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Session Six
Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4
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Session Five
Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4
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Session Four
We’ll add some hammer-ons and pull-offs to the exercises that we played in our last session. This gets tough, especially exercise 4! Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4
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Session Three
Let’s see if we can confuse those fingers! These exercises will have you thinking backward. Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4
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Session Two
Today’s set of lessons are quite similar to yesterday’s lessons except for one key difference. Instead of alternate picking each note we’ll apply hammer-ons and pull-offs. Some people find this more difficult because additional finger strength is required to sound the notes that we hammer-on and pull-off to. Play along with a metronome and pay…
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Shake It Off! Everything You Need to Know About Vibrato
Chops: IntermediateTheory: BeginnerLesson Overview:• Increase control of your fretting hand to shape and improve your vibrato.• From subtle intonation adjustments to wide, authoritative statements, learn different strategies for using vibrato.• Explore ways to unlock your creative potential in any situation. Click here to download a printable PDF of this lesson’s notation. Ask 10 guitarists what…
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Ian Anderson Announces Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary North American Tour
Ian Anderson has announced a North American tour that will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his band, Jethro Tull. The concerts will feature a broad mix of material, ranging from the band’s earliest work, to its peak period in the early to mid-Seventies, to the band’s 21st century work. Anderson (vocals, flute) will be joined…
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Mad Hatter Guitar Products Introduces Super Shredder Humbucker Pickups
Mad Hatter Guitar Products has announced the release of its new Super Shredder Humbucker Pickups. The Super Shredder Humbucker Pickups—which Mad Hatter designed in collaboration with Fralin Pickups—were designed to have incredible note clarity, to be responsive and to have focused mids that sit perfectly in the mix. When split, they have no volume loss…
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How to Handle Harmonics
Chops: Intermediate Theory: Beginner Lesson Overview: • Learn how to coax both natural and fretted harmonics out of your instrument. • Combine fretted notes with harmonics in the style of Lenny Breau and Chet Atkins. • Improve your picking technique with some challenging sleight-of-hand. Click here to download a printable PDF of this lesson’s notation.…
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Leaving On A Jet Plane by John Denver
In this song study of “Leaving On A Jet Plane” by John Denver I’ll present you with different ways to approach and play the song. That’s the ultimate goal of this song study! Not only do I want you to be able to perform the song, but I want you to understand the theory behind…