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  • Slide Guitar Muting

    In this lesson we’re going to talk about muting when playing slide guitar. There’s two ways to mute when playing slide guitar: with the left hand with the right hand With the left hand we can our fingers behind the slide on the strings to dampen unused strings. With the right hand you can use…

  • Slide Guitar: Frequently Asked Questions

    Below you’ll find answers to common questions about playing slide guitar. Be sure to check out our “Beginner Slide Guitar” course. “Which slide should I use?” There are basically two types of slides: metal and glass. Glass is great for sustain. The heavier the glass the better. You could go the old school route and cut…

  • Five Songs That Forever Changed Electric Guitar

    Electric Guitar Hasn’t Been The Same Since… It’s a rare occurrence when a single song changes everything, but I’m going to list five songs that forever changed how the electric guitar was played. While Jazz musicians had been using electric guitars since the 1930s, the latter half of the 20th century saw the emergence of…

  • Technique Exercises #1

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    Welcome to the first lesson. Remember: you must put the practice time in to get faster! Fig. 1: Simple Alternate Picking Exercise Fig. 2: Alternate Picking Variation Fig. 3: One, Two, Four Fig. 4: Pentatonic Scale Fig. 5: Up The Strings Fig. 6: Down The Strings

  • Down In A Hole ( Unplugged) by Alice In Chains

    Difficulty: Intermediate In many ways, Alice in Chains was the definitive heavy metal band of the early ’90s. Drawing equally from the heavy riffing of post metal and the gloominess of post-punk, the band developed a cool sound that balanced grinding hard rock with subtly textured acoustic numbers. Album : MTV Unplugged It’s tuned to all flats. Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb Intro…

  • Star Spangled Banner by Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock

    Transcribed here is the the legendary Hendrix performance of The Star Spangled Banner. I’ve omitted the whammy bar dives mid way through the song that recreate the sounds of bombs or fireworks (or what ever you interpret them to be). Enjoy! On the bend on the 7th fret your bending the note up on the…

  • “Californication” by Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Difficulty: Easy This song is actually easier to play when you listen to it, as opposed to trying to read it. A song played by John Frusciante MUST be felt to get the idea. He plays sporadic notes, which is sometimes easy, and sometimes hard. Listen to the full solo: Solo Ok. We aren’t going to…

  • About A Girl by Nirvana (Guitar Solo)

    Difficulty: Easy This intro is rather easy because it basically repeats itself. You will be in standard tuning, so there’s no need to tune differently. The popular “solo” below is one of the only ones that Kurt Cobain ever really played. There is nothing going on here while he is playing except the bass line and drums, as…

  • How To Play And Use Scales On The Guitar

    Scales are the building blocks of music. They are a sequence of notes that provide a road map for just about everything including chord construction, chord progressions, songwriting, and soloing. Understanding scales is about as essential to a guitarist’s survival as water is to a fish. In a way, learning scales is kind of like learning what notes go together…

  • “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide” by ZZ Top

    Intro In this guitar riff the first 3 measures of the intro are at 104 beats per minute. In the 4th measure the tempo turns to 80 beats per minute where the 3rd guitar part below plays a bluesy fill. Here’s what all the guitar parts sound like together: Guitar 1 Guitar 2 Guitar 3 Here’s the…