Blues-Rock Lick

Video February 16, 2015May 29, 2015 LTGuitarist Music Tutorials awesome, blues, guitar, lick, playing, rock, tutorial

Another blues-rock lick for your guitar repertoire. Below is the tab for this lick, divided into sections. You’ll notice that Fig 1 is repeated in bar 3. I’m playing this at 100bpm, so I’d recommend playing slower than this at first, (it’s fine to play at any speed to begin with, no matter how slow, … Continue reading Blues-Rock Lick

Pre-Bending

Video August 14, 2014May 30, 2015 LTGuitarist Music Tutorials advanced, awesome, bending, guitar, lead, pre-bending, solo, technique

Lesson for the advanced string-bend technique or pre-bending, (having a note bent before you play it). This can help you emulate a whammy bar, or develop a Mid or Far Eastern flavour to your playing. Example 1 Example 2

Over Bending

Video August 14, 2014May 29, 2015 LTGuitarist Music Tutorials awesome, bend, blues, guitar, jazz, metal, over bending, overbending, rock, solo, technique

Tutorial for Over Bending, and advanced string bend technique. Here's Doug Aldrich doing his thing:

Circle Of Fifths Part 2: Uses

Video August 5, 2014May 30, 2015 LTGuitarist Music Tutorials awesome, circle of 5ths, circle of fifths, guitar, music, scale, theory

2nd video about the Circle Of Fifths, this time focusing on it’s uses within songwriting. For reference, I've included the diagram below again. Part 1 can be found here.

Relative Maj & Min Scales

Video November 25, 2013May 30, 2015 LTGuitarist Music Tutorials awesome, major, minor, scales, together

Video lesson focusing on how to use both Major and Minor scales simultaneously.

Awesome Slide-Legato Lick #1

September 21, 2013May 26, 2015 LTGuitarist Music Tutorials awesome, guitar, kickass, legato, lick, slide

This is an awesome, visually impressive and cool sounding, lick which relies on solid slide and legato techniques. Legato phrases, as you should know, rely on fretting hand techniques such as slide, hammer-ons and pull-offs. In this lick we are using a slide technique in-between picking a note’s 5th on the adjacent string. Sound complicated, … Continue reading Awesome Slide-Legato Lick #1

Technique: String Bending

September 13, 2012May 30, 2015 LTGuitarist Music Tutorials awesome, doug aldrich, guitar, guitar lessons, jimi hendrix, joe satriani, lead, music, slash, solo, steve vai, string bending

String bending is awesome. I won’t bore you, (rather, myself), with the physics of string bending, but the gist of it is when you make a guitar string tighter the pitch becomes higher, just like when you tune a guitar, or add a tighten-up a new string. This can be useful when you want to reach … Continue reading Technique: String Bending

Memorizing The Fretboard

August 14, 2012May 30, 2015 LTGuitarist Music Tutorials awesome, blues, flamenco, fretboard, guitar, guitar-based theory, jazz, memorizing, memory, metal, music, music theory, notes, rock, theory

(I've stolen an image from http://www.CortGuitars.com for this. So there.) These are some tips and tricks to help you memorize the fretboard. Memorizing the fretboard will help you to instinctively know where to go in order to voice different chords. The first step is to remember the order of the open strings, which is as follows, (from … Continue reading Memorizing The Fretboard

Hammer-Claw Finger-Picking Technique

August 7, 2012May 30, 2015 LTGuitarist Music Tutorials awesome, blues, claw, country, finger, finger-picking, guitar, hammer, hammer-claw, jazz, music, picking, rock, technique

Hammer-claw finger-picking is a technique used in country, jazz and sometimes blues music where the guitarist plays with their fingers rather than a pick. In this style your thumb is the “hammer” and your fingers are the “claw”. Your “hammer” is intended to play the bass strings, (E, A and sometimes D), and replicate the job … Continue reading Hammer-Claw Finger-Picking Technique

Example Song #3 – 7th Barre Chords in Gm

July 31, 2012May 30, 2015 LTGuitarist Music Tutorials awesome, blues, cambridge, guitar, jazz, learn, learn to play, learn to play awesome guitar, rock, strings, teach yourself, teacher, tutor

This track is intended as an exercise for students who have recently been introduced to 7 Barre Chords. Once they are familiar with the shapes this track is a good way of learning how they’re used in practice. You’re playing mainly 7 barre chords. The Basic 7 Barre Chords lesson will be a useful reference … Continue reading Example Song #3 – 7th Barre Chords in Gm