GP Presents Trace Bundy’s Acoustic Holiday December 21 in Berkeley, CA - Win Tickets!

Trace Bundy is the kind of guitar player best experienced live, because the ace two-hand tapper accomplishes so many Olympic fretboard feats that a good look helps inform a good listen. The “Acoustic Ninja” clearly understands that and wants the audience to understand what’s happening with his hands, so he goes entertainingly out of his way to let folks know. Guitar Player presented a Bundy show about five years ago and in review made the following observations:

“Like a magician who lets the audience in on his act before each trick, Bundy explained everything from the way he utilizes echoes and loops to the techniques he employs. His detailed explanations about utilizing open tunings and multiple capos made players and fans alike feel invested. His cover arrangements were innovative, and his insights on the origins of his originals made them feel instantly familiar. He floored sports fans with his rendition of ESPN’s SportsCenter theme that won him a spot on the actual show. He whipped out his iPhone and played a spot-on version of “Beat It” using the PocketGuitar app. In his hands, the acoustic guitar was an imagination station, and there was no telling where he was going take the audience at any given turn.”

What new tricks will Bundy bring to the table on December 21 for his Acoustic Holiday show at one of the most famous folk houses on the West Coast?

Get your show tickets here and come see for yourself.

WIN TICKETS!

For a chance to win a pair of tickets to see GP Presents Trace Bundy, click here and put “Bundy” in the subject of your email. Include a sentence about yourself and why you want to go. Phone contact greatly appreciated for confirmation. Winner must provide their own transportation to Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California on Saturday, December 21 and have their own accommodations in the Bay Area. Best of luck!

EVENT DETAILS

GP Presents Trace Bundy’s Acoustic Holiday
Saturday, December 21

Freight & Salvage
2020 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA, 94704

7pm doors: 8pm show

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Video Podcast 68 Born Under a Bad Sign Style Rhythm and Solo lesson.

In this lesson I want to show you how to play a Born Under a Bad Sign Style rhythm and solo. This lesson is in the key of C.

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Open Arms Guitar Lesson – Journey

In this Open Arms guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play this massive hit by Journey note-for-note.

The tuning is standard tuning.

I have transcribed the opening piano part for guitar so that you can recreate this classic opening even without a piano/keyboard player in your band.

After that, I will cover all the guitar parts as they are played by the great Neal Schon. He uses some interesting chord voicings at certain points, and when I demonstrate those, I will also briefly mention the theory behind how those chords are derived.

I hope you guys enjoy learning this great song from Journey!

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How to Get the Most Out of Alternate Tunings by Richard Thompson - Acoustic Guitar

How to Get the Most Out of Alternate Tunings by Richard Thompson  Acoustic Guitar

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#9 Dream Guitar Lesson – John Lennon

In this #9 Dream guitar lesson video, I will show you all the chords to this great song by John Lennon off of his Walls And Bridges album.

The tuning is standard tuning.

The chord shapes that John Lennon uses throughout #9 "Dream are pretty basic, but he still uses them to create some unique chord progressions, especially during the verse.

There is also a cool arpeggio picked pre-chorus along with a cool descending arpeggio sequence to learn as well.

I will teach each section of the song in the order that each appears.

Have fun learning this great song by the incomparable John Lennon!

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#9 Dream Guitar Lesson - John Lennon

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Whiplash Guitar Lesson – Metallica

In this Whiplash guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play this Metallica classic off of their Kill 'Em All album in it's entirety.

The tuning is standard tuning.

*** Quick Note! At the end of the main riff I might have missed a quick pull-off. After doing the 765 part, you do hit an E5 power chord, but right when you hit it, also play a very quick pull-off from 3 to 0 on the 6th string with your middle finger! ***

There are some great riffs in this one. The riffs are also pretty easy compared to Metallica's usual output. I will cover every riff in the order that each appears in the song.

I will also cover Kirk Hammett's solo phrase-by-phrase. There are some great legato licks in this one and it is a great example of Kirk's playing in his early days with Metallica.

Have fun with this great Metallica track everyone!

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Bron-Y-Aur Stomp Guitar Lesson – Led Zeppelin

In this Bron-Y-Aur Stomp guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play this great acoustic track from the Led Zeppelin III album in it's entirety.

The tuning is open F tuning. That is, starting from the 6th string, C F C F A C. All the strings are tuned DOWN to those respective notes.

The intro to "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" is by far the most difficult section of the song to play. It opens with some harmonics that launch into a series of hybrid picked patterns played at a pretty quick tempo. From there Jimmy Page moves into a flat-picked section that includes a lot of fast pull-offs and string skipping.

When we finally get into the chord work, things become much easier to play. The rhythm work uses a very aggressive strumming style that can present a challenge for a lot of players.

I will take you through each section of the song in the order that each appears.

After you get this one down, and get past the intro 🙂 , this is a really fun track to play!

Enjoy!

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Bron-Y-Aur Stomp Guitar Lesson - Led Zeppelin

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Great Trick to Learn Major and Minor Chords in Any Key

Visit Ben’s YouTube Channel Here for more great lessons like this!

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How to play “I Walk The Line” by Johnny Cash – Acoustic Guitar Lesson

Learn how to play the song “I Walk The Line” by Johnny Cash. Visit the Song Notes youtube channel here for more great lessons!

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Who Made Who Guitar Lesson – AC/DC

In this Who Made Who guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play this AC/DC classic note-for-note.

The tuning is standard tuning.

Many of Malcolm Young's rhythm parts are very basic, yet as always, extremely tightly played.

Angus Young's guitar parts can be very challenging at times. Probably the most difficult part for most players will be Angus' hybrid picked riff that starts in the first verse.

The solo contains a lot of repeated legato licks and even some pick tapping. 

I hope you guys enjoy learning this one!

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High Hopes Guitar Lesson – Pink Floyd

In this High Hopes guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play all of this great Pink Floyd track from their The Division Bell album in it's entirety.

The tuning is standard tuning.

We have a lot to cover in this one. First, I have arranged the opening piano and church bell parts for guitar. It is relatively simple thing to play on the guitar as long as you move it down an octave into a comfortable range. The piano part in the verse is verse similar with just a slight alteration.

For the pre-chorus and chorus sections, I will be doing an arrangement of the complete harmony you are hearing being played by the strings and other instruments instead of trying to just copy the guitar fills.

Then we have the really cool nylon string guitar solo. I will show you how to play that note-for-note.

Then when have David Gilmour's epic lap steel solo that closes out the song. Instead of trying to recreate this lap steel part with a slide guitar part, I will instead play it fingered as a non slide guitar solo since I think most people would choose to play it that way. If you prefer to play slide, simply play the same notes I teach, but with a slide. For the section of the solo that goes way out of the range of a normal guitar, I have used a Digitech Whammy Pedal effect model in my Line 6 Helix to raise the notes I am playing up one octave.

That last solo is pretty epic and runs around two minutes long. It contains some really beautiful melodies. I hope you enjoy the challenge. 🙂

Have fun everyone!

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Rock Guitar Mastery

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Woodstock Shred: Revisiting Alvin Lee's "I'm Going Home"

From a guitarist's perspective, the 1970 Woodstock film, which documents the highs and lows of the August 1969 Woodstock Festival, has several highlights.

There's Jimi Hendrix's immortal take on "The Star-Spangled Banner", a mesmerizing performance by newcomers Santana and Pete Townshend's high-flying Gibson SG acrobatics with the Who.

But for a full-on blues-rocking experience, there's no beating Ten Years After's adrenaline-fueled reading of "I'm Going Home." The performance, an intense nod to vintage blues and Fifties rock and roll, featured the lightning-fast fretwork of Ten Years After frontman Alvin Lee.

"The solo on the movie sounds pretty rough to me these days," Lee told me not long before his death in 2013. "But it had the energy, and that was what Ten Years After were all about at the time."

The performance made instant stars out of the British band, which led to more big-name festivals, a label change and their biggest hit, 1971's "I'd Love to Change the World."

During my interview - which was tied into his new studio album at the time - I couldn't help but steer things toward "I'm Going Home."

The first time I saw the Woodstock film, I was completely knocked out by Ten Years After's performance of "I'm Going Home." It is, without a doubt, one of the movie's true guitar highlights. I remember thinking I'd never seen a blues/rock guitarist play that fast before, at least not a guitarist in 1969. Where the hell did that come from?

You’re obviously a man of very good taste! Seriously, though, I never really tried to play fast. It kind of developed from the adrenaline rush of the hundreds of gigs I did long before Woodstock. They called me "Captain Speedfingers" and such, but I didn't take it seriously. There were many guitarists faster than me - Django Reinhardt, Barney Kessel, John McLaughlin and Joe Pass to name a few.

The solo in the movie sounds pretty rough to me these days, but it had the energy, and that was what Ten Years After were all about at the time. However, I often wonder what would have happened if they had used “I Can't Keep From Crying, Sometimes” in the movie instead of "I’m Going Home."

Did you admire the other great fast bluesman of the time, Johnny Winter?

Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green’s subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo.

What kind of delay/reverb, amp and overdrive did you use on the solo on "I'd Love to Change the World"?

As far as I remember, it was a Wem Dominator used as a pre-amp into the old Marshalls. I had the Wem 15-Watt power amp padded down to guitar input level. The echo was an EMT plate.

Lee's solo starts at 3:52 in the video below.

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SRV Style Born Under a Bad Sign Lesson

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The Result

The Result

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Expand Your Blues-Rock Soloing Palette with 4 Free Guitar Lessons from Jeff McErlain

The blues-rock genre has provided a stage on which some of the most legendary guitarists of all time have stood. Players like Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Beck, Michael Schenker, Eric Johnson, and David Gilmour are lauded for their exceptional harmonic and melodic styles of blues-rock soloing. In his course, Breakthrough Blues-Rock Soloing, Jeff […]

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Beginner / Intermediate ZZ Top Style 12 Bar Blues Solo Lesson

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The Man Behind the Curtains at Mesa/Boogie

Aschow (left) and lead tech/ designer John Marshall.

“The right guy at the right time” is an apt way to describe Jim Aschow, the man in charge of all of Mesa’s operations. Randall Smith has always said Mesa operates more like a band than a corporation, and like a maestro, Aschow orchestrates a daily score that keeps products and parts moving forward through R&D, and production humming along in harmony. 

“I started here in 1980 when I was 18,” Aschow says. “I didn’t even play guitar at the time, but I had an ability to figure out how to make stuff. On my father’s side were a couple of generations of violin and bow makers. We had a family-run shop in Oakland [California], and that type of craftsmanship always interested me.”

Aschow began in Mesa’s wood shop and was quickly given the responsibility of managing and modernizing the department and eventually bringing in CNC machinery to improve build quality. Since then, he’s put his laser focus on every aspect of production. He even developed the system for molding the foam packaging that protects every amp and cabinet when it leaves the factory.

But Aschow still enjoys working with wood. “I design all the cabinets and also many of the cosmetics,” he says. “When Randy has a chassis design ready, Doug, Randy and I begin working on a look. And once we get a cabinet built, we’ll start listening to speakers and tuning the cabinet. 

"All the finishes that we offer are things I’ve most often sourced and come up with. Designing cabinets gives me balance, because running a business day to day has its emergencies and demands, typically most of it in production, so it’s nice that I can be creative as well. So many of the amps we make are very versatile, especially the Mark series, where you’re going from pristine clean sounds to super-high gain. Making cabinets that behave well on both sides can be tricky.”

Mesa has a long history of delivering cutting-edge, premium-quality gear at affordable prices, and it’s an aspect of the company Aschow watches closely. “We’re always trying to think of value to the musicians,” he explains. “We don’t compromise on parts quality, but we’re always thinking about efficiency. That involves making it so the amps aren’t super complicated to build, even though some of our stuff is about as complicated as it can get.

"Randy is really good at that with the circuits, and when I’m designing cabinets and things like that, we’re always thinking about the manufacturing processes. It’s important, because you can design yourself into a corner, and then you’ve got something that’s more expensive to manufacture than it needs to be in the end.

“For Randy to trust me to run this amazing company he started means a lot to me. I’ve learned so much from him. He’s hyper-intelligent and relentless about pursuing excellence. The same with Doug, because he’s super gifted and has great ears. I’ve learned so much just from hanging out with them over the past decades together.”

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Blues Bass For Guitar Players

Blues Bass For Guitar Players

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