Month: June 2015
Music is not just a hobby for some, for some it is passion, an inevitable force that drives them to be different from others. One of these passion driven people is Hisatake Shibuya, who opened ...
The basic chord progression in modal music is the famous ii-V-I progression. This turnaround is common in jazz music but also in other popular music styles that are based on modal theory. It determines the ...
Hello and welcome to this lesson which I’ve purposely written for beginners. This time I’m going to address a topic that is relevant for each guitarist out there who wishes to play along to his ...
Hello everybody! Here is a great lesson to use to play scales diagonally as opposed to playing vertically all the time. Be sure you review my past lesson on 3 Notes per String as this will ...
Level: Beginner/Intermediate Tuning: E A D G B E (Standard) Who didn’t love crusin’ around in GTA San Andreas listening to this song and whomping people with baseball bats and ramming pedestrians with a motor ...
Hello and welcome to this lesson which I’ve purposely written for beginners. This time I’m going to address a topic that is relevant for each guitarist out there who wishes to play along to his ...
I’m no guitar hero but I’m very into improvising and soloing with my guitar. I have some advices for soloing strategies. Actually they are basic but I think they work out really good. Here’s my ...
This weeks lesson takes a look into the world of arpeggios on the fingerboard, (an area often neglected by guitar players). Arpeggio patterns on the guitar neck may be neglected due to the fact that ...
It takes the right instruments and the right practice to make a novice into an expert, for a beginner who is learning to play guitar, Laney offers you just the thing! An ideal twin Channel ...
With the last blog, we wrote extensively about Stagg Products, explaining about how good Stagg Products are for you. All of the products made by Stagg is made by particular accuracy, making them the best ...
G–D–C–D, is the base for a large variety of songs people enjoy playing. You may encounter scenarios where you don’t know the song you are about to jam with someone but, after studying this section, ...
This weeks lesson takes a look at performing substitutions with diatonic pentatonic scale ideas. This is an easy idea to work on that can produce a fresh new sound into any solo or melody line. ...
If I’m being honest with myself, I’d say that I’ve gone through several long periods where guitar was a secondary – even tertiary – part of my life. Sure, ever since I started playing at ...
Stagg products are made for precision, established in 1995; Stagg is dedicated to bring the high quality musical instruments and accessories to the entire musician catering to all types, at the most affordable price. Right ...
I was messing around with a pentatonic and started messing around with some taps. I found that if I tapped 4 frets up from the most common box shape of the minor pentatonic that all ...
Florence and the Machine’s brand new album ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’ debuted at the Billboard 200 at number 1 position, knocking off the reigning two weel champion A$AP Rocky. This is the first ...
Hey, guys! In my last article, we discussed how to handle a type of criticism that is not in any way constructive, offered not with the intent of improving your music, but purely to tear ...
What Are the Blues? The twelve bar blues is a very common chord progression found in a lot of songs. The progression, whilst less popular now, is very common in early blues music around the ...
This time I will cover a few of the basic ideas involved with entering into the world of playing rock lead guitar and how to solo over rock music in general. It presupposes that viewers ...
I truly believe that in order to become a better guitar player, one should listen and absorb as much inspiration from guitarists that one personally admires. These men are often kind enough to share with ...
When I think Hungarian minor I don’t just think about salami. I think about bands like Cacophony and Revocation with their enjoyment of exotic modes and abrasive intervals. Before we get stuck into the lick ...
Hey, guys! So, some of you UG-ers might know that my recent series of lessons, Musician Psychology, deals primarily with motivation and ways to boost your creativity to levels that are typically only experienced by professional ...
KRK Systems are famous for their precision, design and performance. The company has always focused on the product’s design and have tried to optimize their product’s performance no matter what. Their ideology depicts this easily, ...
Hey guys! This lesson is for those of you who want to learn how slap technique. If you already know slap, this might help you a bit too. Hope you enjoy! What will I need ...
In this tune I’ll show the melody and the solo. There are two video lessons to the tune. In the first one I’m playing the tune and demonstrating the melody. And the second video is ...
Hey guys! So the legato is getting a bit more difficult in this lesson. We will focus on essential pull-off patterns that will strengthen that technique. Things to focus on: Play with a metronome Start ...
This week we will work on playing through three intermediate level jazz chord workout exercises. The exercises begin with the common seventh chord qualities, then move on to using chord extensions and finally progress to ...
M-Audio, previously known as Midiman was founded & established by Tim Ryan in 1988. The company initially betrothed in designing software & hardware solutions designed to address the challenges of connecting MIDI, audio and computers ...
Level: Intermediate Tuning: E A D G B E (Standard) “Bark at the Moon“… Pretty win but also overlooked solo. I always loved Zakk and Randy… And poor Jake E. Lee is so easy to ...
I’ll be referring to this reference sheet and A minor throughout, but the same concepts can be applied to any scale. You’ll see 7 patterns and an A minor scale diagram. Those 7 patterns are ...
Sus4 chords are very handy structures to use as a variation from third based structures like triads and 7th chords. In this lesson I want to show how you can apply or find them when ...
