 Here, we're introduced to a grouping of five and then a grouping of three, just to get our brains working in five-mode. Longer sequences can get very tricky, but confining these sequences to ...
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1:06 Creating Your Own Pulse - Finale Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style A very common issue when practicing odd groupings like these is that players will actually miss the soul purpose behind them by not being completely locked in with the underlying rhythm (whatever it might be - backing track, rhythm guitar, drums, etc...
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4:57 Right Hand Dynamics - Signal Chain / Gear Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Hi there! Welcome to my tutorial on 'Right Hand Dynamics.' The point of this tutorial is to touch on various concepts, and techniques, that will help you develop a myriad of tones, sounds, and dynamic levels. In this video, I discuss the electronic ...
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6:19 Right Hand Dynamics - Concepts Instructor: Steve Hubbard Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Some additional concepts/topics in this video: Location of Pick (near the bridge vs. towards the neck) Pick Attack (soft or hard, using upstrokes for tonal reasons) Something that I again forgot to mention: The pick that you use, makes a huge diff...
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6:41 Vibrato and Timing - To the Beat Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Welcome to this follow-up to the Vibrato 101 tutorial. As I mentioned in that tutorial, I thought that timing and vibrato merits its very own tutorial, so here we go. First of all, remember how we discussed the "smooth and even" vibrato in the previ...
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4:30 Vibrato and Timing - Floating Time Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Okay, so what do I mean by "floating time"? What this means is that you, whilst keeping your vibrato even, play faster or slower in relation to the beat. For example, one thing you could try is to set your metronome at 120bpm, and then practice the 1...
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1:35 Vibrato and Timing - Improv Demonstration Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style What I've done here is improvise over a 120bmp backing in Am. You can view this as either being pure Amin (A Aeolian), as I'm mostly doing in this improvisation. However, since the backing is largely situated around the G chord, you can also play...
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2:40 Vibrato and Timing - Backing Track Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style And here's the backing track. As you can see it's in A min, but as I mentioned earlier, you can treat it as G mixolydian if you'd like. The chords are Amin7 (no5), Fsus2 (even though the G is an octave up doesn't make it a 9, since there is no third)...
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4:35 Economy Picking - Introduction Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hey guys! I decided to break down some cool economy-picked licks. Economy picking is a great technique to aquire in your repetoire of shred-tastic abilities, so take your time and make sure to pay close attention to the picking-direction details give...
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1:00 Economy Picking - Diminished Arpeggios Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Adim Descending Arpeggio (Groupings of 5)Here's our second example - it features the diminished triad descending through four different positions.Identify the first note of each grouping. For instance, the first group of five begins on the F note (13...
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1:05 Economy Picking - Dominant 7 Arpeggios Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style G7/C7/F7 Asceding Arpeggios (Groupings of 7)Our third example in includes three ascending patterns, each highlighting dominant 7 chords, the first being a G7, the second, C7, and finally F7. This is a great lick and can be executed in various styles ...
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1:10 Economy Picking - Odd Groupings Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Mixed Descending Arpeggios (Odd Groupings)On to number four. This one features, once again, four positions being played in a descending fashion. It begins by higlighting an Am7 arpeggio by playing a grouping of five notes, descending from the high E ...
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1:08 Economy Picking - Complete Madness! Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Complete Madness!Here's the fifth and final excercise for Advanced Economy Picking. This one, entitled "Complete Madness" contains a pile of different position-shifts and technique derivatives.It begins with a 5-string Am swept arpeggio, starting fro...
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6:23 Vibrato 101: Part 1 - Do's and Don'ts of Vibrato Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Welcome to this tutorial on Vibrato! In this video I've put emphasis on the "show & tell" principle rather than tons of text for you to read, and enforced my video examples with the graphs below. So I won't be ranting too much in the text in thi...
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5:45 Vibrato 101: Part 2 - The Door Knob Vibrato Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So, the first vibrato technique we will look into is what I call the "door knob" vibrato. The term refers to the rotation of the hand, rather than the fingers creating movement and exacting force. In this case there are two main things to alway...
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4:15 Vibrato 101: Part 3 - The Push/Pull Vibrato Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So, probably he most common type of vibrato is what I have labelled the "push/pull" vibrato. This is the vibrato that most of us learn from the get go. Grouping several fingers together (often) and pushing the strings by manner of extending your fing...
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3:32 Vibrato 101: Part 4 - The Open Hand Vibrato Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style This vibrato that I call the "open hand" vibrato, IS what it's called. You're using a open hand around the neck, to facilitate greater, quicker, and more aggressive movement of the fingers and hand, and thus increasing the impact of the vibrato. This...
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5:07 Vibrato 101: Part 5 - The Violin Vibrato Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style The violin or classical vibrato is not something you'll find many players using these days, Holdsworth being one noteable exception. As mentioned in the vid, and exemplified below, it entails pulling and pushing the string along the length of th...
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4:03 Vibrato 101: Part 6 - Circular or Elliptical Vibrato Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style The circular vibrato is one of these things that looks cooler than it actually is. What it is, is a combination of the violin vibrato and the regular doorknob vibrato. You should try to move your finger in an elliptical movement along the string, cre...
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4:01 Vibrato 101: Part 7 - Chords and Headstock Bending Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style CAREFUL here! You do NOT want to take these examples too far. Pushing the neck of the guitar back and forth in relation to the body has been a way to do chord vibrato without a tremolo for ages. Doesn't mean you should do it forcefully and all time t...
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8:16 Vibrato 101: Part 8 - Vibrato and Bending Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Bending and vibrato are pretty much like Love and Marriage, you don't see one without the other (to quote Sinatra). And having a good, stable, controlled and IN PITCH vibrato when bending is of course essential! In this first graph you see how a prop...
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5:12 Vibrato 101: Part 9 - Professional Vibrato Secrets Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So, what are these so called "professional secrets"?? Well, what unites most players that have a reputation for excellence in vibrato (such as Gilmour) it is the "vocal" quality of their vibrato that is most prominent. Just as with a singer you do no...
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4:09 Alternate Picking 101 - Technique Breakdown Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hey guys! In this lesson I really wanted to focus on the mechanics of alternate picking; how I've personally come to develop my own technique, and what you guys can do to further yours.To start; right hand technique. I see so many players out there p...
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1:41 Alternate Picking 101 - Exercise 1 - Chromatic Scale Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Here is a chromatic exercise. Chromatic scales in this context, are basically nonsense-scales that are to be used for practice and warm-up purposes. This exercise is one of the most commonly used by many guitarists in the "shred-world". Not only doe...
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1:05 Alternate Picking 101 - Exercise 2 - Triplet Feel Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Here we have a triplet exercise. Don't get your knickers in a knot, we'll be playing in groups of six. Six is an even number, so we'll avoid making awkward string transitions and keep it nice and basic! This lick contains six descending six-note grou...
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2:11 Alternate Picking 101 - Exercise 3 - Scalar Straight 16ths Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style We're heading back over to the straight 16th feel with this one, except this time, we'll be playing something a little more interesting! The patterns are simply groups of 6 notes, played ascending from the lowest note to highest note, then descendin...
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1:12 Bending Boot Camp - Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Attention recruit! Welcome to the Bending Boot Camp, where I will break you down, and build you up with the necessary skills to make a bending SEAL out of you! Jokes aside, this tutorial is aimed not throwing bending licks left and right at you, you...
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5:44 Bending Boot Camp - Ergonomics of Bending Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style So, the first thing we will be looking at is the actual ergonomics of bending, how we use our fingers when bending. The fingertip itself is the focal point when bending, upon which the strings will rest when bending. If you straighten your fingers to...
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3:13 Bending Boot Camp - Scale Length and Radius Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this part we discuss other things that affect bending on the guitar, namely Scale Length , and fret board Radius. Scale length means the length of the neck from the top nut to the bridge saddle. On a Fender type guitar, the length is usually ...
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6:50 Bending Boot Camp - String Gauge and Exercises Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style String gauge, or the thickness of your strings, is yet another thing that affects bending. If tuned to the same pitch, a thicker string will have higher tension. That is, bending a 0.09 string will be much easier than bending a 0.11 string. 0.09 stri...
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2:52 Fill it in! - Intro Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Welcome guys! In this tutorial we will look into a simple, yet effective practising method you can use to help nail your licks in the musical context of your choice. The idea here is to choose a riff, rhythm or chord progression that spans 2 ba...
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4:10 Fill it in! - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style And here we have the riff I've chosen as an example, just treat this and the licks to follow as the examples they are. The main lesson in this tutorial will be you finding and experimenting with your own ideas. The riff itself is pretty straight for...
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4:07 Fill it in! - Part 2.a Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Here's some short lick examples, in the video I mainly improvise all the variations, so I'll just give you a basic lick idea or two, that you can use as a guideline, and a starting point for your own lick excursions. Actually tabbing out every improv...
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6:07 Fill it in! - Part 2.b Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Nothing different here really, just me dividing the video in 2 parts for easier and faster viewing. Did some tab ideas here as well for you, just the two though, remember to find your own variations to your own ideas! Now, once you've gone through t...
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3:56 Creative Scales - Pentatonic Hybrid Scale Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hey everyone and welcome to this Creative Scales tutorial! We are going to get creative with the Pentatonic scale by creating a hybrid of two scales: A minor Pentatonic and E minor Pentatonic What we are going to do is make 2 groups of three strin...
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1:24 Creative Scales - Scale Positions Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Time to get working on the 5 scale positions! There are a number of ways you can visualize these shapes to make it easier for yourself. There are 2 methods which you can try. Either you can think completely in A minor (dorian) or you can think A min...
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1:01 Creative Scales - Improvisation Example Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style OK, here's a no frills improvisation example using the Pentatonic Hybrid scale. Hopefully, you can hear how pleasing it is to the ear with the addition of the 9th to the scale. Also take note that I try to stick to just the notes of the scale withou...
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1:36 Creative Scales - Backing Track Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Have fun with the backing track! Be sure to post a take in the forums so everyone can check out your improvisational skills. ;-)
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4:26 Creating Backing Tracks - Part 1 Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Hi there guys and welcome to this tutorial on creating backing tracks! We're going to be focusing on how I record my backing tracks with specific reference to the software I use and the plugins used to create the sounds. I use three pieces of softw...
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3:38 Creating Backing Tracks - Part 2 Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Okay! So now we've got the drum track set up in a simple form (no need for fills here as we want just an 8 bar loop). I now need to come up with a chord sequence to play over. As we've been studying playing over changes, let's do something akin to t...
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5:32 Creating Backing Tracks - Part 3 Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Now for the bass part in Trilian. In order to keep the video's time down I've already written the bass part off camera but I'll go through it for you in the video. The Trilian interface is very similar to Stylus RMX and it's very quick to select a ...
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2:31 Creating Backing Tracks - Part 4 Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style The final part I want to add is actually a lead guitar part. In other words I'm going to try jamming over the backing track I've created. For this guitar part I'm running my Suhr into the new Shiba Drive and a Redux delay pedal again straight into L...
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1:00 Creating Backing Tracks - Part 5 Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Okay so that about raps things up for this tutorial. Again, be aware that these are just the tools that I use for creating backing tracks, but there are many other products on the market that do the same job. You just have to find what works for you...
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3:17 Hybrid Picking - Introduction Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hey everyone and welcome to this new tutorial on Hybrid Picking! For the uninitiated, Hybrid Picking is a technique which requires the use of pick and right hand fingers. It's a technique which is used by all manner of guitarists such is the effecti...
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1:29 Hybrid Picking - Solo Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Okay guys, check out the video of our Hybrid Picking Solo Study and make any notes that you think will be relevant before we head on over to the breakdown videos. Practice hard and have fun!
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2:28 Hybrid Picking - Part 1 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Throughout this study we have a recurring right hand pattern which repeats throughout the majority of the piece. Once we have this pattern under our fingers we can concentrate on negotiating the chord changes as smoothly as we possibly can. I like t...
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1:31 Hybrid Picking - Part 2 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style We continue the piece with more of the same, this time with a series of descending diminished 7th chords. The fingering stays the same with the exception of the final diminished 7th chord. These chords are followed by a quite tricky passage wh...
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1:49 Hybrid Picking - Part 3 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style After the descending slurred passage we find ourselves back on familiar ground with the right hand pattern that by now you should be comfortable with. This continues until the final Em chord which is a repeat of the pattern we came across back in pa...
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3:23 Flexibility Boot Camp: Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Welcome to this tutorial on Flexibility Training guys! As our hands are our tools of the trade as guitar players, keeping them in shape, keeping them strong and flexible should be a priority for us. This tutorial is geared towards that end, and will...
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3:14 Flexibility Boot Camp: Exercise 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Ok, in this first example, we have an age-old exercise for flexibility and coordination. It’s all pretty self-evident in the video so you should need no in-depth explanation really. Just keep in mind that all notes must be able to ring out in u...
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3:17 Flexibility Boot Camp: Exercise 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style The second exercise is almost the exact same procedure as with the first, but the only difference is you keep one fret between each finger, as opposed to keeping them on adjacent frets as in Exercise 1. This will give your hands a good stretch! Just ...
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2:07 Flexibility Boot Camp: Exercise 3 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style This next exercise is called “the Spider”, named thus after the way your hand will resemble a large tarantula moving across the fret board. :) Same thing goes for this exercise as with the others. The notes must be allowed to ring out to...
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4:23 Flexibility Boot Camp: Exercise 4 and Chord Stretches Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style This last part consists of two “parts” really. First of all, you have Exercise 4, which is similar to Exercise 3 but played with 1 fret between each finger (same thing as we did with Exercises 1 and 2). Then, we're going to be trying out...
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5:22 Legato Technique - Hammer Time! Introduction Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hey there and welcome to this month's follow up tutorial. It's hammer time you lot! Now that you have practiced the basic principles we went over in the previous tutorial, you are ready to take a step forward with your legato technique. The majorit...
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2:20 Legato Technique - Hammer Time! Examples 1-4 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style These first set of exercises start with a b minor pentatonic scale. Make sure that throughout the exercises you do not slip back into using pull offs, hammers only gentlemen! Try not to use too much distortion if you can help it. This will really for...
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2:02 Legato Technique - Hammer Time! Examples 5-7 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style These next examples start with B Mixolydian. Again, make sure that you are making each note sound with the same volume and tone as the previous and be sure to pay close attention to the weaker index finger.
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1:47 Legato Technique - Hammer Time! Examples 8-12 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style These final examples are based around simple arpeggio shapes as opposed to the previous scale based examples. The position shifts may require some work and again, try to keep total control over every note that you play keeping everything as even as p...
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3:28 Legato Technique - Backing Track Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here's the drum backing for you to practice this month's exercises with. Best of luck!
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1:21 Making of a Song - Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Greeting guitar slingers! In this tutorial we will analyze a song of mine, still in the making. The reason for choosing such a song, is to be able to more easily explain a bit about the creative process in which the song develops. This tutorial wi...
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1:55 Making of a Song - Demonstration Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Any Style Here is the current draft of the main melody of the tune. This will give you an idea of how far from its basic origins it has developed, and perhaps a glimpse of what's to come for this little tune. As this is not in any way the finished product, I h...
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5:36 Making of a Song - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Ok, so here we begin with the basic chords upon which I built my melody. The key to any strong melody (at least in my experience) is to be able to sing it. If you work out a melody that you aren't able to sing, you can also be sure that a vast number...
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3:58 Making of a Song - Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style In this part I explain how I took the chords up to a higher position, in order to get a little more of that "john mayer" sound I was going for. Much of it is the same chords (some even the same voicings). However, as I took these chords up, I also l...
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7:13 Making of a Song - Part 3 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Here I explain more about the bridge part of the tune, and show the melody, and how the chords for this came to be. It differs quite a bit from the verse, since it is arpeggiated in a more traditional manner, and also uses the V-chord (F#7 in B minor...
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3:55 Making of a Song - Part 4 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style So, now we have covered all the parts leading up to what the song has grown into so far. The only thing remaining now is to check out what we have so far, and maybe try out a run over the backing track. So, head on over to the next page and give it ...
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1:57 Making of a Song - Backing Track Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style And finally, here's the exact backing track I'm using to play over. As I mentioned, it's just a rough "sketch" so far, but perhaps enough for you to get a feel for where it's heading. =) See you next time!
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5:18 Recording With Impulse Responses - Introduction Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Hi there guys! Welcome to this months tutorial which is a slight departure from what you were probably expecting. First let me say that "Playing over Changes Part II' is coming your way next month but I wanted to make that tutorial as awesome as pos...
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4:13 Recording With Impulse Responses - Explanation Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style So, as I said in the previous video, we'll be using convolution technology to record the preamp section of our amp and model the Power Amp and Cabinet section. This enables us to keep the fantastic tone produced by our amp yet record at low volumes a...
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3:14 Recording With Impulse Responses - Tone Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Okay, so I have my FX send connected by a standard guitar cable into Input 8 on my soundcard. Remember - I have NOT unplugged the speaker from my amplifier. I can still hear the sound of the amp coming through the cabinet - just very quietly as my vo...
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2:40 Recording with Impulse Responses - Software Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Here's the links for the IR hosts named above, LAConvolver for the Mac http://audio.lernvall.com/ Kefir for the PC http://habib.webhost.pl/ Voxengo Boogex for the PC http://www.voxengo.com/product/boogex/ Freeverb 3 for the PC http://freeverb...
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1:45 Basics of Legato Technique - Introduction Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hi and welcome to this new tutorial on the subject of Legato. I'm going to break this subject up into two tutorials which will start with the basic essentials of this technique and progress to the more advanced material in the follow up. Please reme...
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2:45 Basics of Legato Technique - Thumb Positioning Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style The first step is to consider the left hand thumb positioning on the back of the neck. More often than not, the ideal position for the thumb is opposite somewhere between the first and second fingers of the left hand. This does provide a nice solid b...
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4:07 Basics of Legato Technique - Economy of Motion Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now that we have the thumb positioning covered, I'd like to discuss an element of playing that is not only applicaple to legato style playing but to everything and that is economy of motion. It does have it's roots based pretty firmly in legato techn...
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4:55 Basics of Legato Technique - Muting Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style One of the most important techniques that we need to achieve control over our legato technique is a good solid muting technique. Again, this technique will be beneficial to you whatever technique you are employing but as discussed before, the focus i...
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2:15 Basics of Legato Technique - Closing Notes Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style OK now that you have these basic but extremely important elements in place you will need to get practicing them in order to be ready for the follow up tutorial. It is essential that you create a solid foundation for yourself to build your legato skil...
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4:34 Ear Training - Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Welcome to this tutorial on ear training techniques! I’m sure many of you have already had some kind of ear training in school, and are familiar with the concept. What I want to do here is to perhaps give you some new exercises that will help ...
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6:11 Ear Training - Absolute vs. Relative Pitch Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style As discussed in the introduction, there are 2 sides of the “hearing coin”. One side is Absolute Pitch (Color hearing pitch, perfect pitch, it has many names). What this entails is the ability to hear any note played to you, and be able to...
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8:19 Ear Training - Exercise 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So, this is our first exercise, not counting the preparatory one you just did, singing all up and down the neck in your chosen interval. As mentioned in the video, I recommend that you start out with one of the following intervals b3, 3, 4, 5, becau...
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2:56 Ear Training - Exercise 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style In this exercise we make the whole thing a little bit harder. Instead of playing the root note of the interval, singing that, and then singing the target pitch, we will now sing the target pitch only. For example, you are practicing your major sixths...
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5:17 Ear Training - Testing Your Ear Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So, we need to be able to TEST ourselves right? To confirm that we really DO have these intervals firmly established in our mind. So how do we go about this then? Well, the testing should be done in 2 parts as I see it. First, you should either test...
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4:50 Ear Training - Improvising and Melodic Sense Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Ok guys, in this part we will start to sing melodies over chords. There is no shame in having a less-than excellent singing voice, heck listen to my “strangling a wolverine in a coffee jar”-wavering voice, and you should feel just fine an...
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8:03 Ear Training - Final Exercises and Comments Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style In this final part we will try to establish the “sound-character” or individual scales. When we previously sang and played notes over a chord (recorded, a friend playing, or what not), we had a back drop, and a frame of reference that tel...
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3:02 Vibrato Technique - Introduction Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hi everybody and welcome to this tutorial on vibrato. This tutorial is the next step on from the previous string bending tutorial. I like to think of vibrato technique as essentially a different form of string bending in that they are both a manipu...
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3:34 Vibrato Technique - Different Strings and Fingers Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style The next logical step is to take the basic principal we talked about in the previous video and apply it across all 6 strings. We are going to start with the 6th string at the 5th fret and we will do the semi-tone bend using a downward movement start...
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4:09 Vibrato Technique - Applying Vibrato with Bends Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now we are going to have a look at a technique which I consider to be a very difficult one. What we are going to do is apply a string bend to a fretted note and then apply vibrato whilst holding the bend at the target note. This can present some dif...
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3:06 Vibrato Technique - Different Vibrato Styles Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style So far we have only looked at the standard blues-rock style vibrato. There are other techniques that we can use to manipulate the pitch and while I very rarely use anything other than the standard vibrato technique, it is well worth experimenting wit...
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6:39 Slide Guitar - "Experimental" Slide Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style This final chapter deals with some more experimental slide techniques. Many slide players play slide above the range of the fret board to access notes normally unavailable for them. Duane Allman, Jeff beck, Derek Trucks are some of the names. Brett G...
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1:32 Anvil Studio - Introduction and Installation Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Welcome everyone! In this tutorial, we're going to take a look at a software program called Anvil Studio. This software is an excellent tool for musicians who wish to compose and more. And best of all, it's free! Visit the following li...
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4:00 Anvil Studio - Creating Instrument Tracks Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style In this video, we'll cover the basics of creating your first instrument tracks. Each instrument track can have a particular midi instrument assigned to it. As you'll see in the video, there are many instruments to choose from, such as pianos, organs,...
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4:05 Anvil Studio - Creating Drum Tracks Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Now let's go ahead and create a drum track. When you create a drum track in Anvil Studio, you'll have the option to select which particular drums you want assigned to your drumkit. I generally just use typical drum sounds such as the kick, snare, tom...
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8:39 Anvil Studio - Example Composition Riff Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style In this video, we'll compose a short example riff so you can get a general idea on how you can compose with Anvil Studio. Feel free to pause the video whenever necessary so you can follow the steps I'm taking. You don't have to compose with the same...
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3:33 String Bending - Introduction Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hey there and welcome to this tutorial on String Bending technique! I personally feel that this particular technique is often neglected by guitarists even though it is something which can help your musicianship immeasurably. Approached in the right ...
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2:14 String Bending - Example 1 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Ok, here we have three similar examples which start with a semi-tone bend followed by a tone bend. We will use A minor pentatonic for these examples. We will also be using the third finger for these bends so make sure to impliment the left hand posit...
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1:26 String Bending - Example 2 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Let's take things a step further by doing a minor 3rd bend (3 frets). This does require a little more strength from the left hand and may require some work to get the intonation spot on. Remember to play these examples with the target pitches so tha...
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1:43 String Bending - Example 3 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style With the following examples we will be performing the bends with the index finger and as a result we will not be able to use any idle fingers to help us to bend the string. This does present a challenge certainly if you have never tried this techniqu...
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1:16 String Bending - Example 4 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this example we will be moving sequentially through the scale of A minor pentatonic but keeping it all within the confines of one string: the g string. Due to the nature of the pentatonic scale, we will be required to use a mixture of whole tone b...
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1:24 String Bending - Example 5 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style This example is slightly different than the previous examples in that we will be required to sustain other notes whilst performing the string bends at the same time. We have a mixture of semi-tone and tone bends coupled with changes between the secon...
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1:24 String Bending - Example 6 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style This final example is a short but deceptively awkward lick to get right. The challenge is in targeting the correct successive pitch while releasing the string. It will be essential for you to play the fretted target notes before you actually try the...
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2:49 Time Feel and your Internal Metronome - Intro Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Beginner Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Hi guys! Welcome to this tutorial - a lesson all about developing your internal metronome and time feel. Time in music is without a doubt the most important aspect of your playing. This has been demonstrated most graphically in my mind by guitarist ...
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1:56 Time Feel - Exercise 1: Explanation Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Beginner Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Right - Here we go! The first thing we'll need to be able to do is to play both on and off the beat whilst feeling each beat of the bar with your internal metronome. To demonstrate this, here's a visual representation of 2 bars of 4/4 sub-divided in...
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0:35 Time Feel - Exercise 1: Demonstration Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Beginner Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style Here's a demonstration of Exercise 1. In the video my metronome is set to 82bpm. Refer to the TAB if you're confused in any way and tap your foot at all times throughout this exercise.
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5:20 Free Shell Voicings - Build Your Chord Vocabulary Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Now, here is the aspect of shell voicings that I think you'll find the most useful. They make a fantastic starting point for building our chord vocabulary. Due to the fact that they are constructed from the minimum number of notes needed to produce ...
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0:47 Pedal Note Arpeggio Study - Solo Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hey there and welcome to this lesson! Today we will be learning another arpeggio study I wrote specifically for you guys here which has particular emphasis on pedal notes. Just to clarify if you are not sure, put as simplistic as possible a pedal no...
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0:42 Pedal Note Arpeggio Study - Part 1 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style OK, you'll really need to focus on the clarity between the notes throughout the study and as always, make sure you practice it as slowly as possible and let your ears be your guide. If you are using a pick(which I think 99.9% of you will be doing) i...
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1:08 Pedal Note Arpeggio Study - Part 2 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this 2nd section we see the patterns that have already been established ascending by step through each diatonic chord until we reach the highest point of the fretboard that we can go. Technically, once you have mastered the right hand pattern thi...
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0:40 Pedal Note Arpeggio Study - Part 3 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now that we have reached the highest note on the fret board, well my fretboard at least lol, we are going to make a descent on the top two strings. Be very careful with this patter because at speed you may find that maintaining the rhythm for every n...
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0:54 Pedal Note Arpeggio Study - Backing Track Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here is the backing track at normal tempo. If it's a bit too fast for you, go on to the next few pages to access the slower backings. Have fun and when you're ready get recording so we can see you play it in the forums!
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1:06 Pedal Note Arpeggio Study - Slowed BT (120bpm) Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here is the backing track at 120 bpm. Have fun and when you're ready get recording so we can see you play it in the forums!
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1:24 Pedal Note Arpeggio Study - Slowed BT (90bpm) Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here is the backing track at 90 bpm. Have fun and when you're ready get recording so we can see you play it in the forums!
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2:06 Pedal Note Arpeggio Study - Slowed BT (60bpm) Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here is the backing track at 60 bpm. Have fun and when you're ready get recording so we can see you play it in the forums!
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2:17 Minor 6th Pentatonics - Introduction Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hi there guitar lovers! This months tutorial is on Minor 6th pentatonic scales. What an earth are those you may ask? A minor 6th pentatonic is a hybrid pentatonic scale built from a Dorian or Melodic Minor scale and differs from our standard minor ...
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3:08 Minor 6th Pentatonics - Learning the Scale Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Obviously before we can use the scale we need to know how to play it in a few different positions. Below and on the video I show you how to play a C minor 6th pentatonic scale in a few different ways using 'box' type patterns and then using what I c...
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2:47 Minor 6th Pentatonics - Which to play? Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style So now you've learned the scale we need to know how to apply it. In other words, which minor 6th pentatonic to play over each chord in a progression. Well in actual fact, it's pretty simple. If you're chord is built from a major scale (as opposed to...
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4:59 Minor 6th Pentatonics - Minor Blues Application Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Okay - so now we'll apply these ideas to an actual chord progression. The progression in question is a minor blues in the key of C. You can see the chords below in the Tab with suggested voicings given. Feel free to substitute these for your own sha...
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1:50 Minor 6th Pentatonics - Minor Blues Demo Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Now I'm going to demonstrate the application of these minor 6th pentatonics and play each relevant scale over the C minor blues chord progression. Note the tab below with some suggested chord voicings for a minor blues and the applicable scales. I ...
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3:20 Minor 6th Pentatonics - Backing Track Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Have fun on the backing track for this Cm Blues. Check out the changes below.
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0:53 Scale Chord Voicings - Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Greetings Guitar slingers! In this tutorial we will look at the concept of Scale Chords. The main focus of this tutorial is not chord theory, scale theory, or any theory in general. Of course it always helps if you do have some theoretical knowledg...
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6:03 Major Voicings - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style To begin with, let’s review what a chord is. A chord is a group of notes derived from a given scale, put together in a cluster. For instance, let’s take the key of Emajor (as presented in the scale charts below). The tonic (I-degree) of E...
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4:30 Major Voicings - Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style OK, in this second part of major voicings, we’re looking at D major. Same idea; map out the scale across the fret board, and find a voicing you like. The difference here is that I have incorporated the open D-string throughout, and just used th...
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4:53 Minor Voicings - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Time for Minor! In this part we’re looking at the E minor scale. Also, I have chosen other voicings. I found a voicing I really liked, and ran with that. As you will hear this leads to more “fusionesque” tones. The concept is the sa...
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5:15 All About Harmonics - Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Greetings Guitar Slingers! Welcome to yet another (long) tutorial from yours truly. This time we will dive deep into the wonderful world of Harmonics! The theory, concepts and practice of harmonics in all its various incarnations are more often than...
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2:52 Natural Harmonics - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Welcome to part 1 of the theoretical part of natural harmonics. The first thing we need to cover and understand is the physics of the string – String Theory. The first thing we need to acknowledge is that when you play a note (be it an open str...
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6:10 Natural Harmonics - Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style In this part you will have to keep a close eye on the Table of Harmonics as well. As you can see, the 1/3 division is always the perfect 5th up from the ½ (or the perfect 4th down from the ¼ division). That is, a harmonic on the 7th fre...
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4:43 Natural Harmonics - Part 3 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Before going into this part, it would be wise to re-visit (or visit) my set-up tutorial where I discuss Intonation, and the equal temperament system of the guitar, as opposed to true temperament. You can find that part of the tutorial HERE. Then, yo...
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6:50 Natural Harmonics - Part 4 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style In this part, I just reinforce the fact that the string's length is not relevant, only its pitch. Regardless if the string is divided by fretting a note, or elongated say on a bass, the positions of the harmonics will ALWAYS stay the same, that is &f...
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7:41 Artificial/Pinch Harmonics - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style First off, we need to discuss the terms artificial and pinch harmonics. These are most often labeled as two different names for the same thing, that is, the harmonics produced using the thumb and pick in unison. In reality, Artificial Harmonics is an...
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6:41 Pinch Harmonics - Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style As I mentioned in the end of the last part, you can only produce the harmonics given to you by the divisions and nodes of the natural harmonics. You cannot produce something that is not there! I’ve seen instructional videos of guys playing an A...
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4:50 Pinch Harmonics - Part 3 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style This part re-emphasizes the difference between the natural over-tone series (with the harmonics) and the equal temperament (compromised) division of the fret board. For instance, you cannot produce a perfect major third interval, unless you use the 4...
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5:41 Tap Harmonics - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style As explained in the video, Tap Harmonics is just another variation on the same theme. Let's say you fret a D on the 5th fret of the A-string. The ½ division of this new string length would then be situated at the 17th fret (this is also pretty...
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4:52 Tap Harmonics - Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Finally! Time for some actual examples huh?! Now, even though notating tap harmonics isn't as bad as trying to notate correct pinch harmonics, there is still no software that does it well I’m afraid. I can notate the octave taps, but as for no...
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5:40 Harp Harmonics Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Harp Harmonics is a technique mostly used by classical guitarists, and is also often used with a clean tone, not a distorted one. What you do here is let the tip of your index finger touch the harmonic node while your right thumb strikes the string b...
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4:00 Flick Harmonics Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Okay then! Time for the cutting edge stuff! Before we go into this part, I must direct your attention to ALL the transcribed tabs for both the Flick and the Slap harmonic parts. As I have mentioned time and time again, there is currently no way in g...
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3:47 Slap Harmonics - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style On to the Slap/Spank/Left Hand Tap Harmonics! Same as with previous examples, the notated harmonics do not exactly match what is played. This is another technique to produce a similar result, and is my preferred weapon of choice for harmonics. This...
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4:40 Slap Harmonics - Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Okay, the next step is to add other whammy bar effects to the stew. First up is the regular “hitting the ol’ wang-bar”. As you release the whammy bar, you just hit it again, slightly depressing it in a rhythmical fashion. What note ...
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7:45 Capo Harmonics Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style "Capo Harmonics" is maybe not the most imaginative name, but it was the best I could come up with. I have no idea if this particular technique has a specific name. To start out with, you’ve all tried and heard the Vai/Satriani licks, where you ...
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1:46 Tuning in 4ths - Introduction Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Hi there guys and welcome to this tutorial on tuning in 4ths. Normally we tune the guitar in what we call standard tuning. In other words out strings are tuned to the following notes, E, A, D, G, B and E This system of tuning is great as it allows...
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4:03 Tuning in 4ths - In Practice Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Okay, so as an example we can take a Cmajor Triad. If we play this on the A, D and G strings we get a triad composed from the notes C, E and G played at the 3rd fret of the A string. If we take this shape up an octave and play it at the 10th fret of ...
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4:03 Tuning in 4ths - Working Out Shapes Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style It's actually pretty easy to work out shapes that will work in this tuning. The system is easy and relies on information you probably already know. Basically, any shapes that work on the bottom 4 strings will work anywhere on the guitar now. For exa...
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0:49 Guitar Setup 101 - Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Welcome guitar slingers, to this behemoth of a tutorial on guitar set-up! Proper guitar set-up is something that everybody know is needed, but few know how to do. It’s sort of like the mechanics of a car. We all know how to drive one, but if i...
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2:23 Tools Needed Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Having the proper tools will make your guitar-tech life a lot easier. Here’s a list of the most necessary tools. Of course you could get a professional guitar tech tool-kit if you do a lot of setup work, but regular tools like these will work j...
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7:11 String Change - Regular Tuners & Breaking In The Strings Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style New Strings A fresh set of strings is always a relief to play, as the feel fresh, slick and you don’t get caught on them whilst playing (sort of a like a satin-finished neck vs. a sticky gloss finish). Many player change strings on an almost d...
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3:14 String Change - Vintage Tuners Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style String change for vintage tuners The first part with fastening the string to the bridge is the same. Then follow this procedure (And check the video!): 1. Turn the tuning head, so that the slot in the peg head is in line with the fret board. In a v...
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2:21 String Change - Locking Tuners Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style String Change for locking tuners In this first part, you will be presented with the workings on the locking tuner, and how to un-fasten strings from them. There are mainly two ways of doing this: 1. Start to unwind the string from the tuner, as th...
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7:53 String Change - Locking Tuners Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Locking Tuners cont.: 1. Thread the string through the bridge like before. Nothing out of the ordinary here. 2. Thread the string through the hole in the locking tuning peg. Pull the string tight and hold it taut on the other side of the locking po...
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4:15 Cleaning The Fret Board Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Fret Board Maintenance When changing strings, I recommend you change them one at a time, unless you feel the need to clean your fret board, oil it in, or polish your frets. This will keep the neck in constant tension, and won’t de-stabilize it...
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4:43 Truss Rod Adjustment - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Truss Rod Adjustment What is a truss-rod you might ask? The truss-rod is a metal bar inside the guitar neck, that flexes in or (or sometimes both) directions. This rod in place for two reasons: 1. To stabilize the neck and stop it from warping. 2. T...
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7:39 Truss Rod Adjustment - Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Truss Rod Adjustment - cont: First of all we need to determine what our current relief is, and decide how or if we want to change that. The way to do this is either by using you eye-sight, or by measuring with a steel ruler or with so called “...
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5:31 String Height Adjustment Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style String height adjustment So, once we’ve set the relief to a point that fits our string gauge and playing preferences, it’s time to adjust the string height. String height is also a matter of preference. Some like it high, some like it lo...
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10:28 Intonation - Introduction & The Top Nut Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Reference Style: Any Style History and Background. Okay then, time for the big one, which will contain much information besides the practical intonation adjustments. Intonation is probably the most misunderstood part of guitar set-up, and a huge part of the overall sound and ...
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9:09 Intonation Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Ok, let’s say that your top nut is fine. Then let’s move on to intonating to rest of the neck. The common way of intonating an electric guitar is to tune the open harmonic to pitch, and then check to see if the fretted note at the 12th f...
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6:56 Nut Height Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Nut Height Nut height is yet another thing we need to cover. The nut height affects playability and sound to a great extent, more so than intonation (that is more the contact points of the strings, as described earlier). If the nut is too high, it w...
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7:19 Introduction To Tremolo Equipped Guitars Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Tremolo Equipped Guitars For the final chapter, we will look at setup for a typical tremolo guitar, a Floyd Rose-type guitar such as an Ibanez. Some of the things have already been covered, such as cleaning the fret board and such. In this first par...
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2:31 Tremolo String Change - Part 1 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style String change In this first part of the video, I will just discuss and show you how to remove the strings, and things to consider.
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8:51 Tremolo String Change - Part 2 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style String Change cont. On a guitar with a locking nut, it is not necessary to use the string fastening techniques we've discussed before. You will have a locking top nut that will secure the strings. There are 2 main ways of fastening the strings: 1. ...
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6:43 Checking The Tremolo Knife Edges and Posts Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Checking the knife edges As described in the video (and I do urge you to check this on the video), you can easily take off the tremolo to do maintenance, cleaning and such. If you have any tuning stability problems, you should always check the knife...
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5:31 Shimming The Neck Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Shimming the neck pocket Let’s say that you have lowered your bridge as far as you can into the cavity without bottoming out, and the action is still too high. Your truss-rod and relief has been adjusted, and all else is well. What then? Then ...
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3:23 The Mechanics Of A Tremolo Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style For this specific chapter, show and tell is by far easier than reading text. So for this chapter I urge you to just watch the video, and listen to what I have to say there.
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5:08 Locking the Top Nut, And Other Helpful Tips Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style When you are finally ready to lock down on the top nut, one thing to consider is that the force of the locking nut will pull the strings out of pitch as you tighten it. As I turn the screw clockwise to tighten it, the plate beneath it will pull on st...
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1:51 Melodic Minor Scales - Introduction Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hi Guys! Welcome to this tutorial on using Melodic Minor Scales. In this tutorial we'll be learning how to use melodic minor scales in conjunction with the major scales we already know in a harmonic context. By the end of these lessons you'll have...
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4:06 Melodic Minor Scales - Chord Construction Pt. I Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Just as when we build the seven chords from a major scale, we can build seven chords from our melodic minor scale. The first thing I want to say is don't worry if you've never studied chord construction at this stage. A separate tutorial will be com...
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3:03 Melodic Minor Scales - Chord Construction Pt. II Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Remember that I'm playing these chords in 4ths tuning but the TAB is in standard so my shapes look a little different. Chord V is built from the note G and is called, G7#5 or G seven sharp five. Two voicings are provided. Chord VI is built from ...
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4:41 Melodic Minor Scales - How do we use them? Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Okay! So now we have our 7 chords for the key of C melodic minor. But how do we use them? Well first it's important to understand the fundamental difference between major scale harmony and melodic minor scale harmony. Major scale harmony is said to...
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5:22 Melodic Minor Scales - Chords In Use Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we go! For the first set of examples I'll be using the key of Cmajor. This gives us the following chords and all their variations, C major, D minor, E Minor, F major, G major, A minor and B diminished. We're going to use an F melodic minor sc...
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2:40 Melodic Minor Scales - Example Improvisation 1 Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style In this improvisation, I'm soloing over just two chords. Remember, it's very common to combine a major scale with the melodic minor scale built from it's 4th degree. The first chord is Eb Major and the second is Abm6 which is equivalent to our Abm&#...
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4:43 Melodic Minor Scales - Example Improvisation 2 Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style This improvisation combines chords from a few different scales but is primarily in the key of Cm (the relative minor of Eb major). It features a descending bass line progression with some really nice harmony going on. We start with a Cm chord which ...
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4:20 Melodic Minor Scales - Example Improvisation 3 Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style This final example is a bit more up tempo to give you a bit more of a soloing challenge! Again we're in the key of Eb major but we have a new melodic minor source this time. We start with two bars of Eb major and then get two bars of Cm6 in bars 3 ...
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1:49 Visualizing the Fretboard - Introduction Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hi there guys! Welcome to this tutorial on how to Visualize the Fretboard. This tutorial is going to deal with learning major scales and their modes and how to visualize them on the guitar. I'm sure in your time as a guitarist you've come across th...
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2:16 Visualizing the Fretboard - Learning the Fingerings Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style We're going to be using 3 fingerings only to learn these scales all over the neck. Fingering number 1 uses our 1st, 2nd and 4th fingers with a gap of 1 fret between each. On the video and in the diagram I use the frets 3, 5 and 7 on the low E string...
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3:30 Visualizing the Fretboard - Major Scale Application Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Okay! Let's put these fingerings to work. We're going to be doing everything in the key of G major for this tutorial but these ideas will transpose into any key you wish. Our first scale is going to be the G Major Scale. In the next few videos we'l...
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2:10 Visualizing the Fretboard - Dorian Scale Application Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style So here's our first modal scale - dorian. Dorian is the second mode of the major scale and in the key of G starts on the note A. We'll start our scale on the 5th fret of the low E string. If you look at the diagram below you'll see that the scale st...
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1:26 Visualizing the Fretboard - Phrygian Scale Application Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Moving on to Phrygian we have a scale starting on the note B. This occurs on the 7th fret of the low E string giving us B Phrygian. Our phrygian scale starts on the second of our fingering no.2's. So we have one fingering no.2, followed by two finge...
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1:21 Visualizing the Fretboard - Lydian Scale Application Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style So, moving on we have Lydian. In the key of G we have C Lydian so our scale starts on the 8th fret of our low E string. We start the scale with the third of our fingering no. 1's. Because this is the third fingering no.1 it is followed by two finger...
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1:14 Visualizing the Fretboard - Mixolydian Scale Application Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Now we move onto the Mixolydian Scale. In the key of G our Mixolydian Scale starts on the note D at the 10th fret of the low E string. When we apply our fingerings sequence we can see that the scale starts on the first of our fingering no.1's. So, w...
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1:19 Visualizing the Fretboard - Aeolian Scale Application Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here is the idea applied to the Aeolian Scale. In the key of G our Aeolian scale is E Aeolian. This starts at the 12 fret on the low E string with the note A. Now, in terms of our sequence of fingerings, Aeolian starts on the 1st of our fingering no...
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1:17 Visualizing the Fretboard - Locrian Scale Application Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style So next we'll apply this idea to the Locrian scale. Be sure to look at the diagram below for guidance whilst watching the video. The locrian scale in the key of G starts on the note F# which is up at the 14th fret of our low E string. We start the ...
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1:31 Visualizing the Fretboard - Closing Comments Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style So what have we achieved here? Well, basically we've mapped out the entire key of G Major over the majority of the fretboard using just 3 different fingerings. This gives us a strategy for learning major scales and their modes in all 12 keys which i...
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Intervals and Building Chords - Introduction Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Hello Guitar players. I hope you're ready to learn! During this tutorial we will be taking a close look at a number of intervals available to us within the Major scale. We will also be using each of these intervals to create unique voicings of both ...
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1:13 Scale Degrees Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Scale Degrees. The term 'Degree' is used to identify a particular note in a scale. The point of using this terminology is that it can make life a whole lot easier when trying to identify chords and intervals in new keys. As outlined in the video. I...
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0:55 Intervals - Major Third Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The Major Third. The Major third can be found by combining the first and third degrees of a major scale. You can create this harmony over any note by simply counting up 3 degrees of a major scale. For example. In the video, I began on C and counte...
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1:29 Intervals - Perfect 5th ( maj triad ) Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Major Triad. The next interval we need to look at is our Perfect 5th. Otherwise represented as 'P5'. We can create this harmony by combining the first and 5th notes of any major scale. In this video we used C and G as an example. But for contrast, ...
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2:04 Intervals - Maj 7th Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The Major 7th. A Major 7 chord is built with the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th degrees of a major scale. At this point, I want to begin introducing chord formulas. The formula for our Major 7 chord is: 1 3 5 7. These numbers are referring to degrees of the...
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1:25 Intervals - Maj 2nd ( sus 2 ) Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The Major 2nd - Sus 2 chord. We are now up to the Major 2nd. When stacking intervals from the major scale, we don't always wind up with a Major chord. Here is the first example. A harmonic interval of a Major second comes from combining the 1st and...
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1:17 Intervals - Perfect 4th ( sus 4 ) Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The Perfect 4th. Suspended 4. This interval is found by adding the 1st and 4th degrees of a major scale. Used in context of a chord, the Sus4 chord is a great representation. Exactly like our sus2, the sus4 is a Major chord whose 3rd has been repl...
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1:47 Intervals - Maj 6 Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The Major 6. Used in a chord, this is one of my favorite sounds. We identify the Major 6 by playing the first and sixth degrees of the Major scale. The formula for this chord in full would appear like this: 1 3 (5) 6 (7) - typically you might fin...
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1:41 Intervals - Maj 9 Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The Major 9. The Major 9th interval comes from moving 9 scale degrees away from the root of the Major scale. As you will notice, the 9th scale degree is the same as the 2nd. When using this interval in a chord, it is important to pay attention to ...
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Intervals - Conclusion Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Over the past several lessons, we have taken a close look at a series of intervals available to us when harmonizing the Major scale. Every interval so far has been put in context to the Root of the scale. There is still a lot to cover though. In the...
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1:59 Anchored Fingers - Explanation Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hi there and welcome to this tutorial on anchored fingers. "Anchored fingers" refers to the idea that when we change between chords on the guitar, it's very common to keep some fingers in place on the fretboard while we move others. The fingers whic...
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2:16 Anchored Fingers - Exercise Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Okay - so here's the TAB/Notation for the exercise. Don't worry too much about the chord names. One thing at a time here, so learn the exercise slowly and accurately and then gradually speed it up until you can feel your finger independence and coord...
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4:37 Pedal Tone Legato - Intro & Exercise 1 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Welcome! In this tutorial, we're going to explore a technique I call "Pedal Tone Legato". This is a classically-influenced technique that combines different elements of legato and pedal tones. Before we learn the technique, let's make sure we under...
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3:28 Pedal Tone Legato - Exercise 2 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style We're now going to expand on the exercise we learned in Lesson 1. If you truly took the time to master the pattern in Lesson 1, then you'll definitely be ready for this exercise! In total, there are 8 measures in this sequence. The first 4 measures ...
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1:51 Pedal Tone Legato - Exercise 3 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Let's make it more difficult! We're going to do a similar pattern from the last lesson, except we'll be taking the difficulty level up a notch. We're now going to be moving higher up the fretboard and playing on the D, G, and B strings. The first 4 ...
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2:23 Pedal Tone Legato - Exercise 4 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In Lesson 4, we're going to learn a variation of the 6-note pattern that we've been playing in the previous lessons. Up until now, in our 6-note grouping, we've always pulled-off from nowhere on the 5th note in the grouping. We're going to keep doing...
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0:31 Major Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 1 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hey Dudes and Dudettes! Welcome to another installment of my 'exploiting shapes' series. The major scale will be the focus of this tutorial. Following the same direction as all of the previous lessons in this series, we will be taking the initial sh...
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0:29 Major Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 2 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the second position on the 6th and 5th strings: A, B, C, D, E, F# which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.
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0:26 Major Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 3 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the third position on the 6th and 5th strings: B, C, D, E, F#, G which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.
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0:28 Major Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 4 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the fourth position on the 6th and 5th strings: C, D, E, F#, G, A which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.
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0:29 Major Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 5 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the fifth position on the 6th and 5th strings: D, E, F#, G, A, B which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.
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0:29 Major Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 6 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the sixth position on the 6th and 5th strings: E, F#, G, A, B, C which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.
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0:32 Major Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 7 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the seventh position on the 6th and 5th strings: F#, G, A, B, C, D which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.
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0:50 Half Picking: Ionian Patterns Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style We're now going to apply the half picking technique to a couple descending patterns in B Major, or more specifically, the B Ionian scale. In example 1, we'll just descend each note of the scale in a 3-note-per-string pattern. The actual rhythmic not...
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0:26 Half Picking: Pentatonic Pattern Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here we'll be playing a descending and ascending pattern in the C# minor Pentatonic scale. Practice it slowly and make sure you don't forget to keep the notes equal in volume.
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0:43 Pentatonic Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Introduction Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hey there and thanks for joining me! I'd like to take the idea I discussed in my previous lesson regarding exploiting shapes and apply it to various scales. Let's start with the good old minor pentatonic scale. OK, we can apply the same principle t...
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0:29 Pentatonic Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 1 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first four notes of the first position of A minor pentatonic scale: A,C,D,E which gives us our first shape in the first position.
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0:34 Pentatonic Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 2 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first four notes of the second position of A minor pentatonic scale: C,D,E,G which gives us our second shape in the second position.
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0:35 Pentatonic Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 3 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first four notes of the third position of A minor pentatonic scale: D,E,G,A which gives us our third shape in the third position.
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0:33 Pentatonic Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 4 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first four notes of the fourth position of A minor pentatonic scale: E,G,A,C which gives us our fourth shape in the fourth position.
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0:30 Pentatonic Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Shape 5 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have the first four notes of the fifth position of A minor pentatonic scale: G,A,C,D which gives us our fifth shape in the fifth position.
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8:34 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Welcome guitar slingers! The goal of the Timing and Note Value Alteration tutorial is to expand your improvisational and musical abilities drastically. When you apply these concepts, I can guarantee you that you improvisational skills in all styles ...
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2:30 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 1a-b Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Very well then! Let's begin shall we? The first thing I will tell you is the no.1 commandment of timing practice! ALWAYS STOMP YOUR FOOT TO THE BEAT! This is extremely important to help in internalizing your feel for various note values. And NO, sa...
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2:51 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 2a-c Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style So, on we go. Now that we have some major note values down, we can start exploring the possibilities of note value alteration. The first concept we will dive headlong into is to take any idea, and alternate the note values with which we play it. That...
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2:36 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 2d-e Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So, on to example 2d then. In this example, I have mixed two note values within the same line; sixteen note triplets, and straight sixteen notes. You hear how much more random and musical this is starting to sound when compared to examples 2a-b? Y...
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3:09 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 3a-c Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Now it’s time for some real excitement people! Let’s look into the concept of Rhythmic Superimposition shall we? Do you remember me ranting about Scale Superimposition in my Pentatonic Finder tutorial? Well, this is sort of the same, bu...
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2:01 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 3d-e Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Did you make it through? Warmed up yet are we? Sweet, let’s continue. One thing that most people don’t think about is that this concept is every bit as useful when it comes to riffing and rhythm guitar playing! Let’s take a look at ...
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1:58 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 4 Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Crazy! Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Okay then, let's dive head first into example 4. What I've done here is I've taken the rhythmic figure from example 3a, and used it in improvisation. What you see below and in the video is me improvising over a drumbeat, and whatever I play, I hold t...
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2:11 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Part 5 Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Ok, time to break out that tapping finger! Before cutting into this one, look at this video and the next one as I explain my view of, and approach to tapping. This could help you immensely when attempting these things, and especially when later on im...
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3:28 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Part 5 Tapping Intro Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style In this part, I discuss my approach to tapping more in-depth, and exemplify the technique I use. What I tend to do, is to tap upwards instead of downwards for several reasons. I find it more comfortable, and I see tapping as being right hand hammer-o...
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1:16 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 5a-c Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style First off, we have example 5a, where I have taken an E min pentatonic tapping lick (actually not strictly E pentatonic, since I’m starting off with F#, which is the major 2nd). Follow the advice given in the video about how to play it, and then...
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4:25 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 5d Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Then we come on to example 5d. Here I’m using Ninetuplets (nine-what now?). This might look intimidating at first glance, but is actually not much harder to play than triplets, same feel almost, just faster. This is a note value that is not oft...
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2:32 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 5e-h Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Next up is example 5e. This is another pentatonic tapping idea that I personally use a lot. You can see these types of thing in a real musical context in my Super Continental song tutorial. Same idea here in example 5f, but using straight sixteen ...
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2:06 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 6a Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Here we are, the final section! What I will do here is similar to what I did in example 4. I will take the rhythm from one idea, and superimpose that over everything I improvise. So to begin with, here is example 6a, where you can see the same idea ...
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3:16 Timing and Note Value Alteration - Example 6b Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Crazy! Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style And we're at the finish line!! Time for the outro impro. Here I have improvised with tapping over a drum beat, but kept the rhythm from example 6a, regardless of what I play. Try it on, analyze it and make it your own. After you have nailed this one...
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1:48 Seventh Arpeggios: Exploiting Shapes - Introduction Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Thanks for joining me! What I'd like to do in this lesson is progress a little further with our arpeggio knowledge. Yes, we have already looked at seventh arpeggios however, as you will recall, the previous lesson was really concentrating on playin...
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0:33 Seventh Arpeggios: Exploiting Shapes - Major 7th Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have an A Major 7th Arpeggio with the formula: 1 3 5 7
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0:34 Seventh Arpeggios: Exploiting Shapes - Minor 7th Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have an A minor 7th arpeggio with the formula: 1 b3 5 b7
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0:32 Seventh Arpeggios: Exploiting Shapes - Dominant 7 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have an A Dominant 7th Arpeggio with the formula: 1 3 5 b7
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0:35 Seventh Arpeggios: Exploiting Shapes - Minor7b5 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have an A minor7b5 Arpeggio with the formula: 1 b3 b5 b7
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0:36 Seventh Arpeggios: Exploiting Shapes - Diminshed7th Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have an A diminished7th Arpeggio with the formula: 1 b3 b5 bb7
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2:01 Time Signatures: Introduction Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Hello and welcome! In this tutorial we're going to take a very in-depth look at time signatures. This is a rather large tutorial, but don't let that overwhelm you. I'd encourage you to go through it slowly so you can digest all the information. Firs...
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0:52 Time Signatures: 4/4 - Overview Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style With time signatures, we will always see 2 numbers in the form of a fraction. (Yes, music has math too!) So we'll see a number on top, and a number on the bottom. The top number represents how many of a certain note, and the bottom number represents ...
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0:34 Time Signatures: 3/4 - Overview Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style We now continue exploring the quarter note time signatures with 3/4. With the top number being "3" and the bottom number being "4", we can conclude that the 3/4 time signature represents three quarter notes in a measure. You can count the beats of a...
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0:38 Time Signatures: 5/4 - Overview Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The last quarter note time signature we're going to look at is 5/4. With the top number being "5" and the bottom number being "4", we can conclude that the 5/4 time signature represents five quarter notes in a measure. You can count the beats of a 5...
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0:46 Time Signatures: 6/8 - Overview Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style We're now going to look at our first eighth note time signature, 6/8. With the top number being "6" and the bottom number being "8", we can conclude that the 6/8 time signature represents six eighth notes in a measure. You can count the beats of a 6...
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0:51 Time Signatures: 7/8 - Overview Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style We're now going to look at the 7/8 time signature. With the top number being "7" and the bottom number being "8", we can conclude that the 7/8 time signature represents seven eighth notes in a measure. You can count the beats of a 7/8 time signature...
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0:49 Time Signatures: 9/8 - Overview Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The last eighth note time signature we're going to look at is 9/8. With the top number being "9" and the bottom number being "8", we can conclude that the 9/8 time signature represents nine eighth notes in a measure. You can count the beats of a 9/8...
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0:50 Time Signatures: 15/16 - Overview Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style We're now going to look at our first sixteenth note time signature, 15/16. With the top number being "15" and the bottom number being "16", we can conclude that the 15/16 time signature represents fifteen sixteenth notes in a measure. You can count ...
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0:50 Time Signatures: 19/16 - Overview Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The last sixteenth note time signature we'll be looking at is 19/16. With the top number being "19" and the bottom number being "16", we can conclude that the 19/16 time signature represents nineteen sixteenth notes in a measure. You can count the b...
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3:29 How to Practice like a Pro Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style In this lesson, I'm going to go over a few tips to help you practice efficiently. The goal when you practice is to make the most progress within the shortest time possible. These tips will help you do just that! Tip #1: Have a dedicated practice are...
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1:19 Pinky Training - Full Lesson Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Hey there! I put this lesson in the "Beginners" section because I think all beginners should practice with their pinky. That's one of the elements guitarists forget the most - they always forget about the pinky. A question I get asked a lot is: "Why...
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0:55 Pinky Training - Backing Track Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Here is the backing track, pretty much inspired by classical music. The instruments here are strings ensemble, flute, and clarinet. As it is pretty short, I looped the backing track 3 times so you don't have to click the play button all the time. ;) ...
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0:40 Seventh Arpeggios - Introduction Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Hey all, thanks for joining me! In today's lesson we are going to be focusing on Seventh Arpeggios. What we are going to do is take 5 different 7th chord types: 1) Major7th 2) Minor7th 3) Dominant7th 4) Minor7b5 5) Diminished7th and we are goi...
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0:52 Seventh Arpeggios - Major7th Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have an A Major 7th Arpeggio with the formula: 1 3 5 7
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0:52 Seventh Arpeggios - Minor7th Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have an A minor 7th arpeggio with the formula: 1 b3 5 b7
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0:49 Seventh Arpeggios - Dominant7th Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have an A Dominant 7th Arpeggio with the formula: 1 3 5 b7
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0:54 Seventh Arpeggios - Minor7b5 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have an A minor7b5 Arpeggio with the formula: 1 b3 b5 b7
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0:52 Seventh Arpeggios - Diminished7th Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Here we have an A diminished7th Arpeggio with the formula: 1 b3 b5 bb7
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2:38 Seventh Arpeggios - Backing track Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Ok, here's the backing track for you to practice the different shapes. We have 8 bars for each 7th chord in the same order as the lesson: 1) Major7th 2) Minor7th 3) Dominant7th 4) Minor7b5 5) Diminished7th Best of Luck!
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0:53 Digital Delay - Intro & 1-string Melody Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Effects Style: Any Style In this tutorial, we're going to explore the very cool world of digital delay. Digital delay can be great for subtle, natural sounding delay, but it can also be great for creating a prominent doubling track to your guitar. When you watch the video a...
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1:16 Digital Delay - 2-string Melody Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Effects Style: Any Style Now that we have the basic understanding of the delay, let's get a little more creative with it. In this lesson, we're going to play on two strings and we'll use a more involved melody. Be sure to keep the notes clean while using staccato!
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0:56 Digital Delay - Major and Minor Arpeggios Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Effects Style: Any Style In this lesson, we're going to apply the digital delay to arpeggios. We will be playing the following arpeggios in order: D Major, E minor, B minor, A Major. Since we're playing within a span of four different strings, be extra careful to avoid unwan...
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2:12 Pentatonic Scales - Introduction Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Welcome to the Pentatonic Scale Tutorial! The pentatonic scale is an extremely important scale and should be learned and respected by every guitarist. The pentatonic is a foundational scale, as many other scales are drawn and created from it. The t...
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1:21 Pentatonic Scales - Position 1 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style With each scale position, we are going to play the pattern with eighth notes, then triplets, then sixteenth notes. The fingering you use is optional. Since these scales are 2-notes-per-string, I have a personal preference of just using two fingers: m...
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1:06 Pentatonic Scales - Position 2 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Now, let's examine the second position. Position 2 is the position that primarily represents the Major key. So we can apply the same process as we did with Position 1 when we found the minor key on the fretboard. For an example, let's say I wanted ...
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0:32 Pentatonic Scales - Position 3 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Out of all five positions, the 3rd position is the only one that spans across 5 frets, rather than 4. Use whatever fingering you find most comfortable and effective. Then when you have it down, head on over to learn Position 4. Position 3
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0:31 Pentatonic Scales - Position 4 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style The 4th position is my personal favorite. I'm not exactly sure why, but I think it's just because I enjoy the playing opportunities that the patterns provide. Once you have it down, head on over to the next lesson where we'll learn our last position...
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0:31 Pentatonic Scales - Position 5 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Alright, here is our last position. The patterns in this one are pretty simple as there aren't any drastic shape changes. Now that you have the 5 positions down, let's work on blending them together in the next lesson. Position 5
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2:04 Pentatonic Scales - Putting the Pieces Together Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Great job! If you've made it this far, that means you know the 5 positions of the pentatonic scale. Now that you know the positions individually, it's time to start learning how to put them together. If you only practice and memorize the positions b...
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2:00 Building Speed and Stamina - Introduction Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Welcome to the "Building Speed and Stamina" Tutorial! Throughout this tutorial, we are going to be strengthening our ability to control speed changes while playing. It's critical that we are able to transition smoothly from one speed to another with ...
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2:26 What are Chords? Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Chords! A chord is a series of notes played together. There are hundreds even thousands of chords available to play on the guitar. Once you begin to understand the essentials of building chords, and understanding what defines them. You will be surp...
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3:12 The Major Chord Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Building Major Chords is quite simple, and with this video I hope to show just that. We begin by picking the chord we want to build. In this case it will be a CMaj chord. Play the Major scale which begins on the same root note as the Chord your aft...
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2:58 The Minor Chord Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style So now that we have built a Major triad and Major7th chord. Lets make a minor chord! The process of building minor chords is exactly the same, bar one thing. If the chord is a 'minor triad' (meaning it has 3 notes) we must make sure that the 3rd is...
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0:35 Neoclassical Etude - Performance Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Welcome to my neoclassical lesson! If you have read my profile page than you probably know that I'm a huge fan of classical music and everything that goes with orchestra so I very often write music with orchestra. If you like what you see and hear h...
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3:31 Neoclassical Etude - Part 1 Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Alright! Here we are at the first part of this piece! The whole exercise is played 100% alternate picking so you won't have to worry about some fancy picking patterns. Instead we'll concentrate on left hand fingering and the tricky areas. So the fir...
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2:52 Neoclassical Etude - Part 2 Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Here comes part 2! To me the most difficult part to play because we have a lot of movement going on here and also some string skipping. When you first start practicing it you might want to overdo the lifting of fingers to feel each note for itself as...
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1:14 Neoclassical Etude - Part 3 Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style The last part is mostly based on movement between 2 strings so a lot of control and muting is required to play this cleanly. Besides that, nothing spectacular is going on here so just learn the notes and than practice this slowly. Make sure each note...
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0:34 Neoclassical Etude - Backing Track Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Now that you have learned the whole piece you can have fun with the backing track! Enjoy it and rock on! Any questions about this lesson are welcome at our Infinite Guitar forum so feel free to post questions and comments!
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1:28 AP Phrasing - Video Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hey there guys! Welcome to my little tutorial on Alternate Picking Phrasing. You can also call it "Melodic Sequencing" as we'll use sequences to build a melodic solo and practice a bit of phrasing using sequences. Phrasing in playing is just as impo...
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0:54 AP Phrasing - Backing Track Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Ready to have fun with backing track? This one is definitely fun! It's inspired by cartoons in general - no particular cartoon, but I bet you heard a similar piece of music in some cartoon movies when you were a kid. It's at 160BPM so your picking s...
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2:03 Rock Chords - The Power Chord Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Welcome Aboard! Right now we will take a look at 'Power Chords' At the beginning of this video you will see a short demonstration of Power Chords in action. More often than not you will hear these chords used in Metal/Rock and Pop music. They are ...
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2:46 Downward Slides - Introduction Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this tutorial, we're going to explore a cool sliding technique that can add some spice to your playing. This "downward slide" basically involves your finger quickly sliding from a higher point on a string to the desired note. The slide in itself i...
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3:05 Harp Harmonics - Introduction Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Welcome to the Harp Harmonics Tutorial! Here we will lean how to play harp harmonics as well as how to incorporate them into musical contexts. Harp harmonics are played when a finger on your picking hand gently touches a string 12 frets above the no...
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2:57 Unwanted String Noise Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style A few questions about dampening strings have been raised in the forums lately. Hopefully this lesson will guide some of you toward solving this frustration. Basically I have outlined two methods for keeping open strings under control. Getting a goo...
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0:45 Simple Chord Progressions - Introduction Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hey all and thanks for joining me! In this tutorial we will be taking a look at how to play some simple chord progressions with two example progressions to get our teeth into. To begin with I guess we need to know exactly what chord progressions ar...
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2:28 Simple Chord Progressions - Essential Techniques Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Ok lets take a closer look at the role of the left hand. It is essential at this point that you understand the importance of economising the movement in the left hand. By doing so it will give you the facility to play whatever you wish with the mini...
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2:08 Chord Progressions in Practice - Part 1 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Now that you have the techniques needed to play chord progressions lets kick of with our first example which will highlight the use of Anchor finger technique. Finger 3 of the left hand will be the common thread between our 3 chords here, which are:...
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1:26 Chord Progressions in Practice - Part 2 Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style OK it's time to learn our second chord progression example! This time we will be concentrating on a progression which contains the Guide finger technique. The chords we will be playing are as follows: Dmajor - Emajor - Gmajor - Amajor. The guide ...
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1:31 Finger Tapping - Introduction Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Welcome to the Finger Tapping Tutorial! This is a fairly large tutorial that spans from beginning to advanced levels. So no matter what skill level you're at, I'd encourage you to go through the whole thing from start to finish. There's something for...
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0:26 Finger Tapping - Using Both Hands Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Most of the time, you will be using both hands while finger tapping. When playing tapping passages, you'll usually either be hammering on from your fret-hand to your tapping-hand, or pulling off from your tapping-hand to your fret-hand. In this exer...
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0:39 Finger Tapping - Using All 4 Fret-hand Fingers Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now that you have a grasp on the basic execution of finger tapping, we are going to start working on the coordination of our fret-hand fingers while we tap. There are four exercises in this lesson. The 1st exercise utilizes the index and middle fing...
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1:23 Finger Tapping - Pulling Off to Open Strings Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Using open strings while tapping is an excellent way to add some cool texture to your playing. There are two ways to make an open string sound. An open string either sounds after being picked, or after a finger pulls off from a fretted note to the o...
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0:40 Finger Tapping - Tapping with Open Strings Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Okay. Now that we practiced how to avoid unwanted open-string noise, we can work on tapping with an open string. In this tapping exercise, you are going to be tapping with your index finger, then pulling off to your fret-hand index finger, then pull...
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0:36 Finger Tapping - Another Open String Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here is one more example of how we can incorporate an open string with tapping. In this exercise, we will be playing the open D string for every other note.
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Free Time Signatures - How They Work Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style 4/4? 7/8? 3/4? 6/8? 19/16? 9/8? What do all these numbers mean!? Ever wonder what those fraction looking things are at the beginning of every piece of music? And what do those numbers mean anyway? What are they for? Well, have no fear my guitar-pl...
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2:25 Picking For Beginners - Standard Picking Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this lesson, we're going to explore the basic fundamentals of standard picking. As I mention in the video, standard picking is the most basic form of guitar picking. So if you're just starting out on the guitar, you're in the right place, because ...
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2:34 Picking For Beginners - Alternate Picking Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Let's take a look at alternate picking. Alternate picking is definitely one of the most popular forms of guitar picking. The reason it's so popular is because it's extremely practical to use in many musical situations. Alternate picking involves our...
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3:51 Barre Chords Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Barre chords, what exactly are they? Barre chords are chords which enable us to take all of the open chords that we have learned, open chords being the basic chords which incorporate the use of open strings, and play them in different areas of the f...
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2:41 Fret-hand Coordination - Intro & Exercise 1 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style In this tutorial, we're going to practice some patterns that utilize all 4 of the fret-hand fingers. Just as with any other instrument, playing guitar requires solid coordination. If you think about it, if you had absolutely perfect coordination, you...
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1:58 Fret-hand Coordination - Exercise 2 Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style As I mention in the video, this is one of my favorite coordination exercises. It sounds pretty weird and boring, but it's not as easy as it sounds! In this exercise, we're going to be using the same G Major scale notes as we used in the last lesson,...
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3:04 Altered 9th Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Welcome. In my next few lessons I want to lay out some simple structures that I found valuable when altered chords became more a part of my vocabulary. Although, this is marked as intermediate. Hopefully some of you beginners will be able to catch ...
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3:34 Altered 5th & 13th Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hello again! In this part of the tutorial we are going to have a look at some simple ways to find our altered 5th and 13th voicing's. Early in the video I emphasized the importance of the Perfect 5th interval. For me, early on when I was learning a...
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How to Read Guitar Tablature Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Every guitarist needs to know how to read tablature (a.k.a. "tab"). Tablature is the most widely used method of reading music for guitar, and is often much easier for people to read than standard notation. So in this lesson, we're going to learn the ...
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Building Speed And Accuracy - "Bringing it up and down" Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now, something that has helped me as far as building speed is first picking a set picking pattern, like this one: This one is just a basic 16th note chromatic run up the neck starting on the 9th fret and following the pattern all the way from the l...
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1:57 Building Speed And Accuracy - Cycling Patterns Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Another way to build speed is to combine both of the previous lessons and put them through what are called "Cycling Patterns" That is, playing certain licks over and over while increasing the tempo slowly, building your speed and technique in the pro...
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Expanding your Chord Knowledge Pt.1: Major and Minor Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hello. Today, I bring you a way to help you build your chord vocabulary by learning how to build different chords. Since there are a multitude of different chords out there, I will break this into parts. In order to fully benefit from this tutorial...
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4:39 Expanding your Chord Knowledge Pt 2: Dim, Aug, Sus Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Hello, I now bring you part 2 of this tutorial. To start, we will be working with Augmented, Diminished, Sus4, and Sus2 chords. For simplistic reasons, we will be building these (once again) in the key of C major but the chord formulas (root, major/...
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Expanding your Chord Knowledge Pt.3: 7th Chords (1) Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style I now bring you part 3, in which we will be going over 7th chords. We’ll just be dealing with the most common forms of the 7th chord for this lesson and as the original had done before, we’ll be going over these with the root on the A st...
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Expanding your Chord Knowledge Pt.3: 7th Chords (2) Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Now onto the Minor 7th chord. For this 7th chord (Chord #19-21), we lower the 7th as well as the 3rd. So with this new information, we have the makeup of a minor 7th chord which is: (C-Eb-G-Bb). Intervalically, this chord can be seen as: (Root, Min...
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Expanding your Chord Knowledge Pt.4: 9th Chords (1) Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Welcome to Part 4 of this tutorial, where we will be going over all the different forms of the 9th Chord. But before we begin, we must understand something called the "2-4-6 Rule". Simply put, all this means is that the 2nd, 4th, and 6th degrees of ...
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Expanding your Chord Knowledge Pt.4: 9th Chords (2) Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style The next form of the 9th form we’ll be looking at is the Minor 9th form which is built by taking a Minor 7th chord form (C-Eb-G-Bb), and adding on the 9th to it to give us a Minor 9th chord, which goes like: (C-Eb-G-Bb-D) Intervalically, this ...
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Expanding your Chord Knowledge Pt.5: 11th chords Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Advanced Topic: Chords Style: Any Style The next group of chords that we will be looking at are 11th chords. All an 11th chord is, is just another extension of the major chord. A full 11th chord consists of a root, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th, but if we are going to be playing these on ...
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Expanding your Chord Knowledge Pt.6: 6th Chords Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style In this lesson, we will be focusing on the different types of 6th chords that can be formed, so let's get started. A 6th chord is built basically the same way as a 7th chord, except that instead of a major 7th, we put a major 6th in its place so wha...
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Expanding your Chord Knowledge Pt.7: 13th Chords Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Advanced Topic: Chords Style: Any Style In the final installment of this tutorial, we are going to be looking at the different versions of the 13th chord, so fasten your seat belts. A full 13th chord has 7 notes in it: (1-3-5-b7-9-11-13). Intervalically, this full chord can be seen as: (R...
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2:11 Legato for Beginners - Introduction Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Welcome to the "Legato for Beginners" tutorial. By the time you go through these lessons, you should have a solid understanding of what legato is, and how we can apply it to guitar. So, what is legato? Legato is a characteristic in music where there...
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2:23 Legato for Beginners - Hammer Ons Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style The first legato technique we're going to look at are hammer ons. The name "hammer ons" is somewhat self-explanatory. This technique is going to involve our fingers hammering on the fretboard in order to produce notes. In order to play a hammer on, ...
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2:11 Legato for Beginners - Pull Offs Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now, let's focus on pull offs. With pull offs, our fingers are going to pull off the strings to produce notes. In order to play a pull off, you'll first pick a note that one of your fret-hand fingers is holding down. Then once that note is played, t...
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1:36 Legato for Beginners - Slides Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Lastly, let's have a look at slides. Slides are pretty much the epitome of legato. The reason for that is slides are the absolute smoothest possible transition you can have from one note to another. In order to play a slide, pick any note, then whil...
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1:06 Legato for Beginners - Legato Lick Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Okay, it's time to put these techniques to practical use! In this lesson, we'll learn a short riff that includes all 3 legato techniques we've just learned in this tutorial: hammer ons, pull offs, and slides. In this riff, you'll just be using your ...
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2:51 Using Cubase - General Overview Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Welcome to our first lesson in Cubase. Cubase covers a huge area of recording and editing your audio and MIDI tracks, so I will break it into small lessons and explain it part by part not to make it a boring 12 hour lesson. Also, this way you can mor...
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3:06 Using Cubase - Latency Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Latency is the main problem music producers encounter when recording audio tracks and working with VST instruments. It's an unwanted delay we should get rid of straight away, before we start working with music. In case you missed the link in our pre...
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3:28 Using Cubase - MIDI Overview Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Greetings! In this chapter we'll go through some general stuff concerning MIDI tracks and you can find some more detailed info at this link MIDI@Wikipedia, and also you can read a bit about this GM Map@Wikipedia. So, in simple language, MIDI is ele...
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3:53 Using Cubase - Working with MIDI Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style Ok, now when you know some basic stuff about MIDI tracks, let's actually work with them! So to get started you need to create an Empty Project (like in our very first lesson of this tutorial). After that simply follow the lesson and you should have ...
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2:24 Learning the Notes of the Strings Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Every guitarist needs to know the notes and numbers of the guitar strings. If you're a beginning guitarist, this is one of the very first things you'll want to tackle. As I mention in the video, we instructors always refer to the strings by their not...
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3:30 Maintaining Good Posture While Playing Guitar Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Maintaining good posture while playing guitar is vital. Not only does it help your guitar playing be more effective, but it also helps keep you healthy. Here are a few tips you should keep in mind... 1. When sitting down, be sure not to lean your l...
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3:44 What Is a Pick and How Do I Use It? Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Other than our fingers, picks are the main tool that guitarists use to play the guitar strings. There are a lot of different kinds of picks, and you should experiment with different picks to find out what kind is best for you. Be sure to watch the v...
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4:13 Non-Guitar Stretches for your Guitar Playing Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style In addition to this lesson, be sure to check out an article I wrote on Guitarist Tendonitis. Stretching and warming up is critical for any guitarist. Playing guitar can be very strenuous on your fingers, wrists, and forearms, so you need to make sur...
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4:25 Guitar Anatomy 101 - Learning the Parts of a Guitar Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Every guitarist needs to know the anatomy of the guitar so they can properly reference the various parts. Be sure to study the video and image below to memorize everything. Also, it's worth noting that some guitar parts have more than one associated...
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1:55 Chord Progressions - Introduction Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Many times, people put together chord progressions based off of how they sound together. Some people rely on intuition. Others base their progressions off of songs that they already know. The latter is what I tend to gravitate towards a lot of the...
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1:15 Chord Progressions - Root Movement Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The main propulsion for harmonic movement in your chord progression will usually occur between the bass notes which are either a perfect 4th or perfect 5th apart. Here is a version of a I, IV, V again showing how the bass notes move in 4ths and 5ths....
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1:01 Chord Progressions - Common Tone Substitution Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Hello and welcome to part 3 of this exciting tutorial on Chord Progressions, where we will be talking about Common Tone Substitution. *cue dramatic intro music* Any harmonized scale contains notes that are shared within other chords found in this sc...
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2:04 Chord Progressions - Harmonic Rhythm Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style "...and now back to 'Chord Progressions' where we last left them..." Putting chords together isn't really enough. You also need some good harmonic rhythm, which is how long a chord will last within your progression Here's an example of poor harmon...
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1:40 Chord Progressions - Secondary Dominants Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Another technique involves inserting dominant chords before other chords to create a stronger sense of movement to the next chord. The root of a secondary dominant is going to be a perfect 5th away from the chord that the secondary dominant is going...
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1:13 Chord Progressions - Diminished Chords Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Now, in the previous lesson, we learned that both V chords and vii chords can function as Dominant chords, but when using diminished chords, these can be put in the place of a V chord and that diminished chord can resolve up a half step to the root o...
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2:00 Chord Progressions - Tri-Tone Substitution Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Now, one thing we have to understand is what exactly the tri-tone substitution is. It's basically where we substitute a dominant chord that is a tri-tone away (#4/b5) from the root of the original dominant chord. An example of this would be substit...
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1:07 Chord Progressions - Changing Chord Quality Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Theory Style: Any Style This is the final installment of this tutorial, and this one is going to be a very simple way of enhancing your chord progressions, which is changing the quality of any chord, whenever you like. Experiment with making a Major chord minor or dominant...
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5:36 Reading Music For Guitar - Rhythmic Ability Part 1 Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The hardest thing for a guitar player to do is to read standard notation. For a lot of guitar players, this is something they would rather not do because it's "too hard." But if you wish to grow from just a guitar player into a musician, music read...
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2:28 Reading Music For Guitar - Rhythmic Ability Part 2 Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style In this lesson, we will be continuing our look at the different notes that you are going to encounter, as well as incorporate these new notes in with the ones you previously learned. The next note division we are going to look at is the Eighth Note,...
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1:30 Reading Music For Guitar - Rhythmic Ability Part 3 Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style We are now going to dive into learning dotted notes and dotted rests, as well as tied notes and slurs. The thing we have to remember about dotted notes and dotted rests is that whenever you see one, that note is held out half a beat longer than usua...
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0:32 Reading Music For Guitar - Rhythmic Ability Part 4 Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style We are now going to go through a few exercises to give you more practice with all of the things we have learned so far. The way this is going to go, is that I am going to start these off simple, and the farther you go through these examples, the har...
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2:46 Reading Music For Guitar - Quarter Note Time Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style We are now going to dive into the world of understanding Time Signatures and how they are made up. This is also a continuation of your ability to recognize and count different rhythmic variations. We touched on the 4/4 time signature in the first l...
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1:46 Reading Music For Guitar - Eighth Note Time Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Now, we are going to dive into the realm of Eighth Note Time Signatures, but not without a little understanding of how this is made up. We know that within a time signature, the top note indicates how many notes are in a measure, and the bottom indi...
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Reading Music For Guitar - The Open Position Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style We are now going to start getting into actually reading music on the guitar, so grab your axe, cause it's time to blast off into the world of melodic reading! The easiest way that I can see of starting your journey is with the open position and more...
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Reading Music For Guitar - Open Position Exercises Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style This lesson is going to contain a few exercises that you can go through for practice with the open string notes that we learned in the previous lesson. These start off simple and with only the 3 string groups. The first example will use the High E, ...
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0:56 Reading Music For Guitar - Low E String Notes Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Ok, peeps. Here we are going to go over the notes of the open position of the guitar, starting one string at a time, and we are going to begin with the notes on the low E string, which are the Open E, F and G notes. Shown below are where these notes...
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0:36 Reading Music For Guitar - Open A String Notes Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Ok, we are now going to tackle the notes on the open A string. As before, shown is the fretboard and where the notes are on it. Make sure that you have these notes memorized before you go onto the example. Once you have them memorized, you can pla...
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0:28 Reading Music For Guitar - Open D String Notes Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Now, we are going to tackle the notes on the open D string. As before, make sure you have these notes properly memorized before moving on to the example. Once you do, you can go to the example below. This one not only combines the notes we have le...
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0:35 Reading Music For Guitar - Open G String Notes Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style We are now going to move onto the notes on the open G string. One thing to note is that the B note on this string is the same as the open B string, so now you have 2 choices when it comes to playing that B note. As before, memorize these notes befo...
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0:35 Reading Music For Guitar - Open B String Notes Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Now we are going to add on notes from the open B string. As before, make sure that you have these notes memorized before tackling the example below. For the below example, we are going to add in all the notes we have learned so far along with the 2...
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0:44 Reading Music For Guitar - High E String Notes Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Hooray! If you have made it this far, you are on the final leg on your journey through the open position. This one is going to be comprised of the notes on the high E string. As before, make sure that you get these memorized before moving on to th...
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Pentatonic Finder - Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Welcome guitar slingers! The goal of the ”Pentatonic Finder” tutorial is for you to be able to improvise freely across any key changes, anywhere on the neck, and learn how to conceptually visualize scales and keys, and using scale superi...
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Pentatonic Finder - Part 1, A to D Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style So, to start off with, we need a chord progression to play over that changes keys. For arguments sake let’s say the progression is A7, D9, C9, G7. Remember, we want to treat this chord change as 4 separate keys, not all part of the same key of ...
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Pentatonic Finder - Part 2, D to C Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Next, we will look at the next change in the progression, which will be from D9 to C9. We were in the 4th box of the Dmin Blues Scale, so which box must we utilize to keep ourselves within the 4-9 fret area? Right you are, the 5th box in C it is! ...
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Pentatonic Finder - Part 3, C to G Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Well, you know the drill by now. Time for the change between C and G. Here’s the correct box in G, which will be the 2nd. And here’s C superimposed by G. Turn the page for the final change!
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Pentatonic Finder - Part 4, G to A Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style And finally, here’s the change between G7 and A7. You already know that the 1st box of A is what goes, so without further ado, here’s G superimposed by A Now turn that page!
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Pentatonic Finder - Part 5, Then what? Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style Now that you have that down, it’s time to take it to the next level. You should now start practicing this method, choosing new areas of the neck to cover. Say you choose to cover the area of 10-15th fret. If we are in the same progression, A, D...
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2:35 Metal Riffing with 16th Note Triplets - Introduction Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Hey everyone! Welcome to the "Metal Riffing with 16th Note Triplets" tutorial. Today we're going to focus on a group of rhythmic notes called 16th Note Triplets, also known as sextuplets. First off, let's go over what 16th note triplets actually are...
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Unlocking the Fretboard - Introduction Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Greetings Guitar Slingers! The goal of the ”Unlocking the Fretboard” tutorial is for you to be able to break free from the stereotypical ”box”-playing and be able to have our playing and ideas flow all over the neck. Before ...
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1:08 Unlocking the Fretboard - Part 1, The key vertical exercises Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So how do we get from A to B? How do we go from strict ”box” thinking, to literary thinking “outside the box”? Well as the great Miles Davis said “First learn the rules, the break them”. What does this mean then?...
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0:56 Unlocking the Fretboard - Part 2,The key horizontal exercises Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style In this exercise we will start to expand our thinking, and start to see the scales horizontally, and begin to truly break out of the box. In the first one we do the same 4-note, 2-string idea as in the vertical exercises, but this time we move acros...
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2:01 Unlocking the Fretboard - Part 3, The key diagonal exercises Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Well guitar slingers! Now we’re starting to go places! In these exercises we will start connecting the boxes diagonally, which is a great way to open up the fretboard by moving more naturally across the neck. Once you got these down, you will ...
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1:45 Unlocking the Fretboard - Part 4, The key holistic exercise Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style In this exercise will we take a short sequence or ”lick” if you may in the A blues scale and pay that in varied fingerings all over the neck. The scale parts we will use are… the whole thing: The line we will use is a five note ...
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1:11 Unlocking the Fretboard - Part 5, Putting it all together Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style So, without further ado, here's the example promised in part 4. As with previous things, do not just practice this as a lick, but try to think about how the lines pass through the positions of the boxes, and also how other scales are utilized through...
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Economy of Motion - Back to Basics Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hello and welcome to my economy of motion tutorial! The main focus of this tutorial is aimed at players of all levels and styles. We will be covering a great deal of musical ground here so it is essential that you try to absorb the information contai...
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Economy of Motion - Left Hand Efficiency Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style LEFT HAND EFFICIENCY During the past 10 years as a guitar teacher, I have experienced a wide ranging degree of capability amongst students. Some were naturally gifted players while others had to work much harder to achieve their goals. Despit...
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1:50 What is Legato? Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Hey there IG guitar players, Let's start working on a very useful technique called legato. After you watch the video explanation, let's once more review the important parts of legato: 1. bring the wrist forward to obtain the optimal position for yo...
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0:28 Playing Legato - Exercise 1 Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In the previous lesson we worked on moving our fingers totally separately from each other. In this one will work on getting your fingers to work in linear sequence. The difference is that in this exercise the loudness of the next note depends on how ...
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0:35 Playing Legato - Exercise 2 Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Ok, it's now time to move from single string exercises and have a bigger bite. :) 2 strings exercises are more difficult as you now have to watch carefully what you mute and what you pick so here it is step by step: 1. as we need some "starting pow...
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0:40 Playing Legato - Exercise 3 Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style OK, remember the first legato lesson? Well, now we'll use that same exercise and play it on 2 strings which will make it way more difficult. First of all, I want to turn your attention to tabs: in the tab you can only see each sequence repeated twic...
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0:39 Playing Legato - Exercise 4 Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Here we go - 3 strings legato exercise. As you can see, we involve a few pickstrokes here and there. These are unavoidable as we move between strings a lot and we only use picks when we are playing ascending runs as it is hard to hammer-on the next ...
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3:54 Bending And Vibrato - Vibrato Essentials Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style In this lesson, we will be talking about the most important technique that you can learn as a guitar player, which is having good vibrato. I feel that you can have all the chops in the world, but if you don't have good vibrato, it is going to sound ...
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2:19 16th Note Displacement - The Basics Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Welcome to the 16th Note Displacement Tutorial! What are 16th notes? 16th notes add up to 4 counts in one beat. So you have a total of 16 counts in a measure that has 4 beats. Full 16th note measure: "1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a" Pronounced: ...
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2:20 16th Note Displacement - Mixing It Up Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Now, let's mix it up a little bit. In the last lesson, we learned how to omit specific 16th note counts consistently throughout a single measure. Now we're going to omit different 16th note counts throughout a single measure. Make sure you count the ...
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1:30 Major Chord Voicings Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style Welcome! For this lesson I just wanted to introduce some new voicings to your vocabulary. All the chords listed here are G Major chords. Most are either basic triads or Maj7th chords. There are a few inversions and one extended chord with a non-diat...
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2:03 Palm Muting Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Palm muting is a common device used in all styles of music. Those chugging distorted metal riffs that I'm sure you have all heard at one stage, sound the way they do partly because of the palm muting technique. In funk bands you will often hear one ...
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2:29 Basic Chord Forms Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style How well do you know your Major scale? Can you play it all over the fretboard? In every key? Do you know where all the voicings of each particular major chord are? Do you know their inversions? Substitutions? If the answer to all these questions is...
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1:43 CAGED Scale System G Major Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Now for the scales. As you can see below we have a G major scale broken up into 5 Patterns. Each pattern has a corresponding voice of the G chord, one of each of the CAGED forms. The logic in these forms will become evident after you spend some tim...
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1:52 CAGED Scale System D Major Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style D Major Scale - CAGED Scale System OK guys. Here are your five patterns for the D Major scale. Remember to stay conscious of which chord form your playing over when you practice the pattern. Be it the C A G E or D form. This will help you visualize ...
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2:45 CAGED Scale System Bb Major Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style Bb Major - CAGED Scale System Here are your five patterns for the Bb Major scale. Remember to stay conscious of which chord form your playing over when you practice the pattern. Be it the C A G E or D form. This will help you visualize the different...
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2:26 Warm-up Exercises: The Left Hand Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style These exercises are designed for when you first pick up your guitar either before practicing or before a gig. These are not for speed at all, but to get your hands warmed up and to eliminate any tension beforehand. I feel it's absolutely essential t...
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1:23 Warm-up Exercises: The Right Hand Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Now that we have gone over some left hand exercises, we are now going to tackle the right hand. These right hand exercises can be used as both a warm-up and also as a speed building exercise as well. The first exercise is a basic chromatic run up t...
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Triad Arpeggios Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Here is a triad arpeggio exercise that spans 13 frets and uses all 6 strings. It is an excellent workout for both hands and it will help you visualize more clearly how a chord can be spread over the fretboard. Written are the triads F Major (F-A-C), ...
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2:17 Linear Scales - Part 1 Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style This lesson will help you in your quest in breaking out of those standard "Box" shapes and be able to use your entire fretboard. One way is to use what are called "Linear Scales" which are using scales on one string up and down the neck in a "Linear"...
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1:56 Linear Scales - Part 2 Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style Now that you have the basic concept under your fingertips, we will now apply this idea to your box patterns and connect them together in a way that utilizes the entire fretboard. Make sure when going through these examples that you use mostly alterna...
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0:35 A-minor 6-strings NE->SW Diagonal Exercise Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style You probably wonder what NE->SW means? Well, it's North East to South West - may sound funny but it's the best way to describe it! I would like to mention one thing you will sure meet in some of my lessons - and that is DRAWING. I like to call it...
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0:37 C# Minor 6-strings SE->NW Diagonal Exercise Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Alright, there we have it! If you saw the previous lesson of this tutorial you will see this one is totally opposite in the direction we move. My first encounter with this kind of approach was when I saw Rusty Cooley and his Chops From Hell instructi...
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0:40 E-Minor 3 string Exercise Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style Ready to move on? Cool! Usually people can shred on thin strings but when they hit the low and thick strings they get into trouble as these strings behave a bit different and require different strength applied to function properly. That's why this e...
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2:43 Tuning - General Overview Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style As you can imagine, tuning is extremely important with the guitar and any other instrument. Every guitarist needs to know how to do it, and how to do it effectively and quickly. There are different ways you can tune your guitar, using many reference...
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4:14 Tuning - How to Tune Your Guitar Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style (Tuning Chart below) In the video, I show you how to tune your guitar using just your ear. Basically, you can tune your whole guitar using just your Low E string as a starting reference point. So that means that we'd need to make sure the Low E str...
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1:42 Tuning - Drop D Tuning Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style Drop D tuning is when you make your Low E string go down a whole step to a D note. This tuning is a very popular tuning for 6-string guitarists who want to get a lower end with their guitar. I personally love this tuning and use it often in my songwr...
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Intervals Pt.1 (Intro - Major and Perfect Intervals) Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Before any of you start to delve into chords, scales, or arpeggios, you must first understand the basis of what and how intervals are formed. In a nutshell, an interval is the distance between any two notes. There are only two types of intervals: ha...
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2:25 Intervals Pt.2 (Minor, Diminished and Augmented) Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style Hello and welcome to part 2 of this lesson on Intervals. The next 3 intervals we are going to talk about are the Minor, Diminished and Augmented intervals. These 3 intervals are made by altering the major and perfect intervals by either raising or ...
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3:04 Intervals Pt.3 (Intervals on the Fretboard, Rule of 9) Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style The notes on a guitar fretboard are not easy to find because every note may have as many as 5 different places where you could play it. On a piano, it's easier to see where these notes are because they are all laid out neatly for you, but on a guitar...
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1:48 Intervals Pt.4 (Determining Interval Quality) Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style In this lesson, we will be going over how to determine the quality of any interval if you should ever encounter one that you need to figure out. Here are some steps you can follow to help determine the type of interval you are looking for: Step #1-...
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