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Share David Taub over at NextLevelGuitar.com put together an awesome lesson on how to take that tried and true pentatonic scale and spice it up a bit. We all want our scales to sound musical as we tear it up playing killer guitar solos. This lesson will give them a little extra musical mojo. In this lesson [...]
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GuitarTricks has to be one of my favorite guitar instructional sites especially when it comes to learning songs. They have lessons for over 300 of some of the most popular songs in a wide range of genres.
Some of the bands that are in their song library include
Check out the full listing of song lessons they have to offer and watch previews here- GuitarTricks Songs Page.
They also have a real solid program for learning the fundamentals of guitar. Their Core Learning System® is a step by step program for beginner to intermediate students. It is 1500 lessons, all interlinked step by step that start from “how do I hold a pick” and end with advanced intermediate lead guitar. It has to be one of the most comprehensive guitar lesson systems I have seen.
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David Taub over at NextLevelGuitar.com put together an awesome lesson on how to take that tried and true pentatonic scale and spice it up a bit. We all want our scales to sound musical as we tear it up playing killer guitar solos. This lesson will give them a little extra musical mojo.
In this lesson David will teach you how to add and enhance certain
notes that will really add new musical dimension to your soloing and improvising.
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Spicing Up the Pentatonic
Be sure to check out NextLevelGuitar for more great lessons. Also be sure to check out my full review on some of the highlights and things you will find there.
The good folks over at Guitar Zoom have put together an awesome 3 part guitar mini course that will help you become a better guitar player. Some of the things in the course include-
I came across a preview video that JamPlay posted teaching how to play Blackened from the 1989 Metallica album …And Justice for All.
The following is a basic blues riff in the key of “A”. This riff is made up of two note chords commonly called open power chords. The chord names above the staff are there as a reference while you play along.
This riff should sound very familiar, it’s used more than any other blues progression. A lot of rock and blues classics are played entirely with this one riff repeated over and over.
Blues is played with a shuffle feel, also called a triplet or swing feel. This example was written in eighth notes and the second eighth note of each beat should lag a little bit. This is refered to as a triplet feel because the beat is actually divided by thirds, counted as if there were threee eighth notes per beat instead of two. The first part of the beat gets 2/3 of a beat, the second part gets 1/3.
This 12-bar blues riff is also an example of a I – IV – V (one-four-five) chord progression. The roman numerals refer to the steps of the scale, relative to what key the music is in. So, the A chord is the I chord. The D chord is the IV chord because in the key of A, D is the forth step in the scale. Finally, the V chord is the E chord, because E is the fifth step of the scale in the key of A.
The I – IV – V chord progression is the most common progression used in rock or blues. It’s the foundation that all rock and blues was built on and has evolved from. There are many variations, but songs such as “Johnny B. Goode,” “You Really Got Me,” and “Rock and Roll,” are all bases on the I – IV – V.
Have fun with the bassic blues progression and learn to play it in other keys as well.
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I first mentioned the new cobalt strings from Ernie Ball a couple of months back in my Best of NAMM 2012 post. Later it came out that Slash, Steve Morse and John Petrucci are now using them as well.
Curiosity got the best of me and I was excited to try them. I finally got my hands on a several sets of the Cobalt Super Slinky 9-42s. After paying roughly double for the Cobalts then the regular Ernie Ball strings, I was a bit skeptical of the hype that I had read but what the hell. I thought I would give them a shot. Read more
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Successful private guitar instructor, Youtube sensation and all around nice guy, Marty Schwartz shows you how to master the blues
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