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How To Play Cemetery Gates 2008-06-26 12:10:00 In this post I'll show you how to play a really great song by the infamous band Pantera. I know, I know, many of you are probably vomiting right now, but this song fits nicely within some of the other lessons that I have posted. Also, before you click away, if you're that person who thinks metal is revolting, you should at least check out the opening passage, because if you ARE that guy, then Read more:Cemetery
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The Step Up 2008-06-25 14:01:21 This is an idea of an exercise that I have been using and reworking since I was a kid. I've always just called it the step-up and the inverted version would therefor be called the step-down.
It is a very neo-classical guitar exercise in structure, but has a wonderful sound to it. Again, with any guitar exercise, this one is fully customizable and can be rearranged.
As I have mentioned before,
The Lydian Mode 2008-06-23 10:42:02 I would say that Lydian is probably my favorite mode. It has a very warm presence to it, and I have found that I like its sound when it comes to using it with distortion. The Lydian mode is also an amazing mode for the simple reason that you can go from playing really upbeat and explorative passages, to very moody/melancholy and thoughtfully expressive passages.
As is typical with a lot of these
Minor Pentatonic Scale 2008-06-22 15:02:34 One more thing to add to your guitar arsenal of licks. We're going to take a good look at the Minor
Pentatonic scale.
The great thing about this scale, is that it is almost exactly like the Major Pentatonic scale. In fact, its safe to look at it as the same scale. It has the exact fingering in that classic "box" formation.
The only difference is that when you are playing the Major Pent Read more:Scale
Major Pentatonic 2008-06-19 12:19:28 Its time to learn the Pentatonic scales. You shouldn't be scared and there's no need to shutter. If you could pick only one mode to learn, and it was mandatory, you should pick this one. It gets the most use. Yes, it is a prostitute mode. We'll start with the Major
Pentatonic scale first.
I'll show you the Minor Pentatonic, and then the Blues scale, in the following couple of days. Here's why
E7 Blues Part I 2008-06-18 15:39:00 This is a blues standard, in terms of chord progression. A lot of people know this one, but it really is a good thing to know, because it is quite fun to jam over. If you have a buddy who plays guitar, the two of you can take turns soloing over this chord progression. Its a good way to get those improvising skills going.
In the next lesson, I'll show you some blues scales that you can use Read more:Blues
How to make a vocal booth for $30 2008-06-13 10:06:47 This by far is the ugliest, most revolting vocal booth that you will ever see, and yet it works really insanely well.
I recently had to disassemble it and a tear came to my eye, because its brought me a lot of quality and it was a nice place to just relax. Anyways, you can build one of these too, and using this method makes it very customizable and simple. Don't wait around - screw the
Double Pinch Harmonics 2008-06-12 09:29:03 This is mostly a visual entry, but let me put into words some key factors for doing double pinch harmonics, just in case I left something out or didn't state them clear enough in the video.
If you are unsure of how to create a pinch harmonic or don't even know what it is, make sure to check out the video on Pinch Harmonics that I did. To do a double pinch harmonic is not easy, but it is possible
Guitar Trick No. 1 - The Natural Harmonic Bend 2008-06-11 15:28:36 I'm going to show you something that I've been doing for years and as most guitar tricks come about, I just stumbled upon it.
I'm going to show you how to do a natural harmonic bend. Most people would believe this to be impossible, but it is far from. This is especially nice for guitarists like myself, who play on a guitar that doesn't have a whammy bar.
I'm not a big fan of the whammy bar so I Read more:Guitar
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The Order Of Modes 2008-06-11 11:35:08 I have been stressing the importance of learning the major scale, inside and out. I took the time to tab out the major scales running a whole octave, from E to the octave of E, spanning all of the keys. It is important to understand that the root note of a key can be found in many different places on the guitar neck. An example of this would be that if the 1st fret on the low E string is F, there Read more:Modes
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Ionian Mode 2008-06-11 11:34:15 Hopefully you took me seriously and made an effort to memorize the order of modes, but regardless, I'm still going to move forward and post the first mode. The Ionian mode.
The formula is as follows.
The whole step/half step formula
W,W,H,W,W,W,H
Something interesting to remember about the Ionian mode is that it is exactly the same as the major scale, note for note. So when you're playing A
Fretting Hand Dexterity 2008-06-09 11:18:52 The last guitar exercise that I showed you, was used to develop a stronger fretting hand, with more control and a more refined kind of precision.
This time we will focus on something that plagues all guitarists. The evil conflict between the pinkie and the ring fingers. This next exercise should help with loosening up the webbing between those two fingers. You can use this exercise as a model to
Fretting Hand Strength Building Exercise 2008-06-04 14:40:00 Picking exercises are great alone and do wonders for both hands, but depending on the exercise that has been designed, the fretting hand can be left out.
I recently was trying to figure out a good exercise that would do wonders for the fretting hand, that I could share with everyone.
I found it, and it didn't take long, because I knew what needed to be done. I knew that this exercise would Read more:Building
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The Natural Minor Scales 2008-06-02 12:06:46 Today were are going to go over the minor scale, inside and out. Just like with the major scale a few days ago, I'll show you how to play this one from one octave to another.
It is important to understand that there are actually 3 minor scales. The 1st one, natural minor, is the one that we will be covering here.
Again, like any other scale or mode, this one also has a half step/whole step Read more:Minor
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The Major Scales 2008-05-30 12:14:47 Here it is. All of the major scales, starting in an open E position and ending on the 12th fret, the octave of E. You should consider printing these off, and memorizing them. Its very easy, because minus the open E scale, the rest all consist of the same pattern. Just a matter of starting the pattern on a different fret to change the key.
You need to know this scale inside and out before I can Read more:Major
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Savoy Lead 2008-05-29 11:21:58 As promised, I have transcribed that blues lead for everyone and as I mentioned before you should definitely play around with the notes. In other words, you should make it your own.
Below is a video of the lead and below that is the lead itself, transcribed. I told you that I would play the lead as it was written, but then improvise over top of those same notes.
Well, I did both of those things Read more:Savoy
Savoy Brown style Blues 2008-05-28 13:49:09 Savoy Brown
Style Blues
When it comes to the Blues, there are those who love it and there are those who treat it as oxygen. I wouldn't go so far as to say that I wouldn't be able to live without it, but I certainly have played a lot of Blues and still use a lot of its important lessons in my playing today.
When I was a kid, my favorite blues group was a band called Savoy Brown, who are still Read more:Savoy
Harmonics pt. 1 - Right Hand Assisted Harmonics 2008-05-26 10:00:57 Harmonics pt. 1 - Right
Hand Assisted Harmonic
Its that time! already you say? yes, yes, but anybody can do harmonics with just a little bit of practice. After that, its really up to you to figure out all of the many, many things that can be done with them.
In a future article I will be releasing to you something that I have come to dub The Harmonic Spectrum. It is how I have come to
Guitar Speed Exercise No. 6 2008-05-23 12:39:43 Guitar SpeedExercise
No. 6
"pinkie training"
This exercises is the reversed form of Guitar Speed Exercise No. 1. It works much the same way, but it is a lot harder. The reason that I'm sharing this one with everyone, is because the fretting hand pinkie has always been a difficult finger, when it comes to strengthening it.
In Speed Exercise 1, the index finger was the anchor point, an Read more:Guitar
The Notes of The Guitar 2008-05-16 10:29:18 The Fretboard and The Notes
Sounds like a good title for a movie that would bomb at the box office, even if it were to be pitted against "The Richard Simmons Story", don't you think?
Anyways, it is very important to establish some basic principles about the guitar. I really despise using the word "basic" because it carries the wrong condontation, but for those of you who are Read more:Guitar
Power Chords 2008-05-14 23:58:14 Power Chords
Might as well keep up with this chord structure thing, and the last two articles were about the construction of triads. What comes to my mind now, are power chords.
If you already know how to play power chords, and a lot of you do, you might as well read this article to find out a little bit more about them.
Also, if you haven't yet, make sure to check out the two part article on
10 Ways To Maximize Your Guitar Playing 2008-07-09 11:31:43 Many times it is necessary to acquire an over-all knowledge and understanding of how to go about practicing guitar, as opposed to just learning techniques, riffs, scales and modes. All of these things are highly important of course but when applied correctly, can make the ultimate difference in progress. Progress is the ticket for many guitarists because everyone, no matter what their passion is, Read more:Guitar
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Arpeggios Revisited 2008-07-08 15:02:37 In the last post I explained to you what an Arpeggio was and how to use it, but I didn't go into exactly how a guitarist may want to use it. If you remember, I had explained that an arpeggio is the same as picking out the individual notes of a chord. The example that we worked with was out of the B minor chord, but I didn't take it any further than that, because I didn't want to cram too much Read more:Arpeggios
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Two Finger Madness 2008-07-08 14:18:06 Sounds kinky. Anyways, there was once a great guitarist by the name of Django Reinhardt. Many people are very familiar with the late and great Guitar God, but there are still a lot of people out there who have no idea who he is. All that I can say, is that I have popped in a Django Reinhardt album time and time again for some Goth, hormonal teenager, metal-head, punk or Emo brat, and they always, Read more:Madness
Martin Acoustic 2008-07-08 14:16:22 Every time I pull out my 1961 Martin
I think of Indiana Jones blowing some dust off of a newly rediscovered ancient relic. The Martin is in a fragile state, with a decaying top around the pick guard, and the strings are probably as old as it, because to change or tune them could mean sudden death.
None the less the sound is amazing and I still play it, but very gently. Its really funny to Read more:Acoustic
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