After playing guitar nearly 40 years, this is the *heart* of advanced guitar lessons and guitar knowledge that I have learned and want to share with you.
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Advanced Guitar Lessons
- Wish I had Known this simple trick when I first started playing guitar…
- Sliding Blues Scale – Break-out of the box!
- Connecting the entire fretboard – The Blues Scale in 5 positions
- Getting twice as much impact out of your solos!
- A quick guide: Mastering Pinch Harmonics
- Neo-classical TAB Warm-up exercise
- 3 Tips that will increase your picking speed by 100% – Upstroke, Inside and Outside picking and String Skipping
- Understanding Legato and Staccato Techniques on Guitar
- 10 Legato exercises that will double your finger strength
- How to get paid to learn guitar – yup, you heard me right
- Writing Instrumental Music – the “write” way
- TOP 5 secrets to playing guitar like Eddie Van Halen (5 Videos – NEW!)
- Harnessing the Universal Consciousness [new!]
I had uploaded a video of me recording a solo from my 3rd instrumental album. At the same time, BMW started a marketing campaign online focusing on extreme sports (Snow Boarding, Skydiving adrenaline-rush type of stuff). BWM contacted me and told me that they considered my guitar playing on this song “an extreme sport” and asked to use my home studio video in their campaign. I thought it was a trip, and agreed just for the fun of it. Here it is below
* * ALSO Below is a list of advanced guitar lessons, in no particular order, that are in-development. Make sure to connect with me to be notified when new lessons are completed. And if there is a lesson below you’d like to see sooner than later, let me know!
- Three note exercise – a different approach to each string
- Chromatic Warmups for dexterity, accuracy and speed
- Legato runs
- Sliding into and out-of notes
- Tapping techniques
- Octave solo style: Wes Montgomery George Benson
- Arpeggios with tapping
- Grace notes/fill, and avoiding the Crocodiles
- Importance of Jamming with others
- Chordal Soloing
- Attack, sustain, advanced dynamics
- Effects timing
- Conversations while soloing/two minds at once
- Octave mirroring
- Using other songs as melody templates for rhythm
- How to break down a solo and master it
- Constructing solos
- Intermediate ear-training
- My TOP list of songs to listen to for study and inspiration: Acoustic and Electric
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