Author: Andy Evans
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Free Jazz Lesson from TrueFire – Tom Dempsey
Here’s an excellent lesson on using chromatics from the ever-helpful, ever-great guys at TrueFire. Check out the original TrueFire page here. The lesson is part of TrueFire’s ‘My Favorite Thing’ series. It features Tom Dempsey showing how it’s done in his straightforward, no-nonsense way. Tom is a fantastic guitarist with a cv to die for. Check…
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Fender shuts down US production of Ovation guitars
I had an Ovation Balladeer for many years. It was a great guitar – played well, good tone and projection, and equally at home fingerstyle, picking or strumming. But there’s something of a ‘frozen in time’ quality about Ovations now – as much a part of the ’70s and ’80s as long hair and four (or…
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John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia
I first saw John McLaughlin in the first incarnation of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. That’s going back a long way, but in all that time he’s never stopped exploring and pushing the boundaries and his incredible technique are always at the service of the music, whether that’s jazz, fusion, indian music, flamenco-influenced music… He’s a great…
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Joe Pass & Ella Fitzgerald – Duets in Hannover 1975
Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald live in concert I’ve said before that I’m a big Joe Pass fan, and I love his duet recordings with the wonderful Ella Fitzgerald; so it was a great treat to find this concert recording on YouTube. The first half features Joe playing solo, as brilliant as ever. Then Ella joins…
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Chord voicings on guitar
Chord voicings on guitar I like Jimmy Bruno’s approach to developing chord voicings. Which is that you can derive almost everything you need just by knowing your dominant 7ths really well. On each string set (i.e. group of four strings) there are four different forms of the dominant 7th. Knowing them gives you a vast…
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Stocking fillers and gifts for your guitar hero
With only 33 days until Christmas here are some ideas for gifts and stocking fillers for the guitar-person in your life. If that’s you, then drop some hints to your significant other! All these items are available through the Ashdown Guitar Lessons Store, powered by Amazon.co.uk (Prices may vary. Correct at 21st November 2012) Stagg…
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Originally posted on :>)azZTechs#: In this tutorial we’ll have a look at the guitar scales, arpeggios and substitutions we can use to improvise over minor guitar chords, so we can make our guitar solos more interesting. Unless specified, we take a Dm chord as example. Here’s a roundup: 1) The Dorian Scale The 3 minor diatonic scales (Dorian, Phrygian,…
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Bellowhead – the best live band you’ll see!
Or to rephrase: Bellowhead. The best live band. You’ll see… …or you will if you catch them on their current tour. Bellowhead in full flight is an awesome thing – my favourite live band by a mile. And – smugly – I saw them again this week at the Brighton Dome; simply stunning! They are incredibly…
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