10 tips on Practising Guitar
It's better to practice 30 minutes a day than 10 hours once a week. Take frequent breaks, distract your mind to then go back and give full attention to what…
Funk Guitar Comping Tips Pt2 Ghost Notes and Muted Notes
We have seen how in the previous 'Funk Tips' video we can build a simple line and make it Funky...here I show example using muted notes and ghost notes. Simple…
Factorial Thinking (Combinations applied to music)
Today's' tip has to do with mathematics applied to music...we have already seen how in the finger combinations exercises we have used all the possible combinations of 2,3 and 4 fingers…
A list of the most popular jazz standards
This post if for the jazz guys, and possibly those that want to venture into jazz territory. I talked about repertoire yesterday, and today I was asked by a friend…
The Importance of Repertoire
In this short post I want to spend a few words on the importance of knowing tunes, either written by other musicians or by yourself. 'Repertoire' is often a fancy…
Triads Pt 2 Spread Voicings
We have seen in the previous lesson al the major triads in close (or closed) position. As already stated if these notes of the triad (or ‘voices’) are contained within…
Triads
In this lesson I go through all inversions for the most popular major triad 'shapes' on guitar. The theory behind triads is quite simple: a major triad is basically the…
The Guitar Kit Pro – Blank Music Templates and Guitar Templates
If you enjoyed the free version of 'The guitar kit', 'THE GUITAR KIT PRO' is an even bigger collection of music and guitar templates, that I personally use to teach,…
Playing in Fourths
I really like this style of phrasing, take some great examples like McCoy Tyner, and a lot of the 'hard bop' jazz cats. The basic idea is this: take a scale, in…
Guitar Great Vic Juris: A couple of great video lessons.
I was lucky enough to study with Vic Juris in the early 90's. Today I stumbled into a couple of great lessons on youtube and I wanted to share them…
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