UK-based Redbeard Effects – a joint venture between Skindred guitarist Mikey Demus and ThorpyFX mastermind Adrian Thorpe – has unveiled its latest creation, the Honey Badger Octave Fuzz.
The Honey Badger teams a high-gain fuzz with footswitchable sub-octave – there’s a choice of one or two octaves below.
Controls include volume, divide, octave, treble bass and fuzz, while the pedal boasts top-mounted jacks and true bypass switching, with an all-analog signal path.
The Honey Badger is available to preorder from Redbeard Effects for £199 (approx $250).
In this Boulevard Of Broken Dreams guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play this smash hit by Green Day in it's entirety.
The tuning is standard tuning. E A D G B E
First off, we have two different guitars being used. The acoustic guitar is in standard tuning, but is capoed at the first fret. There is also an electric guitar part that is in standard tuning but doesn't use a capo. This is also the way Green Day plays it live, (using another guitarist) except sometimes the capoed guitar is done with an electric guitar with a clean tone.
I will demonstrate how to play those acoustic chords with a capo, and without. It sounds better with a capo though because you get to use the open position chords for the strumming.
The song starts with guitar using a tremolo effect to get that stuttering sound. That is followed by the acoustic guitar in the verse. There are some electric guitar melodies in the verse that I will cover as well.
The chorus is when Billie Joe kicks in the distortion, playing a basic power chord progression.
There is a guitar solo using octaves a little later in the song that I will take you through note-for-note.
The ending of "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" is very cool and consists of two guitar parts. The main part is a "mostly" single note riff that uses heavy vibrato throughout. That riff is complemented by the second guitar part playing a sustained octave that gives everything a pretty eerie quality. One of my favorite Green Day moments for sure!
Have fun with this one!
Carl...
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Guitar Lesson - Green Day
TC Electronic has announced a new multi-effects pedal, the Plethora X5 TonePrint Pedalboard.
The long-rumored pedal features five sections of effects - with every TonePrint pedal TC Electronic has released to date. Each effects section features its own MASH footswitch. Users can create up to 127 "pedalboards," each with five pedals, and can store up to 75 TonePrints for each effect.
Any effect can be loaded in any pedal slot in any order, while the pedal's FX loop - which itself can be moved anywhere in the chain - allows users to run the Plethora before or after their own drive pedals.
Elsewhere, the pedal features stereo inputs and outputs, plus a cab sim with British-style voicing. Additional updates to the pedal have also been promised, to be rolled out throughout the course of its lifespan.
The TC Electronic Plethora X5 TonePrint Pedalboard multi-effects pedal will be available later this year for $399.
I’ve recently updated all the Podcast and Course solos that you learn to contain the Guitar Pro file associated with that lesson. These are .gp files and are compatible with Guitar Pro 7 and Tux Guitar which is a free program that will read these files.
Also the layout that contains all the materials for each lesson has been updated to make it much easier for you to access them.
Now below each lesson you will see the Soundslice Tab, PDF Tab, Guitar Pro, and Backing Track buttons for each of these media types. This makes it a much better user experience all around in my opinion so you can quickly access all the materials.
Some people really like the Soundslice Tab but some want to see the full PDF as well.
You can gain instant access to all the courses and lessons on the site with an All Access Pass.
The D Minor 11 Chord is found by locating the 1, b3, 5, b7, 9, 11 steps of the D Major Scale: D, E, F#, G, A, B, and C# , or the notes D, F, A, C, E and G. The “b3” symbol translates to “Flattened 3rd” , which means we simply lower the 3rd […]
Learn how to play the basic beginner guitar chord F Minor 6 (Also known as Fm6 or F Minor 6th) with this free guitar chord lesson. Technically speaking, the chord shape you will learn in this lesson is a chord inversion. This means that instead of the bass or lowest note of the chord being an “F”, […]
Here is a beginner jazz guitar chords lesson I recorded for those wanted to learn some easy jazz guitar chords.
Hopefully these should be accessible to you if you are an intermediate guitarist looking to add some jazz chords to your playing without hurting your fingers!
Learn how to play “Don’t Be Cruel” as performed by Elvis Presley with this free guitar lesson. This song was written by Otis Blackwell and then recorded by Elvis back in 1956. It is by far one of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time and made Rolling Stones list of the 500 […]
Advanced Guitar Chord Lesson – F Sharp Minor (F#m)/Gbm Learn how to play the advanced F Sharp Minor chord (Also known as F#m, Gb minor, G flat minor) on guitar, with this free guitar chord lesson. The F Sharp Minor Guitar Chord is not an easy chord to finger if you are a beginner. Below […]
Learn how to play the E6 (also known as E Major Sixth, EMaj6, E Major 6th) chord, with this free guitar lesson. The E6 Chord is found in the E Major Scale: E F# G# A B C# D# E. It is made up of the 1 , 3, 5 and 6 of this scale. […]
Learn how to play “Broken” by Lifehouse with this free guitar lesson. “Broken” is off the album Who We Are and was released in 2008. This song reached #95 on the Bilboard Hot 100 Chart. You can read more about this song over at Wikipedia. This is a really simplified version of this song for […]
So you have an interest in learning how to play Spanish Guitar? You are going to be very excited that you found this post then! On this page are 16 Spanish Guitar Lessons that were carefully chosen for beginners. Some of these video lessons will take some time for you to learn, but they are […]
Learn how to play the Am11 guitar chord (also known as A minor 11, A Minor 11th) with this free beginner chord lesson. The A Minor 11 Chord is found by locating the 1, b3, 5, b7, 9, 11 steps of the A Major Scale: A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G# , or the notes […]
So now matter how I hold the guitar whenever I try keeping a finger on a separate string it just ends up pressing on the one behind it, this makes it hard for me to even do an EM. Whenever I try pushing it forward so that it stays off the other string it feels like I’m gonna break my fingers.
Learn how to play the easy acoustic guitar song “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival with this easy guitar lesson. This song was released back in 1969 by CCR and was written by John Fogerty. It was a popular single from their album “Green River“. This song reached #2 on the Billbaord Hot 100 […]
Learn how to play the Ab/G# Major Guitar Chord with this free guitar lesson. This chord is found by locating the 1, 3 and 5 (Ab, C, and Eb) of the Ab Major Guitar Scale: Ab, Bb, C, Db, Eb, F and G. This is an advanced chord and rather challenging if you are just […]
The C Major 9 Guitar Chord (also known as C Major 9th, CMaj9) is a beautiful, dreamy sounding chord. It is often used in Jazz Guitar. The C Major 9 Chord is found by locating the 1, 3 , 5, 7 and 9 positions (C, E, G, B and D) of the C Major Scale: […]
Hey, I recently bought an electric guitar and I'm returning after 10+ years so pretty much a beginner at this point. I like my progress so far (memory is a hell of a thing) but one issue I'm having a lot is muting adjacent strings when doing open chords. I don't remember having this issue when I played -- might be because my hand was smaller as I was younger, or because I played acoustic which has a wider neck.
For example, when playing D I often mute the E string with my 3rd finger. When playing A I sometimes mute the G string with my 2nd finger and sometimes mute, once again, the E string with my 3rd finger.
Should I always make an effort to have my fingers as perpendicular to the neck as possible? In such a way that I only press the string with the very tip of my finger? Is that the correct way to avoid this issue? Should I try something else?
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