Category: Tutorials
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Another Free Jazz Lesson from TrueFire – Sheryl Bailey
TrueFire continue to offer some great free guitar lessons on YouTube, in addition to their excellent catalogue of paid-for lessons. This one is with Sheryl Bailey, creator of the Bebop Dojo. It’s part of TrueFire’s ‘My Favorite Thing’ series – check out the original TrueFire page here. Sheryl shows how you can create great jazz lines using chromatics to approach…
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Another Free Jazz Lesson from TrueFire – Fareed Haque
Here’s the second of three great free lessons from the excellent TrueFire. Check out the original TrueFire page here. The lesson is part of TrueFire’s ‘My Favorite Thing’ series. It features FAREED HAQUE demonstrating a useful lick you can start deploying in your solos straight away. Check it out!
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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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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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How to tune a PA system (“ringing out”)
This video takes you through the easy steps of tuning your PA system with a graphic equaliser – also known as “ringing out” the PA. It shows you how to set up your live PA system quickly to: avoid feedback get a better, more balanced sound Ringing out isn’t just about killing feedback. Feedback is…
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Make your own instrument cables
Here’s a great video on making your own professional grade cables for guitar (and other equipment). Apart from the rather cheesy beginning and ending this is a really clear and well put together tutorial, presented by Robert Hull of TubeDepot.com If you’re confident with a soldering iron you can: save yourself a fortune make sure…
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