Thursday, September 24, 2020

I'm thinking about stopping lessons to learn on my own. Any pointers?

For the past year and a half, I've had an awesome guitar teacher who taught me the fundamentals (CAGED shapes, Minor and Major scales/Pentatonics, playing musically, hitting root notes when soloing, etc.), but recently, I just haven't been feeling his teaching. I feel like guitar is more of a chore when I do the stuff he assigns me. Right now he's having me work on playing through triads and linking them through every imaginable scale. I hate it. For the past few months, I just haven't really been having fun.

We've talked about my goals with guitar and how I want to get proficient in blues and metal guitar, but it feels like we're focusing on every skill that isn't even related to what my end goals are.

I understand that sometimes I have to bite the bullet and learn some stuff I don't want to so I can improve as a player, but we've been doing stuff that I hate. In no way do I enjoy having to just sit at my desk figuring out what triads go where and what they do. I feel like it won't help me reach my end goal.

I'm asking what you all think I should do in my situation, and if you all could recommend resources for me to study (regardless of if I go out on my own or stay with my teacher) I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

All Within My Hands Acoustic Guitar Lesson – Metallica

In this All Within My Hands acoustic guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play this great song off of Metallica's S&M2 album.

The tuning is Eb standard. That is, starting from the 6th string, Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb.

This acoustic guitar version of "All Within My Hands" is really great. Lots of really cool haunting riffs.

I will take you through each riff of the song in the order that each appears in the song. I will be using my 6-string acoustic for the entire lesson. James is using a 6 string and the riffs I am demonstrating are more closely based on what he is playing.

Kirk uses a 12-string guitar, even for his solo. I will still teach his solo note-for-note, but do so on a 6-string.

Have fun learning this great acoustic version of "All Within My Hands"! Carl...

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Sunday, September 13, 2020

Somebody Get Me A Doctor Guitar Lesson – Van Halen

To download the TAB referred to in the solo section of the video lesson, click here

In this Somebody Get Me A Doctor Guitar Lesson video, I will show you how to play this great classic from Van Halen II.

The tuning is Eb standard tuning. That is, starting from the 6th string, Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb.

The song starts with a great riff by Eddie. It is not incredibly hard to play but is a lot of fun. This riff is also used during the chorus.

The verse uses some pretty interesting chords along with a cool half-harmonic pedal underneath. I will explain that in the lesson. 🙂

The bridge is definitely the hardest riff of the song. It not only uses some pretty fast strumming, but also requires you to do some volumes swells with your volume knob as well. You can make those volume swells a bit easier using a volume pedal, but Eddie used the volume knob on his guitar.

I will also take you through Eddie's solo note-for-note. Quick note about the solo. The second lick that I teach in the video lesson, is actually performed by Eddie in the 6th position. It will be the exact same notes, just in a different area of the fretboard. I have included a TAB here of that very lick properly notated in the correct position.

Have fun with yet another classic from Eddie and the gang! Carl...

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Oasis - Half The World Away guitar lesson

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Thursday, September 10, 2020

Warmup tip!

It seems that the most common warmup is either chromatic, or some sort of spider exercise. I get that they are beneficial to some degree. However, I think that there’s more musical ways to get this type of warmup in!

One scale I like is whole half, or half whole diminished scale. Doing 4 notes per string gives you that stretch. You can shift this so the whole note stretch falls between different fingers.

You can explore other scales doing four notes per string. You’ll find that these stretches occur naturally in most scales and you don’t need to create a non musical sounding scale to get a warmup in. Meanwhile you are becoming more familiar with a scale, or fainting a new perspective on a scale you already know.

Let me know what you guys think!

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Friday, September 4, 2020

Beginner tips

Hey,

This has probably been asked before, but I'm starting to play and I was just wondering what are the best tips you guys received when you were beginning, besides not giving up of course!
Every tip is welcome, just very excited to finally start this!

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Thursday, September 3, 2020

My new strap is too thick for my strap locks

I just bought a nice handmade leather strap for my acoustic. The leather was pretty rigid but after a bit of work I managed to get it onto the strap buttons.

It sits pretty snug on the buttons and I can’t my clip on strap locks over it. I’m a nervous guy at the best of the times and I don’t think I’ll be comfortable using it unless I know it’s secure.

Is it possible to flatten the ends of the strap somehow? I’ve had a go at hammering them a bit to try to flatten them out but I’m not sure that’s having any effect.

I’m not that bothered about how it might look as it’s just the very ends of the straps that no one will really see anyway.

I’m trying to use Daddario Dual Locks. The little plastic ones that also hold your cable in place.

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Holding guitar

So when I hold the guitar I have watched videos on how to do it correctly but it seems like my strumming hand is always uncomfortable. Like ...