Category: Lessons
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John McLaughlin guitar lesson
Wonderful words of wisdom – not to mention playing – from the master! Includes some great insights into his early influences from the blues John McLaughlin’s guitar lesson @ PRS Part1 John McLaughlin’s guitar lesson @ PRS Part 2
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Chord voicings on guitar Pt2. Get dominant!
Chord voicings on guitar Pt2. Get dominant! On a previous post I showed chord voicing options for dimished chords, using different combinations of strings. Here’s the promised follow up, showing how you can use this knowledge to derive voicings for dominant chords. Dominant chords are hugely important, not just in their own right but also…
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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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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,…
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FREE Download: The 6 Vital Major scale and arpeggio patterns
Ashdown Guitar Lessons is delighted to make available to everyone who wants it a set of charts giving fretboard patterns for Major scales and their associated Major 7th arpeggios. If you didn’t know, it all starts here. From these scales you can derive all the other modes/scales and their arpeggios. We’ll be making other sets…
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Practising Pentatonics
Not sure about that title – sounds like the “Pentatonics” might be a religious denomination or a sexual orientation. But they’re neither. Pentatonic scales are really useful constructions that creep into all kinds of music, from the simplest to the most complex. I’ve published a couple of music and TAB exercises – one each for…
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