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Video Guitar Lessons: Most Recent
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Chords
Style: Classical |
Guitar Lesson Text: Welcome!
In today's lesson we will be studying the classical guitar solo written by Spanish composer/guitarist Francisco T... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Chords
Style: Classical |
Guitar Lesson Text: OK, let's take a look at the opening bars.
The first thing that you should be aware of throughout the piece is to balance ... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Chords
Style: Classical |
Guitar Lesson Text: For section 2, we have changed key from E major to E minor. I feel that this parallel key change lends itself to emotive comp... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Technique
Style: Blues |
Guitar Lesson Text: Holiday Greetings guitar slingers!
In this final tutorial of 2008, I will leave you with a blues tune that focuses on comb... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Technique
Style: Blues |
Guitar Lesson Text: Okay then, time for the first breakdown. This part covers the first 6 bars of the 12-bar blues. Once you've got the first 2 b... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Technique
Style: Blues |
Guitar Lesson Text: The second breakdown covers bars 7-12. Here we have a slightly different outro-line that is a bit faster, and uses less hybri... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Cool Riffs
Style: Holiday |
Guitar Lesson Text: Merry Christmas everyone!
I wrote this little piece after I heard an excellent song by Trans-siberian Orchestra. They did ... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Cool Riffs
Style: Holiday |
Guitar Lesson Text: The first thing to be aware of with this piece is the 3/4 time signature. Except for the very last part of the song, everythi... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Cool Riffs
Style: Holiday |
Guitar Lesson Text: Here we have the second part of the main "Carol of the Bells" melody.
In bars 1 through 4, we have a different melody than... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Cool Riffs
Style: Holiday |
Guitar Lesson Text: Now comes the section where we begin playing the "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" theme.
This section begins at a very soft v... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Cool Riffs
Style: Holiday |
Guitar Lesson Text: To close out the piece, we'll be playing a rockin' breakdown that will be sure to wreak havoc on the North Pole. So get ready... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: Hi there guys! Welcome to this tutorial on visualizing pentatonic scales for guitar.
This tutorial aims to help you break... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Chords
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: The first thing we have to be able to do in order to use the visualization technique described in this tutorial is understand... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: So, how do these sus4 chords relate to our minor pentatonic scale?
Well, every minor pentatonic scale contains a couple of... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: One of the best uses I've found for this technique is for comping. In other words, for playing chord based accompaniment or s... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: One of the great things about this visualization technique is that it allows us to create lines in addition to new comping id... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: When you apply these ideas to playing chords, you simply need to follow a few simple rules and everything should fall into pl... |
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Level: Intermediate
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: Let's take this comping idea and apply it to a static groove. I know one problem many people have when playing over a static ... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: Here's our final comping example using pentatonic scales as our harmonic source.
The chord sequence below is from a well k... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: Okay, so onto line playing! All of these examples are TABBED for 4ths tuning but the standard tuned versions are at the end o... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: Line No. 2 is a descending 16th note triplet phrase utilizing stretched sus4 arpeggios built from our Am pentatonic again.
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: Here is line no. 3, built exclusively from the Am Pentatonic scale.
Again, I've used sus4 shapes and their inversions to ... |
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Level: Crazy!
Focus: Scales
Style: Fusion |
Guitar Lesson Text: Here is our final line built from an Am pentatonic scale. This example makes the most blatant use of it as far as the sus4 sh... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Technique
Style: Metal |
Guitar Lesson Text: Holiday greetings and salutations guitar slingers!
X-mas is drawing near, and what says happy holidays better than a sweep... |
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Level: Advanced
Focus: Technique
Style: Metal |
Guitar Lesson Text: Alright then!
In this first exercise, we will look at an exercise designed to help you focus on right/left hand synchroniz... |
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