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Nuthin’ But Pull-Offs Lick #2
Here’s that uses nothing but pull-offs. It’s similar to a lick from “Crazy Train”.
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Naming The Strings
The most common way to refer to a string is its alphabet name. The 1st string is the highest string on the guitar (it’s the thinnest string). It’s an E note and we call it the “high E string”. The 2nd string is B. The 3rd string is G. The 4th string is D. The…
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G Chord Fingerpicking Pattern #4
PDF: G Chord Fingerpicking Patterns 2
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Blues Guitar Double Stops In The Key Of B
Download the tab in PDF to play along with the video. It’s located here: Double-Stops-In-B You’ll find a B note on the 2nd fret of the A string and 7th fret of the low E string- these are perfect reference notes that help you keep in line
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Variations of The C Chord
Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4: Just Another C Chord Fig. 5: C Suspended 2nd (C sus2) Fig. 6: C Major 7th A major seventh chord refers to where the “seventh” note is a major seventh above the root (a fifth above the third note). This is more precisely known as the major/major seventh chord, and it can be written as maj7,…
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Nuthin’ But Pull-Offs Lick #1
This is a fun lick that you can perform using nothing but pull-offs. You can get it really fast with a little practice!
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Hammer-On
A hammer-on is a playing technique that is performed by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down onto the fingerboard, causing a note to sound. This technique is the opposite of the pull-off. Passages in which a large proportion of the notes are performed as hammer-ons and pull-offs are known as legato phrases. A rapid series…
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Variations Of The G Chord
Fig. 1: Extended G Major Scale The root (G) is in parenthesis. It appears 3 times. The G major scale consists of 7 notes: G, A, B, C, D, E, and F#. Number them, in order, from 1-7 and you’ll have your scale steps. The 1st scale step is G. The 2nd is A and so forth.…
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Blues Guitar Double Stops In The Key Of A#
A# (A sharp) is the same thing as Bb (B flat). The PDF file with notation and tab for this lesson is located here: Double-Stops-In-A-1