Claude Johnson

String Bending: 10 Cool Ways To Bend Your Guitar Strings

  Today’s video is called“10 Cool Ways to Bend Your Guitar Strings”. Please watch and see if you know someor all of these techniques! BTW, People have been asking a lot about my amp sound lately… I’ve beenusing a killer new practice amp which I actually mic’d up properly in thisvideo today. Check it out

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Claude Johnson

How to Play Pentatonic Licks with Position Shifting

Hey, guys. Claude Johnson from guitarcontrol.com. How’s it going? Today I want to show you a little blues lick that involves position shifting and show you guys how you can use this to create some of your own licks. So here’s the lick. So let’s zoom-in on the fretboard and I’ll show you what I’m

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Claude Johnson

How to Create Cool Guitar Sounds by Moving Chord Tones

Here’s a cool little lesson that shows you how you can take the simplest of all chords – the 2 note power chord, and create new sounds by moving around one of the notes. Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR ULTIMATE BEGINNER GUITAR COURSE All right, so let’s start off with a G power chord. I’ve got

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Claude Johnson

How to Do Legato Guitar Exercise For Speed Building

Here’s a little follow up to yesterday’s legato lesson.   The idea is similar to yesterday: Create some cool sounds using linear motion in the major scale with a fast tempo and all hammer-ons and pull-offs. Today, we throw in an additional twist: We are SLIDING with our first finger. This seems to be a

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Claude Johnson

Legato Lick – Guitar Exercise w/ Tabs and Video

Hi guitar friends! Many guitarists believe that usinghammer-ons and pull-offs are easierthan picking every note. Well, that’s only half true. When you’re not picking, your lefthand has to do all the work… Thegood news is that you can reallybuild up some ferocious chops ifyou work on it. You can really build some ferocious chops working

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Claude Johnson

How to Use 6th Intervals In Melodic Guitar Solo

I’ve been so busy getting the word out about BOOGIE BLUES MAGIC that it’s been a bit since I filmed a lesson for y’all… Well I have a cool one today. It’s using a trick that’s used all the time in blues guitar, but I’ll show you how you can use it in a new

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Claude Johnson

Claude at NAMM 2013

Ok, so I’m at NAMM, (National Association of Music Merchants) Convention in Anaheim, California. If you don’t know what that is, it’s pretty much the biggest music convention in the world. Technically, there was one in Germany that used to be bigger, but whatever… Its still FREAKING HUGE… Ok, so I mentioned before that I’m

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Claude Johnson

Simple Shred Pattern – Box Pattern

This one is one of the more advanced because it gets into the “Shred Speed Zone”. Still, the patterns are very simple and you can play slower and still have a cool effect. I’ll have more “Boogie Blues Magic” for you next time. Without further ado, check out my “Simple Shred Pattern Lesson”. Hey, guys

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Claude Johnson

How to Play an Eric Johnson Lick – Hexatonic Scale Lick

One thing I never heard people talking about is Hexatonic scales, Usually we either deal with pentatonics (5 notes), or diatonics (7 notes), but hexatonics fall right in the middle. You can think of it as either a diatonic minus 1 note, or a pentatonic with 1 extra note. This particular hextaonic scale that I’m

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