Month: April 2015
I was always pretty into rock and heavy metal as a whippersnapper. As I grew older though I found myself getting very used to the sound of pentatonics, diatonics and arpeggios working “in key.” It ...
In this lesson we discuss how to phrase melody lines over progressions that will leave the key centre to include the use of multiple modes. Modes are often thought of as being used within a ...
In this lesson we’ll look at how to use numbers and a grid to expand your musical vocabulary and invent new musical ideas you perhaps wouldn’t normally come up with! Essentially we’ll look at breaking ...
In this video lesson I’ll demonstrate how to start thinking more like a drummer/percussionist. The idea is to practice playing along with songs etc. Just tapping out rhythms on your knees, desk, steering wheel – ...
The aim of this lesson is to take licks, scales, bass lines etc that you already know and turn them into something new and cool by simply adding 5ths or octaves. If you don’t know ...
Hello once again fellow shredders, and welcome to Operation Shred Guitar II: Soloing on a Dead End Road! My name is Jake Popowski, and in this lesson, you will learn how to play my solo ...
In this lesson I want to introduce a type of chords that I use a lot which are a versatile and practical way to play chords with 2nd intervals in them which is often difficult ...
Jimi Hendrix is arguably one of the most influential players ever to wield an axe. His mind, his touch, his technique, were a magical combination of talent, prowess, dexterity, and explosive creativity – it was ...
Setting goals on guitar We’ve all been there: you listen to Steve Vai‘s or Satriani‘s or some other guitar god’s latest album and you think it’s so cool that you go “This is it! I’m ...
Difficulty Level: Advanced Tuning: E A D G B E (Standard Tuning) When I first purchased the “Countdown to Extinction” album I was a pretty die hard fan of Metallica and thought that guitar solos ...
Example for This Lesson Look at the pattern of coloured circles on this next diagram. The solid red circle, numbered zero, is placed at an arbitrary fret. The pattern shows it uses pitches that are ...
Handheld recorders are one of the most important and hottest products in the audio world! You can use them just about anywhere to record anything. With hours of recording time on affordable media, remarkably high ...
Jeff Beck is without argument one of the world’s most famous guitar players. Both his compositions and his guitar playing style are quite diverse. He plays a unique blend of rock and jazz alongside of ...
I used to really suck getting better at guitar. Actually, that’s a pretty blatant understatement. I was a terrible self-teacher and progress was agonizingly slow. Back in high school, I lived and breathed rock music, so naturally ...
