Tag: Guitar Tips
Introduction No survey of the Marshall stack’s five-decade reign would be complete without honouring the players who have made them howl like fallen angels. Here, we present 11 essential licks in the style of 11 ...
Ladies! Gentlemen! Cyborgs of indeterminate sex! It’s time for a brand new installment of “This is Why You Suck at Guitar.” It’s been far too long since Uncle Ben here dropped a TiWYSaG lesson on ...
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 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 ...
Were you ever discouraged in math class when you were deducted points for not adequately showing all of your work? It seemed like a trivial thing. The answer to 1 + 1 is 2. The ...
It has become more and more popular over the years to create unplugged acoustic versions of electric songs. Sometimes these acoustic versions you hear sound great, and other times they can kind of miss the ...
When you start out playing blues guitar one of the most challenging things is to make the blues scale actually sound bluesy. It’s one of those scales that require an extra effort in order to ...
I am Greg Studley, and this is Lesson 6 of Improvising With Knowledge on Ultimate Guitar. These lessons are designed to get you accustomed to yet another pentatonic scale shape, which can be used as ...
I’ll keep this as short as possible. The motivation for this video is the fact that most lessons out there require you to perform sweeps in downward/upward motions. That means, you start either by picking ...
Standard tuning: E A D G B E Level: Intermediate I’ve always loved this song. I just think the chorus is great. It’s the kind of chorus you sing really loudly whilst quite intoxicated and ...
Practicing can be a lot less tedious when you play music instead of many exercises in a row. If you are having trouble with a certain technique, or want to explore what sort of musical ...
We will create a chord chart for each key in the major scale. This will show you each chord in a key and when to use sharps and when to use flats when you are ...
Hey guys! Here is a simple worksheet that will help guide you through the modes of C Major. I enjoy this because it opens up a whole lot of exercises that I will cover later! ...
