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Chicken Grease Funk
(April 04, 08)
Guitar Lessons ordered by date
- Chicken Grease Funk
(April 04, 08) - Funk guitar E minor groove
(March 30, 08) - Learn funk guitar
(March 28, 08) - Jazz Blues Guitar Lick in Bb7
(March 21, 08) - Diminished Scale Guitar Lick
(March 07, 08) - Hendrix Red House licks
(February 21, 08) - Fast Country Picking Lick
(December 29, 07) - How to play barre chords
(December 15, 07) - Fusion Blues Lick
(December 11, 07) - Blues Guitar Shuffle
(November 27, 07) - Big Legged Woman - Freddy King
(October 04, 07) - Gary Moore Blues Lick
(August 22, 07) - add9 chords lesson
(August 10, 07) - How to play octaves
(July 17, 07) - B7 Jazz / Blues Lick
(July 14, 07) - Beginning Funk Guitar Lesson
(June 12, 07) - Inversions of Dominant 7 chords
(June 03, 07) - Danny Gatton Chicken Picking Lick
(May 28, 07) - Learn how to use triads for improvising
(May 21, 07) - Rockabilly Blues Guitar Lick
(May 01, 07) - Raking Shuffle Blues
(April 23, 07) - Jimi Hendrix Bending Lick
(April 13, 07) - How to string a guitar
(March 13, 07) - Guitar Vibrato Technique
(February 13, 07) - How to hold the guitar pick
(February 02, 07) - Guitar Sweep Riff in E Major
(January 12, 07) - Sweep picking over 6 strings
(January 09, 07) - Chromatic Blues Lick
(December 25, 06) - Charlie Parker Chromatic Lick
(December 20, 06) - Boogie/Rock'n Roll rhythm style
(November 03, 06) - Scuttle Buttin SRV
(October 09, 06) - Hybrid picking technique
(September 08, 06) - Whole-tone scale over dominant 7
(September 02, 06) - Major 7 arpeggios over dominant chords
(September 01, 06) - Major Triads - Mixolydian mode
(August 31, 06) - Back in Black - AC/DC
(August 26, 06) - Mixolydian scale mode
(August 05, 06) - Sweet Home Alabama
(August 04, 06) - Sweep picking examples
(July 30, 06) - Rhythm, funky chording
(July 12, 06) - Rock/Blues Rhythm ver.1
(July 09, 06) - Rock/Blues Boogie rhythm ver.2
(July 09, 06) - Diminished Jazz Guitar Lick
(July 07, 06) - Pentatonic riff in E
(July 05, 06) - String Skipping
(June 30, 06) - Johnny B. Goode
(June 16, 06) - Pride and Joy - SRV
(May 28, 06) - Love Struck Baby - SRV
(May 27, 06) - Chromatic Country moves
(May 27, 06) - Movable Chords
(May 01, 06) - Dorian Scale
(April 09, 06) - Country Bending Lick in E
(March 25, 06) - Pentatonic blues boxes
(March 20, 06) - Pentatonic licks in blues
(March 19, 06) - 12 Bar Acoustic Blues
(March 19, 06) - A fast Pentatonic sweeping lick
(March 19, 06) - Mary Had A Little Lamb SRV
(March 19, 06) - The Blues Scale
(March 19, 06) - Blues turnarounds
(March 19, 06) - Bluesy jazz chords
(March 19, 06) - Country Bends
(March 19, 06) - Chicken Picking
(March 19, 06) - Cold Shot (SRV)
(March 19, 06) - Superstitious
(March 19, 06) - Pentatonic Lick in E (2)
(March 19, 06) - Brown Eyed Girl
(March 18, 06)
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Testimonials
Well, I just really think this is a perfect instructional DVD for a guitarist who's got about 2-3 months of playing time building basic chord forms and has a really basic foundation, but can't quite "play" yet. I've been learning seriously for just about 3 months, and I'm able to play a few songs, and a few simple solos, but having this DVD to teach me how to play great songs like Cold Shot, Back in Black, Sweet Home Alabama and the classic Johnny Be Goode. Being able to play actual, recognizable songs is the reason I picked up the guitar in the first place, and this DVD is just great. Thanks a lot.
- Bret R.
I got the DVD. Hey it's fantastic! I love your camera angles on the strumming stuff. It cleared up a lot of confusion for me with that.
- John R.
The video is superb. Really superb.
- Gary N.
Free Guitar Video Lessons - I am starting to put together a section with guitar video lessons and guitar riffs ideas on this site. I'm doing this out of my passion for guitar playing, hoping that the few things I know about guitar playing could be useful to someone out there.
The lessons are available as video clips in Flash, Windows Media (WMV) and Quicktime format. You can download all the guitar videos in Quicktime (mov) format so that you don't have to watch them on my website every time (unless you want to!). The video clips are recorded with a SONY DCR TRV-33 Digital Camcorder.
I am not providing everything in tab or notational format - I am more of a "play by ear" kind of guy. There are not many tabs for the videos - but there are some, and I am working on more tabs.
My hope is that you will learn something from these guitar lessons and guitar licks or riffs. If it seems very difficult to play, try spending more time listening - sometimes all you need is to really listen to the same thing over and over, as well as play it over and over, and the pieces will fall into place.
General Advice For Playing Guitar Better
Most important advice - listen over and over again to good players, including horn and piano players. Variety of influences is a good thing. Start transcribing music - use software to slow down the song if you have to (Windows Media Player - SHIFT+CTRL+S) and find the notes and the way the musical phrase is played in time. SHIFT+CTRL+N for playing in normal speed with Windows Media Player.
Blues and Improvisation. There are endless ways of playing the blues. Probably the most important thing to consider is phrasing, or they way the notes are expressed over time. For example, go listen to Albert King. He was one of the best blues guitar players there ever was. He plays really tasteful phrases, and even though you hear similar ideas more than once, they are still expressed in different ways. This is the essence of great blues guitar.
Further to this, try to copy a simple lick from your favourite blues player. Learn the notes, and learn the chord progression behind the lick. The next step is to try and play this lick with different phrasing. Try using the lick in a totally different song; try make it sound like you! You can try starting the lick at different time than in the original context - for example in the third bar instead of the first, and so on. Another thing to practice is to play this lick in different keys. You should at least be able to play your favourite licks in the keys of A, C, D, E, G, but why stop there - all twelve keys should be the goal.
Memorizing or internalizing is another important concept. I try to learn phrases and licks and then make them into my own thing, and I play these things over and over until I dont' have to think about how to play them. These phrases become part of your vocabulary on the guitar. Play these newly learned ideas every day until you can play them without thinking.
HEY! Have fun playing guitar!
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