In this video I will show you some right hand guitar muting techniques. This is used in many rock and hard rock styles of music. I hope you enjoy it and please leave a comment below to let me know what you thought of this video!
In this lessons you will learn guitar power chords. These chords are used in countless songs. Once you get this power chords lesson down you will be able to play many, many tunes. This lesson will show you the E and A power guitar chords. Then we move on to the C and G guitar chords. Finally, you will learn how you can use these shapes to play other chords on the guitar and give you a few chord transitions to practice.
In this video you will learn some guitar chord transitions. Here we start with a transition with the G chord then go between the G and Emin chords. Next we learn a C to Amin chord transition. Then a common D chord guitar transition. Finally you will learn a G chord transition which is used in many rock and country songs.
This is a guitar strumming lessons video. Here we will start with an E chord then progress to an Amin then switch between the E and Amin chords. I will teach you an up down guitar strumming technique used in many rock and pop songs.
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Learn lead guitar scales in my free new 7 video series Learn to Play Lead Guitar. Here is an easy to learn method of videos which will teach you how to play lead guitar or improve your lead guitar skills. I put this series together because there was so much conflicting and confusing information on the Internet about how to play lead guitar.
You will learn the 5 positions of the minor pentatonic and minor scales and learn hoe to play them in any key. This will allow you to play leads on the entire fretboard. I also throw in some cool riffs which you can use for your solos!
When you want to take lessons to learn how to play guitar or to improve your guitar playing skill level you have three choices which can help provide you with the needed instructional information.
Online guitar lessons are an excellent way of learning how to play the guitar or improve your skills. There are many different types of online guitar lessons to choose from. Of course You Tube is filled with free online guitar videos which can help you become a better guitar player. The quality of videos and instructors will vary greatly and it is a bit of a hit and miss type of approach. In my opinion the best site to take online guitar lessons from is guitartricks.com. They actually offer 24 free lessons which can try and see if you like their approach to teaching guitar. One big advantage to using online guitar lessons is that you can learn at your own speed. You can rewind, pause and play a video as many times as you would like until you understand fully what the instructor is teaching you. Other advantages include having the ability to view lessons whenever you have time and not having to travel anywhere to take a good guitar lesson.
The second lesson type is a private lesson. This is where you find a local guitar teacher and have weekly sessions. This is a good way to learn how to play guitar from a professional teacher. You will get personal instruction and have the ability to ask questions and show the teacher on the issues you are having trying to learn the guitar or increase your skill level. This is an excellent option but it probably will be the most costly of the three. You want to talk to any teachers that you would like to take lessons from to understand what they will be teaching you and how. If you want to learn how to play rock guitar and the instructor teaches jazz type of guitar styles then you should look for another teacher.
The third option is learning from a DVD. This is another good option if you want to learn on your own time and have the ability to go over lessons until you get them down. Often times these types of lessons will come with printed material of PDF’s which you can print off and have in front of you when you are practicing. I have found having a hard copy of the lesson you are learning to be much better that looking at a computer screen of information.
The choice is up to you when you are choosing which types of lessons are right for you. If you are disciplined and are motivated to learn how to play guitar or improve your ability then I would encourage you to try online lessons or DVD’s. If you need some personal guidance and do not do well learning on your own then I would try private lessons. You can try each of these for a limited time (free online lessons from GuitarTricks.com, single low cost DVD, or take a few private lessons) and see what works well for you. You can then expand from there and take additional lessons on the technique that fits you best.
They can take some time to learn, but once you master them to the fullest extent – there will be no reason why you can not take over a song with an incredible solo by using Blues guitar scales!
This may surprise you, but they are commonly used in many songs including Aerosmith, John Mayer, Coldplay, Nirvana, and many other popular bands. If you name the band – they probably use it; especially if they are a popular.
They are popular simply because they are easy to access, they are easy to use and implement in a song, and they have a widescale appeal – people think you are an absolutely genious when you use this type of scale to play your songs!
So What is it Exactly?
Blue scales depends the use of a musical scale that has six notes/pitches per octave. It’s a pretty active playing style but nothing you can’t get used to!
It is also based on each key or string, It is not based on the chord – this simply would not be blue scale guitar playing. It has been used by musicians for decades so that they can improvise. When you see those awesome improvisations – they’re really just using blues scale.
Also, you have to be sure to memorize your finger pattern so that you will be able to do your hot solos or “improvisations”.
You want to make sure that you learn your individual strings and fretboard so that you will ultimately learn how to play Blue scales on your guitar and become a great lead guitarist!
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I will now mention briefly some of the techniques you will be using when you learn to play blues guitar. Of course, no one technique is exclusive to any particular discipline, but the ones I am listing will be your means of communicating your own blues to your listeners. There are a techniques for playing notes without picking the string with the plectrum or your right hand fingers. First, String Bending which means bending the guitar string with the fingers of your left hand to alter the note you are playing up or down. Or you can press on the string, pluck the note and Slide it up or down. If you pick a note at the first fret and remove your finger with a pulling action it will sound the note you just played followed by the sound of the open string. This is called a pull-off. Likewise you can pluck a note and while holding it with the first finger, slam the second finger down on the next fret. That is a hammer-on.
These techniques are a lot easier to do than they are to describe, so make use of on-line videos to watch guitarists execute these techniques. You will also be able to see when blues guitarists play single-note scale passages and when they prefer to use arpeggios, but that will take some practice at listening.
B.B. King is a blues legend who you should look for in videos and in tab collections. He always surrounds himself with top class musicians who are at the top of their form. His songs always have that spark of spontaneity as if he was making up the words and music as he goes along but there is never a hesitation over a lyric and never a note out of place. Songs include Beautician Blues, Five Long Years, Just like a Woman, Riding with the King, Rock Me Baby, Sweet Sixteen, Three O’Clock Blues, The Thrill Is Gone, Why I Sing the Blues, You Upset Me Baby.
Another obvious choice to emulate is Eric Clapton, one of the greatest guitar players the world has seen. His music has always been based in the blues even though he has successfully ventured into rock, reggae and ballads. Standouts among many great songs include After Midnight, Hide Away, Bad Love, Badge, Before You Accuse Me (Take A Look At Yourself), Cocaine, Cross Road Blues (Crossroads), Forever Man, Hard Times, Have You Ever Loved A Woman, I Ain’t Got You, I Can’t Stand It, I Feel Free, I Shot The Sheriff, Lay Down Sally, Layla, Let It Grow, Strange Brew, Sunshine Of Your Love, Tulsa Time, White Room and Wonderful Tonight.
Chuck Berry was one of the first artists to add that intangible element to blues music which gave the world rock and roll. Johnny B. Goode, Maybellene, Rock And Roll Music are three of his songs included in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Others are Back in the U.S.A., Little Queenie, Roll Over Beethoven, Sweet Little Rock and Roller, Too Much Monkey Business, No Particular Place To Go and Carol.
As you listen to these artists and try to read and play the guitar tabs of their music, you will find that the technical side of learning blues guitar is not so difficult. Good luck with finding that bluesy feeling!
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